390      Provincial Court Proceedings, 1677/8.

            Liber N N  still doth deny to the damge of the said Bennet the sume of foure
                   thousand pounds of tobacco & thereupon he bringeth his suite
                     And the said Thomas Helgar by Robert Carvile his Attorney
                   cometh & defendeth the force & injury when &c and prayeth liberty
                   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 Eighteenth day of June in the
                   third yeare of the Dominion of Charles Lord Baltemore &c Annoq
                   Doni 1678. came the said Bennet by his Attorney aforesaid & offered
                   himself e agt the said Thomas Helgar in the plea aforesaid, but the
                   said Thomas came not but made default Therefore itt is granted by
                   the Court here that the said Bennet Marchegay recover agt the said
                   Thomas Helgar aswell the sume of three thousand & thirty pounds
                   of tobacco debt As also five hundred forty foure pds of tobacco costs
                   of suite

                   Geo:     Markes Garret VanSweringen late of St Maryes Citty In
                       agt holder otherwise called Garret VanSweringen of
                 G VSweringen the Citty of St Maryes in the Province of Maryland
                              gentt was Sumoned to Answer unto George Markes
                   of a plea that he render unto him the just & neat quantity of Seven
                   thousand foure hundred pounds of good sound Mrchantable tobacco
                   & cask which to him he oweth & unjustly detaineth
                     And whereupon the said George Markes by Robert Ridgely his
                   Attorney saith, that whereas the said Garret the fourth day of
                   August one thousand six hundred seventy seven by his certaine bill
                   obligatory sealed with the seale of him the said Garret & here in
                   Court produced whose date is the day & yeare aforesaid, did ac
                   acknowledge & confesse himself e to be owing & stand justly indebted
                   unto the said George Markes of the towne of Port Royall in the
                   Island of Jamaica Marryner for the accompt & proper use of Mr
                   John Moll of the aforesaid Island of Jamaica in the just & neat
                   quantity of Seven thousand foure hundred pds of good sound
                   Mrchantable tobacco & cask to be paid unto the abovesaid George
                   Markes or John Moll or either of their Lawfull Attorneys att or
                   upon the tenth day of Octobr next ensueing the date of the same
                   bill Obligatory att some convenient Plantacons in St Maryes County,
                   to the true performance whereof the abovesaid Garret VanSweringen
                   did thereby binde himselfe his heyres Exrs Admrs or asss firmly by
                   those prsents Notwithstanding which the said Garret the said seven
                   thousand foure hundred pds of tobacco to them the said George
                   Markes or John Moll although often thereunto required according
                   to the tenor of the said bill obligatory hath not paid, but the same
                   to pay hath denyed & refused & to pay the same as yet doth deny &
                   refuse, whereupon the said George Markes saith he is damnified &
                   hath losse to the Value of tenn thousand pds of tobacco & there
                   upon he bringeth his suite.