362       Provincial Court Proceedings, 1677/8.

            Liber N N  well & truely content & pay And the said Stephen in fact saith, that
                   the said John in his life tyme did procure buy & cause to be delivered
                   to the said Philip the said thirty barrells of Monadoes beer And for
                   the same the said John in his life tyme to the said Marke Cordea did
                   pay six thousand pds of tobacco & cask Notwithstanding which the
                   said Philip his promise & assumpcoñ so as aforesaid made little
                   reguarding but deviseing & fraudulently intending him the said John
                   Bailey of the said six thousand pounds of tobacco so as aforesaid
                   disbursed for him to deceive & defraud, the said sume to him the said
                   John Bailey in his life tyme nor to the said Stephen since his death
                   to whom the Adcon of all & singuler the goods Chattells & Creditts
                   of the said John since his death hath bin comitted hath not paid,
                   but the same to pay hath denyed & gainesaid, & the same to pay as
                   yet doth deny & gainsay in retardacon of the Admcon of the said
                   John & to the damage of the said Stephen Eight thousand pds of
                   tobacco & thereupon he produceth his suite And the said Stephen
                   bringeth into Court here the Letters of Admeon to him granted upon
                   the Estate of the said John Bailey, that itt may appeare to the Court
                   here that of the Estate of the said John he hath the Admcon
                    And the said Philip Lynes by Christopher Rousby his Attorney
                   cometh & defendeth the force & injury when &c and prayeth licence
                   to imparle hereunto untill next Provinciall Court & itt is granted
                   unto him the same day is given to the plaintiffe also.
                    Now here att this day to witt the seventeenth 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 Philip by his said Attorney saith that he the said Stephen his
                   accon aforesaid agt him the said Philip ought not to have, because
                   he saith, that he the said Philip is not guilty of trespas aforesaid
                   by the said plaintiffe in his said declaracon in manner & forme a fore
                   said imposed upon him the said Philip, & of this he putts himselfe
                   upon the Countrey, & the said Plaintiffe likewise. Whereupon itt
                   is comanded the Sheriffe of St Maryes County that he cause to come
                   here twelve &c by whom &c who neither &c to recognize &c because
                   as well &c Att which said seventeenth day of June in the yeare afore
                   said came the said parties by their Attorneys aforesaid And the
                   Jurors impannelled being called likewise came to witt Gilbert Turber
                   vile, Wm Wells, Edward Williams, Tho: Courtney, Tho: Hinton,
                   Cornelius Johnson, John Cobreath, Abraham Clarke, James Veitch,
                   Wm Hitchcock, Tho: Robison & Jacob Loton who being elected
               p.  tryed & sworn To say the truth in the prmisses upon their Oaths
                   doe say We finde for the plaintiffe foure thousand Eight hundred
                   ninety foure pds of tob Therefore itt is granted by the Court here
                   that the said Stephen Murty Adr as aforesaid recover agt the said
                   Philip Lynes as well the sume of foure thousand Eight hundred
                   ninety foure pds of tobacco damages by the Jurors aforesaid in forme