326       Provincial Court Proceedings, 1677/8.

             Liber N N  above written obligation is such, that if the above bounden John
                    Quigley Peter Sayer & John Brooke they or any of them their or
                    any of their heyres Exrs Admrs or assignes or any of them shall & doe
                    well & truely pay or cause to be well & truely paid unto the above
                    named James Stavely or to his certaine Attorney his Exrs Adrs or
                    assignes the full sume & just quantity of six thousand nine hundred
                    twenty two pounds of good sound & every way well condiconed
                    Mrchantable tobacco in caske upon the twentieth day of Octobr next
                    ensueing the day of the date hereof in some convenient place in
                    Taihot County aforesaid within one Mile of some convenient land
                    ing place without any fraud or further delay That then this pTsent
                    above written obligacon shall be void & of none effect Otherwise to
                p. 562  stand & remaine in full power force & vertue Which being read &
                    heard the said John Brooke by his Attorney aforesaid, & prayeth
                    liberty to imparle hereunto untill next Court & itt is granted unto
                    him, the same day is given to the plaintiffe also
                     Now here att this day to witt the ffifteenth day of June in the
                    third yeare of the Dominion of Charles Lord Baltemore &c Annoq
                    Doni 1678. came the said James Stavely by his Attorney aforesaid &
                    offered himselfe agt the said John Brooke in the plea aforesaid, but
                    the said John came not but made default therefore itt is considered
                    by the Court here, that the said James Stavely recover agt the said
                    John Brooke the Sume of thirteen thousand three hundred forty &
                    foure pounds of tobacco debt And also five hundred & Sixty pounds
                    of tobacco costs of suite

                    James Stavely Memorandum that the twelfth day of ffebruary in
                      agt the third yeare of the Dominion of the right Honble
                  Peter Sayer Charles absolute Lord & ProprY &c in the yeare of
                              our Lord God 1677 came here in Court James
                    Stavely by George Parker his Attorney & exhibitted to the Justices
                    here in Court his certaine bill agt Peter Sayer genti one of the At
                    torneys of this Court prsent here in Court in his proper person of a
                    plea that he render unto him the sume of Thirteen thousand three
                    hundred forty & foure pounds of good sound & every way well
                    condiconed Mrchantable tobacco in cask which he oweth him &
                    unjustly detaineth
                     And whereupon the said James Stavely by George Parker his
                    Attorney, saith, that whereas the said Peter Sayer the one & twen
                    tieth day of April in the yeare of our Lord God one thousand six
                    hundred seventy & seven by his certaine bond or writeing obligatory
                    Sealed with the Seale of him the said Peter Sayer & here in Court
                    produced whose date is the day & yeare abovesaid, was holden &
                    firmly bound to James Stavely of Cecil County Wchant in the full
                    sume & just quantity of thirteen thousand three hundred forty &
                    foure pounds of good sound & every way well condiconed Mrchant