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         dred & forty pds of tob being all ready paid Therefore itt is con- Liber N N
         sidered by the Court here, that the said Henry Exon recover agt
         the said Vincent Mansfield the sume of two thousand three hundred
         & sixty pds of tob debt And also six hundred pds of tob costs of
         suite

        John Harris George Gunnell late of Baltemore County otherwise p. 575
            agt called Geo: Gunnell of Cecil County in the Prov
      George Gunnell    ince of Maryland genti was Sumoned to answer
                   unto John Harris of a plea that he rendr unto him
         twelve thousand five hundred pounds of tob which to him he oweth
         & unjustly detaineth
          And whereupon the said John by Robert Carvile his Attorney
         saith, that whereas the said George upon the tenth day of April in
         the yeare of our Lord One thousand six hundred seventy six by
         his certaine bill or writeing obligatory sealed with the Seale of him
         the said George & here in Court produced whose date is the day &
         yeare abovesaid, did confesse & acknowledge himselfe to owe & stand
         indebted to the said John in the full Sume of twelve thousand five
         hundred pds of good sound and Mrchantable tobacco & cask to be
         paid to the said John convenient in Cecil County upon all demands
         Yet the said George the said sume of twelve thousand five hundred
         pounds of tobacco to him the said John according to the tenor of the
         said bill though often thereunto requested hath not paid or satisfied,
         but the same to pay doth deny to the dathage of the said John Six
         teene thousand pds of tobacco & thereupon he bringeth his suite
          And the said George by Kenelm Cheseldyn his Attorney cometh &
         denyeth 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 plaintiffe 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 Anoq
         Doni 1678. came the said John Harris by his Attorney aforesaid &
         offered himselfe agt the said George Gunnell in the plea aforesaid,
         but the said George came not but made default, therefore itt is con
         sidered by the Court here that the said John Harris recover agt the
         said Geo: Gunnell as well the sume of twelve thousand five hundred
         pds of tobacco debt As also five hundred eighty eight pds of tobacco
         costs of suite

        Robert Peca Memorandum that the twentieth day of Decembr in
            agt the second yeare of the Dominion of Charles &c came
      Henry Stocket     Robert Peca by Robert Carvile his Attorny before
                   the Honble Philip Calvert Esqr Chancelour of this
         Province & prayed his Lopps Writt of Error to him the said Robert
         Peca to be granted to the Justices of his Lopps County Court of Ann