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        coroded ulcers did feed by reason whereof the inward distemper of Liber N N
        the said ffrancis he altoger removed & cured, & the Ulcerous sore in
        his arme aforesaid he healed upp & perfectly made whole, & the sore
        in his legg aforesaid brought to that hopefull condition, that the
        said ffrancis in the cropp aforesaid did labour in & attend, which
        said meanes druggs unguents Emplaisters & Phisick are expressed &
        to the Court here produced in a particuler thereof hereunto an
        nexed And the said Charles in fact further saith, that for the same
        meanes druggs Unguents Emplaisters Phisick skill cuning & attend
        ance of the said ffrancis in & about the said sores he doth reasonably
        deserve the sume of three thousand pounds of tobacco Notwithstand
        ing which the said Peter Dennis his promise & assumpcon so as afore
        said made not reguarding but deviseing & fraudulently intending
        him the said Charles of the said three thousand pounds of tobacco
        to deceive & defraud the said Peter him the said Charles the said
        sume though often thereunto required according to his promise afore
        said hath not paid or given any satisfaction for the same, but the
        same to pay or satisfle hath refused & denyed & as yet doth refuse &
        deny to the damage of the said Charles three thousand pounds of
        tobacco & thereupon he produceth his suite
          And the said Peter Dennis by Kenelm Cheseldyn his Attorney
        cometh & defendeth the force & injury when &c and prayeth liberty
        to imparle hereunto until 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 Anncxp
        Doni 1678 came the said Charles Howell by his Attorney aforesaid,
        & offered himselfe agst the said Peter Dennis in the plea aforesaid,
        but the said Peter came not but made default, therefore itt is con
        sidered by the Court here that the said Charles Howell recover agt
        the said Peter Dennis the sume of three thousand pds of tobacco
        damages occasioned by the trespas aforesaid As also five hundred
        forty foure pds of tob costs of suite

        Christopher Hassell Richard Nash late of Cecil County in the Prov
           agt ince of Maryland planter otherwise called Rich
        Richd Nashard Nash in Cecil County was Sumoned to
        answer unto Christopher Hassell of a plea that
        he render unto him the full & just Sume of two thousand nine hun
        dred sixty & foure pounds of good sound Mrchantable tobacco &
        cask which he oweth & unjustly detaineth.
          And whereupon the said Christopher Hassell by George Parker p. 537
        his Attorney saith, that whereas the said Richard Nash the twenty
        seventh day of April One thousand six hundred seventy & six by
        his certaine bill Obligatory sealed with the Seale of him the said
        Richard Nash & here in Court produced whose date is the day & yeare