290       Provincial Court Proceedings, 1677/8.

             Liber N N pay to the damage of the said Joshua foure thousand pounds of
                    tobacco & thereupon he bringeth his suite.
                     And the said Thomas Clipsham by Robert Carvile his Attorney
                    cometh & defendeth the force & injury when &c And prayeth liberty
                    to imparle hereunto untill next Court & itt is granted unto him, the
                    same day is given to both parties
                     Now here att this day to witt the Eleventh day of April in the
                    third yeare of the Dominion of Charles Lord Baltemore &c Annocp
                    Doni 1678. came the said Joshua Doyne by his Attorney aforesaid
                    & offered himselfe against the said Thomas in the plea aforesaid,
                    but the said Thomas came not but made default, therefore itt is con
                    sidered by the Court here that the said Joshua Doyne recover agt
                    the Estate of the said Charles Gregory the aforesaid debt of three
                    thousand three hundred & fifty pounds of tobacco. As also five
                    hundred forty foure pounds of tobacco costs of suite.
                    James Stavely &   Samuell Hatton late of Talbot County planter
                    Henry Stocket Adrs     otherwise called Samuell Hatton of the Prov
                    Tho: Salmonince of Maryland Mrchant was Sumoned to
                       agtanswer unto James Stavely & Henry Stocket
                    Samuell Hatton    gentt Admrs of all & singuler the Goods Chat
                    tels & Creditts which were of Thomas Salmon
                    deceased of a plea that he render unto them the just & full sume of
                    three thousand seven hundred seventy & foure pounds of tobacco
                    which from them he unjustly detaineth.
                     And whereupon the said James & Henry by Robert Ridgely their
                    Attorney say that whereas the said Samuell the twenty seventh day
                    of August One thousand six hundred seventy three by his certaine
                    bill Obligatory Sealed with the Seale of the said Samuell & here in
                    Court produced whose date is the day & yeare aforesaid, did binde
                    himselfe his heyres Exrs & Admrs to pay or cause to be paid unto
                    the said Thomas Salmon or to his heyres Exrs Adrs or assignes the
                    just & full sume of three thousand seven hundred seventy foure pds
                    of tobacco qualified according to Act of Assembly & payable upon
                    all demands after the tenth day of Octobr next ensueing the date of
                    the same bill att some convenient place in Baltemore County afore
                    said Notwithstanding which the said Samuell the said sume of three
                    thousand seven hundred seventy foure pounds of tobacco to him
                    the said Thomas in his life tyme nor to the said James & Henry
                    since his death (to whom Admcon of all & singuler the Goods Chat
                    tels rights & Creditts which were of the said Thomas Salmon in his
                    life tyme since his death was comitted) according to the tenor of the
                    said bill Obligatory although often thereunto required hath not paid
                    or satisfied but the same to pay or satisfie hath denyed & as yet doe
                    deny in retardacon of the Admcon of the said James & Henry of the
                    Estate of the said Thomas, whereupon the said James & Henry say