Provincial Court Proceedings, 1677/8.    315

        Tho: Legg John Edmondson late of Talbot County Mrchant Liber N N
          agt was Sumoned to Answer unto Thomas Legg in a
      Jno Edmondson    plea that he render unto him his reasonable accompt
                   of the tyme that he was the receiver of the Goods
       Merchandize & tobacco of him the said Thomas.
          And whereupon the said Thomas by Christopher Rousby his At
        torney saith, that whereas the said John was Receiver of the Goods
        Mrchandize & tobacco of him the said Thomas from the twenty
        seventh day of August in the yeare of our Lord One thousand six
        hundred seventy foure & by the first day of ffebruary in the yeare
        of our Lord One thousand six hundred seventy seven had received
        by the hands of him the said Tho: of the Goods & Mrchandize of
        him the said Thomas to the Value of One hundred forty foure
        pounds of sterling money a particular whereof is Here in Court pro- p. 552
        duced, to the end that he the said John should trade & Mrchandize
        with the said Goods for the benifitt accompt & profit of him the said
        Thomas, & a reasonable accompt thereof to render when he should
        be thereunto required Nevertheles the aforesaid John although often
        thereunto required the same reasonable accompt to the said Thomas
        hath not as yet rendred, but the same to render hath denyed & still
        doth deny, whereupon he the said Thomas saith he is damnified &
        hath losse to the Value of fifty thousand pds of tob & thereupon he
        brings his suite.
          And the said John Edmondson by Robert Ridgely his Attorney
        cometh & defendeth the force & injury when &c & prayeth liberty to
        imparle hereunto untill next Court & itt is granted unto him, the
        same day is given to the said Thomas Legg also.
          Now here att this day to witt the Eleventh day of June in the
        third yeare of the Dominion of Charles Lord Baltemore &c Anoq
        Doni 1678. came the said parties by their Attorneys aforesaid, &
        the said Jno Edmondson by his said Attorney saith, that he cannot
        deny the aforesaid action of the aforesaid plaintiffe neither but that
        he was the Receiver of the Goods Mrchandizes & tobacco of him the
        said Thomas by the tyme aforesaid in the forme in which the said
        plaintiffe hath above declared agt him, & further the said Defendt
        saith that he is ready to accompt thereof Therefore itt is considered
        by the Court here that Auditors be appointed to audite & state the
        accompts between the said Thomas Legg & John Edmondson & doe
        hereby ordT & appoint John Darnall & Richard Keene genti to audite &
        state the same, & to make report Thereof att the next Provinciall
        Court

       Robert Edmonds John Atkey late of Calvert County was Attached
           agt to answer unto Robert Edmonds of a plea that
        John Atkeyhe render unto him his reasonable accompt of the
        tyme wherein he was receiuer of the Goods Mrchan
       dizes & tobacco of the said Robert