286      Provincial Court Proceedings, 1677/8.

             Liber N N  the thirteenth day of May next ensueing in One thousand six hun
                    dred seventy five, & the said Goods Chattells & debts doe well & truely
                    Administer vizt doe pay the debts of the deceased which he did owe
                    att the tyme of his decease so farr forth as the Goods Chattels &
                    debts will extend & the Law will charge And further make or cause
                    to be made a true & just accompt of & upon the said Administracon
                    within twelve months if he shall be thereunto lawfully called, & such
                    part or portion of the said Goods Chattells & debts which shall be
                    remaineing upon the said accompt examined & adjudged by the
                    Judge appointed for the tyme being for probate of Wills, & shall
                    distribute & dispose of as by the said Judge shall be lymitted &
                    appointed And lastly doe att all & every tyme & tymes hereafter
                    cleerly acquitt discharge & save harmlesse the said Lord Propry & his
                    Lordpps said Judge & all other Officers & Ministers from all persons
                p. 529  Haveing or prtcnding to have any right title or interest of in & to
                    the said Goods Chattells & debts Then this prsent Obligacon to be
                    void & of none effect Otherwise the same to stand & remaine in full
                    force & vertue in the Law Which being read & heard the said Thomas
                    Todd by his said Attorney saith that he hath nothing to say in barr
                    of the plaintiffes action, but that the said Lord Propry should recover
                    agt him as Ext as aforesaid the said sume of thirty thousand pounds
                    of tobacco Therefore itt is considered by the Court here this day to
                    witt the thirteenth day of April in the third yeare of his Lordpps
                    Dominion &c Annoq Doni 1678. that the said Lord Propry recover
                    agt the Estate of the said Thomas Todd deceased the said sume of
                    thirty thousand pounds of tobacco the debt aforesaid for that the
                    said Obligation is forfeited as aforesaid
                      Ordered by the Court, that what Judgemts are obtained in this
                    Court agt the Estate of Capt Thomas Carleton deceased, be paid out
                    of the Judgemts obtained by the Lord ProprY agt Arthur Carleton
                    Admr of the Goods & Chattells of the said Thomas Carleton, Charles
                    James & Thomas Todd Exr of the last Will & testamt of the said
                    Tho:     Todd deceased, upon forfeiture of the bond of Administracon.

                    April 13th 1678.
                      Henry Bonner one of the Attorneys of this Court did acknowledge
                    in open Court to have received of the Honble Philip Calvert Esqr the
                    sume of Eight hundred pounds of tobacco in part of satisfaction of
                    his bill for two thousand five hundred pounds of tobacco payable to
                    Edwa Erbery & Compa


                    April 13th 1679
                    Tho:     Sprigg In Chancery
                      agt     Itt is the Judgemt of the Court here that the Decree
                    Tho:     Trueman be Inrolled.