374      Provincial Court Proceedings, 1677/8.

            Liber N N  heyres Exrs Admrs or assignes the full & just quantity of ffifteene
                   hundred fifty nine pds of good large & bright tobacco & caske att or
                   before the last of October next ensueing att some convenient place
                   in Cecil County That then this obligacon to be void & of none effect
                   Else to remaine in full force & vertue Which being read & heard the
                   said Robert by his Attorney aforesaid prayed liberty to imparle
                   hereunto untill next Provinciall Court & itt is granted unto him, the
                   same day is given to the plts 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 Annop
                   Doni 1678. came the said Henry & James by their Attorney afore
                   said, & offered themselves agt the said Robert Neave in the plea
                   aforesaid, but the said Robert came not but made default Therefore
                   itt is granted by the Court here that the said Henry Stocket & James
                   Stavely Admrs as aforesaid recover agt the said Robert Neave as well
                   the sume of three thousand one hundred & eighteen Pounds of to
                p. 604 bacco debt As also Six hundred & foure pds of tobacco costs of suite

                   Henry Stocket & Ja: Bennet Stayres & John Wilkinson late of
                   Stavely Adrs Styles Kent County planters otherwise called Bennet
                        agt       Stayres & John Wilkinson were Sumoned to
                   Bennet Stayres & Answer unto James Stavely & Henry Stocket
                   Jno Wilkinson Admrs of all & singuler the Goods Chattells
                                  rights & creditts which were of Nathaniel
                   Styles deceased of a plea that they render unto them the full & just
                   quantity of six thousand pds of tobacco & cask which from them
                   they unjustly detaine
                     And whereupon the said James & Henry by Robert Ridgely their
                   Attorney say, that whereas the said Bennet & John the tenth day
                   of July one thousand six hundred seventy six by their certaine write
                   ing obligatory sealed with the Seale of the said Bennet & John & here
                   in Court produced whose date is the day & yeare aforesaid did
                   acknowledge themselves to owe & stand indebted unto the said
                   Nathaniel Styles his heyres Exrs Admrs or assignes the full & just
                   quantity of six thousand pounds of tobacco & cask, to the which
                   payment well & truely to be made they did binde themselves & either
                   of them joyntly & severally their heyres Exrs & Admrs firmly by those
                   prsents Notwithstanding which the said Bennet Stayres & John
                   Wilkinson the said sume of six thousand pds of tobacco to him
                   the said Nathaniel in his life tyme nor to the said James & Henry
                   since his death to whom Admcon of all & singuler the Goods Chattels
                   rights & creditts which were of the said Nathaniel since his death
                   hath bin comitted according to the tenor of the said writeing obliga
                   tory although often thereunto required have not paid or satisfied
                   hut the same to pay or satisfie have refused & as yet doe refuse and
                   deny in retardacon of the Admcon of the said James & Henry of the