338      Provincial Court Proceedings, 1677/8.

           Liber N N   the decease of the said George & while she was sole And the said
                   Robert since the intermarriage betwixt him the said Robert & the said
                   Ann, the said sume of foure thousand two hundred & fifty pds of
                   tobacco unto the said Samuell Cock though often thereunto required
                   have not paid, nor any of them hath paid, but the same to pay have
                   altogether refused And the said Robert & Ann still doe refuse,
                   whereupon he the said Samuell Cock saith he is the Worse & hath
                   losse to the Value of Eight thousand pounds of tob & thereupon he
                   brings his suite
                     And the said Robert Graham & Ann his wife by William Wil
                   liams his Attorney cometh & defendeth the force & injury when &c
                   and prayeth liberty to imparle hereunto untill next Provinciall Court
                   & itt is granted unto them, the same day is given to the plaintiffe also
                     Now here att this day to witt the twelfth day of June in the third
                   yeare of the Dominion of Charles Lord Baltemore &c Annoq Doni
                   1678. came the said parties by their Attorney & aforesd & the said
                   Robert & Ann by their said Attorney say, that as to foure thousand
                   pounds of tobacco part of the said sume of foure thousand two
                   hundred & fifty pounds they are content that judgemt passe agt the
                   Estate of the said George Macall for the same, the remainder of
                   the said debt being two hundred fifty pounds of tob being allready
                   satisfied & paid Therefore itt is considered by the Court here that
                   the said Samuel Cock recover agt the Estate of the said George
                   Macall the said sume of foure thousand pds of tob debt As also
                   Seven hundred & Eighteene pds of tob costs of suite

                   Philip Lynes Benjamin Hunton & George Gunnell both of
                      agt St Maryes County gentt were Sumoned to Answer
                   Benja Hunton & unto Philip Lynes of a plea that they render unto
                   Geo: Gunnell him One thousand six hundred fifty three pds of
                               tob & cask which to him they owe & unjustly
                               detaine
                     And whereupon the said Philip Lynes by Christopher Rousby his
                   Attorney saith, that whereas the said Benjamin Hunton & George
                   Gunnell the first day of September Anno Doni One thousand six
                   hundred seventy three by their certaine writeing obligatory Sealed
                   with the Seales of them The said Benjamin & George here in Court
                   produced whose date is the same day & yeare above written, did
                   acknowledge themselves to owe & stand justly indebted unto the
               p. 573  said Philip Lynes In the full & just quantity of One thousand six
                   hundred fifty three pds of good sound Mrchantable leafe tobacco &
                   cask to be paid to the said Philip Lynes his heyres Exrs AdrS assignes
                   or certaine Attorney att or before the tenth day of October next
                   ensueing the date of those prsents convenient by the water side in
                   St Maryes County To which payment well & truely to be made &
                   done they did binde themselves & either of them & the heyres Exrs &