Provincial Court Proceedings, 1677/8.    299

        Ridgely his Attorney complaineth that whereas the said Eliza Greene Liber N N
        the tenth day of June One thousand six hundred Seventy six being
        possessed of a certaine woman Servant named Eliza Martindale, in
        consideracon that the said Dennis would buy of her the said Servant,
        & pay unto her the said Green for the said Servant the sume of Eight
        hundred pounds of tobacco, the said Green would warrant the said
        woman servant to the said Dennis to serve him Eighteen months
        from thence fully to be compleat & ended mortality excepted And the
        said Dennis in fact saith, that trusting to the warranty of the said
        Eliza Green of the said woman Servant to serve him the said Dennis
        Eighteenth months, he the said Dennis her the said Green two hogs-
        heads of tobacco containing eight hundred pounds of neat tobacco
        for the said Servant did well & truely pay, And the said Dennis
        further in fact saith, that on the day of January then next following
        itt appearing to the Honble Philip Calvert Esqr Chancelour of this
        Province, that the said Eliza Martindale was free, & ought not for
        any reason that could be shewed to the said Chancelour to be a
        Servant, & therefore the said Chancelour the same day of January
        aforesaid her the said Eliza Martindale from the service of him the
        said Dennis dismissed & sett free Yet the aforesaid Eliza Green al
        though often thereunto required hath refused to warrant the said
        Servant to the said Dennis for the terme aforesaid or to make him
        satisfaction for the same, to the damage of the said Dennis two
        thousand pits of tob, and thereupon he bringeth his suite
         And the said Eliza by Robert Carvile her Attorney cometh & de
        fendeth 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 tenth day of April in the third
        yeare of the Dominion of Charles Lord Baltemore &c Annoq3 Doni
        1678. came the said parties by their Attorneys aforesaid And the p. 540
        said Elizabeth saith, that she is in no wise guilty of the prmisses
        above by the said Dennis & imposed & upon her, & of this she putts
        herselfe upon the Countrey. Whereupon the said Dennis said, that
        he would make noe farther prosecution agt the said Eliza Green in
        the plea aforesaid, therefore itt is considered that a nonsuite be
        awarded agt him And that the said Deft recover agt the said plain
        tiffe the sume of One thousand & seven pds of tobacco for her costs
        & charges by her about her defence in this behalf e laid out & expended
        And the said Dennis in mercy for his false claime

       Benjamin Rozer Henry Bonner of Charles County genti was Sum
           agt -oned to answer unto Benjamin Rozer Esqr in a
     Henry Bonner  plea that he render unto him seven thousand
                   pounds of tobacco which to him he oweth & un
                   justly detaineth