Provincial Court Proceedings, 1677/8.    375

        Estate of the said Nathaniel Whereupon they say they are damnified Liber N N
        & have losse to the Value of Eight thousand ptts of tobacco & there
        upon they bring their suite And the said James & Henry bring into
        Court here the Letters of Admcon to them granted of the Estate of
        the said Nathaniel, that so itt may appeare to the Court here that
        thereof they have the Admcon
          And the aforesaid Bennet Stayres & John Wilkinson by Nehemiah
        Blakiston their Attorney come & defend the force and injury when
        &c and the said Bennet & John pray the hearing of the writeing
        obligatory aforesaid & itt is read unto them, they also pray the hear
        ing of the Condicon of the same writeing & itt is read unto them in
        these words vizt The Condicon of this Obligacon is such, that if the
        aboue bounden Bennet Stayres & John Wilkinson or either of them
        their heyres ExTS Admrs or assignes shall well & truely pay or cause
        to be payd to Nathaniel Styles his heyres ExT5 Admrs or assignes
        the full & just Sume or quantity of three thousand ptts of large &
        bright tobacco & cask without ground leaves or trash att or upon the
        tenth of October next ensueing the date abovesaid or upon demand
        after that then this prsent obligacon shall be void & of none effect else
        to remaine in full force & vertue. Which being read & heard the said
        Bennet & John pray liberty to imparle hereunto untill next Provin
        ciall Court & itt is granted unto them, the same day is given to the
        plaintiffes also.
          Now here att this day to witt the Seventeenth day of June in the p. 605
        third yeare of the Dominion of Charles Lord Baltemore &c Annop
        Doni 1678. came the said plaintiffes by their Attorney aforesaid &
        offered themselves agt the Defendts in the plea aforesaid, but the said
        Defendts came not but made default Therefore itt is considered by the
        Court here that the said Henry Stocket & James Stavely Admrs as
        aforesaid recover agt the said Bennet Stayres & John Wilkinson as
        well the sume of six thousand pds of tobacco debt As also five hun
        dred fifty two pds of tobacco costs of suite

        Walter Hall Garrat VanSweringen late of St Maryes County
           agt gentl otherwise called Garret VanSweringen of the
      G VSweringen Citty of St Maryes Inholder was Sumoned to
                   answer unto Walter Hall of a plea that he render
        unto him the full sume or quantity of foureteen thousand pds of good
        sound Mrchantable tobacco in caske which to him he oweth & un
        justly detaineth
          And whereupon the said Walter Hall by Robert Ridgely his At
        torney saith that whereas the said Garret the twentieth day of ffebru
        ary in the second yeare of the Dominion of Charles Lord Baron of
        Baltemore &c over Maryland Annoq Doni one thousand six hun
        dred seventy six by his certaine writeing obligatory sealed with the
        Seale of him the said Garret & here in Court produced whose date