Provincial Court Proceedings, 1677/8.    367

        unto the said Charles James Goods and Mrchandizes a particular Liber N N
        whereof is here in Court produced amounting in the whole to the
        sume of three thousand three hundred & twelve pds of tobacco, the
        said Charles in consideracon thereof the said fifth day of July in the
        yeare aforesaid upon himselfe did assume & to the said Nath: Styles
        did faithfully promise, that he the said Charles the aforesaid Sume
        of three thousand three hundred & twelve pds of tobacco to the said
        Nathaniel Styles would conveniently pay Notwithstanding wch the
        said Charles James the said sume of three thousand three hundred
        & twelve pds of tobacco to him the said Nathaniel Styles in his life
        tyme nor to them the said Henry Stocket & James Stavely to whom
        Letters of Admcon was granted hath not paid or satisfied although
        often thereunto required, but the same to pay or satisfie hath denyed
        and refused & still doth deny & refuse Whereupon the said Henry &
        James say they are damnified & have losse to the Value of six thou
        sand pds of tobacco & thereupon they bring their suite.
          And the said Charles James by Christopher Rousby his Attorny
        cometh & defendeth the force & injury when &c & praycth liberty to
        imparle hereunto untill next Provinciall Court & itt is granted unto
        him the same day is given to the plaintiffes 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
        Dni 1678. came the said plaintiffes by their Attorney aforesaid, &
        offered themselves agt the said Charles James in the plea afore
        said but the said Charles came not but made default. Therefore itt
        is considered by the Court here that the said Henry Stocket & James 598
        Stavely Adrs as aforesaid recover agt the said Charles James as well
        the sume of two thousand eight hundred ninety two pds of tob the
        ballance of the accompt in the Declaracon menconed As also five hun
        dred sixty eight pounds of tobacco costs of suite

        Wm Jones Thomas Folkes late of Dorchister County was At
          agt tached to answer unto Wm Jones Marryner in a plea
        Tho: Folkes of trespas upon the case
                   And whereupon the said Wm by John Rousby his
        Attorney saith that whereas the said Thomas the nineteenth day of
        Novembr in the second yeare of the Dominion of the right Honble
        Charles &c bought had & received of the said Wm divers Goods
        Wares & Mrchandizes a particuler whereof is here in Court brought
        amounting in the whole to the sume of foure thousand seven hun
        dred & six pounds of tobacco In consideracon whereof the said
        Thomas did assume upon himselfe & to the said Wm faithfully
        promise that he the said Thomas the said sume of foure thousand
        seven hundred & six pits of tobacco to him the said Wm when there-
        unto required would well & truely pay & satisfie Notwthstanding the
        said Thomas craftily deviseing & intending him the said Wm in this