294      Provincial Court Proceedings, 1677/8.

             Liber N N offered himselfe against the said Robert Hilton in the plea aforesaid
                    but the said Robert came not but made default Therefore itt is con
                    sidered by the Court here, that the said Charles Howell recover agt
                    the said Robert Hilton the said sume of foure thousand pounds of
                    tob debt As also flue hundred forty foure pds of tob costs of suite.

                  Charlc3 Howell Peter Dcnnio late of Talbot County planter was At
                       agt tached to Answer unto Charles Howell Chirurgion
                    Peter Dennis of a plea of trespas upon the case
                                And whereupon the said Charles by Robert
                    Ridgely his Attorney complaineth, that whereas the said Peter Den
                    nis being entrusted with the management of the Estate of Richard
                    Carter of Talbot County gentt, the said Richard being then out of
                    this Province, & one of the Servants of the said Richard by name
                    ffrancis Story (then under the charge & governmt of the said Peter)
                    haveing a Virulent coroded Ulcer in his legg, & another in his arm,
                    & a complicated distemper regnant in his body, which afforded a
                    certaine malevolent & Venemous humour to feed the said ulcerous
                    sores And the said Peter haveing putt the said ffrancis in for a share
                    in a certaine cropp of tobacco & corne And the said ffrancis by rea
                    son of the Ulcers & distempers aforesaid being not able to worke &
                    labour in the same, the said Peter the sixth day of June One thou
                    sand six hundred seventy six knowing the said Charles to be a
                    Chirurgion, & to use & practice the same art of a Chirurgion in Tal
                    bot County aforesaid in consideracon that the said Charles him the
                    said ffrancis would attend & the sores of him the said ffrancis would
                    dress & endeavour to heale & cure, & to the same would apply such
                    meanes druggs Unguents Emplasiters & remedyes for the cureing
                    of the said sores & distemper as to him the said Charles should seem
                    meet, & giveing the said ffrancis due attendance for applying &
                    administring of the same, he the said Peter did assume upon him-
                p. 536 selfe & to the said Charles did faithfully promise that he the Said
                    Peter him the said Charles for his medicaments & paines in & about
                    the same sores by him the said Charles to be expended & used what
                    for the same he should reasonably deserve would well & truely con
                    tent & pay when thereunto required And the said Charles in fact
                    saith, that trusting to the promise & assumption of him the said Peter
                    to him the said Charles so as aforesaid made, he the said Charles
                    him the said ffrancis from the said sixth day of June in the yeare
                    aforesaid untill the thirteenth day of January then next following
                    did well & truely attend att tymes seasonable & convenient, & as
                    often as occasion did require, by all which tyme aforesaid he the
                    said Charles the sores of him the said ffrancis with divers plaistors
                    & Unguents did dresse, & to him inwardly did administer severall
                    druggs potions & phisick for the removeing & carrying of the malevo
                    lent & venomous humours aforesaid that the aforesaid Virulent &