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          And the said Thomas Price by Robert Ridgely his Attorney comes Liber N N
        & defends the force & injury when &c and prayeth liberty to imparle
        hereto 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 plaintiffes by their Attorney aforesaid, &
        offered themselves agt the said Thomas Price 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 Jno & Matthew Earickson
        Admrs as aforesaid recover agt the said Thomas Price the said sume
        of two thousand two hundred & forty pounds of tobacco debt As also
                     pounds of tobacco costs of suite.

        Charles Howell Robert Hilton late of Talbot County Chirurgion
            agt otherwise called Robert Hilton of Talbot County
      Robert Hilton    in the Province of Maryland was Sumoned to
                   Answer unto Charles Howell of a plea that he
        render unto him foure thousand pounds of Mrchantable tobacco
        which to him he oweth & unjustly detaineth
          And whereupon the said Charles by Robert Ridgely his Attorney
        saith, that whereas the said Robert the thirteenth day of January
        One thousand six hundred seventy six by his certaine writeing
        Obligatory sealed with the Seale of him the said Robert & here in p.
        Court produced whose date is the day & yeare aforesaid, did acknowl
        edge to be holden & stand firmly bound unto the said Charles in foure
        thousand pounds of Mrchantable tobacco & cask or the Value thereof
        in that part of Alexander Rayes Estate which is due to the said
        Robert as his wives porcon, he the said Robert not to dispose of any
        of the Estate till the said Charles is paid As also the said Charles
        was to give for the said Goods as much as another will give Not
        withstanding which the said Robert the said foure thousand pounds
        of tobacco nor the Value thereof in that part of Alexander Rayes
        Estate which was due to the said Robert as his wives porcon though
        often thereunto required according to the tenor of the said writing
        Obligatory hath not paid or satisfied, but the same to pay or satisfie
        hath & yet doth refuse & deny, whereupon the said Charles saith he is
        damnified & hath losse to the Value of six thousand pounds of tobacco
        & thereupon he produceth his suite
          And the said Robert Hilton by Kenelm Cheseldyn 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 twelfth day of April in the third
        yeare of the Dominion of Charles Lord Baltemore &c Anoq3 Doni
        1678. came the said Charles Howell by his Attorney aforesaid &