334      Provincial Court Proceedings, 1677/8.

            Liber N N  self e his heyres Exrs Admrs firmly by those prsents Notwithstanding
                    which the said Solomon the said sume of two thousand two hun
                    dred twenty & foure pounds of tobacco to the said Henry Stocket &
                    Ja:     Stavely or either of them hath not paid although often there-
                    unto required, but the same to pay doth altogether deny & refuse,
                    whereupon the said Henry Stocket & James Stavely say that they are
                    damnified & have losse to the Value of foure thousand pounds of
                p. 569 tobacco, & thereupon they bring their suite
                     And the said Solomon Thomas by Robert Carvile his Attorney
                    cometh & defendeth 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 the plaintiffes also.
                     Now here att this day to witt the fifteenth day of June in the
                    third yeare of the Dominion of Charles Lord Baltemore &c Annoq
                    Doni 1678. came the said parties by their Attorneys aforesaid And
                    the said Solomon by his said Attorney saith, that the said plaintiffes
                    their accon aforesaid agt him ought not to have, because he saith
                    that he the said Solomon Thomas att the tyme of his entring into
                    the said bill for the paymt of the said Sume of two thousand two
                    hundred twenty foure pounds of tobacco to the said Styles was
                    within the age of One & twenty yeares, & this he is ready to verifie, &
                    demands judgemt if the said Henry & James their accon aforesaid agt
                    him ought to have. And the said Henry & James refused to make
                    any further prosecution in this suite Whereupon a Non suite was
                    awarded agt them And the said plaintiffes in mercy for their false
                    claime

                   Wm Knott Edward Bleeke late of Baltemore County Mrchant
                     agt Admr of the Goods & Chattells of Joseph Seayre
                  Edwa Bleeke    Mrchant deceased was Attached to Answer unto Wm
                             Knott in a plea of trespas on the case
                     And whereupon the said Wm Knott by George Parker his At
                    torney complaineth, that whereas he the said Wm Knott the second
                    day of Septembr in the yeare of our Lord God One thousand six
                    hundred seventy five att Boston in New England did deliver by
                    way of Exchange to the said Joseph Seayre then being ifactor of the
                    said Edward Mycaiah Berry & Thomas Lane Mrchants in London
                    the sume of thirty pounds stert money or the Value thereof And
                    that the said Joseph Seayre did then & there invest & lay out the said
                    sume of thirty pounds in sundry Goods & Wchandizes & comodities
                    for the Province of Maryland, & Shipt the same on board the Shipp
                    Providence of Lyme John Bull Master then att Boston & bound for
                    Maryland aforesaid In consideracon whereof the said Joseph Seayre
                    did assume upon himselfe & to the said Wm Knott did faithfully prom
                    ise, that he the said Joseph Seayre the said sume of thirty pds stert
                    Money of England to him the said Wm Knott when thereunto re