392       Provincial Court Proceedings, 1677/8.

           Liber N N  the Value of five thousand pds of tobacco & thereupon he bringeth
                  his suite.
                    And the said Garret 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 ptt also.
                    Now here att this day to witt the thirteenth day of June in the
                  third yeare of the Dominion of Charles Lord Baltemore &c Annoq
                  Doni 1678. came the said George Markes by his Attorney aforesaid
              p. 619  And the said Garret in his proper person came also And the Said
                  Garret saith nothing in barr or avoidance of the action aforesaid of
                  him the said George Markes whereby the said George remaineth agt
                  the said Garret thereof wholy undefended Therefore itt is granted
                  by the Court here that the said George Markes recover agt the said
                  Garret VanSweringen Admr as aforesaid as well the sume of foure
                  thousand three hundred sixty & one pounds of tobacco debt As also
                  five hundred thirty six pds of tobacco costs of suite

                  Marke Cordea Garret VanSweringen late of St Maryes Citty gentt
                      agt otherwise called Garret VanSweringen of St Maryes
                G VSweringen County in the Province of Maryland genti was
                             sumoned to answer unto Marke Cordea of a plea
                  that he render unto him the full & just sume of Eight thousand three
                  hundred sixty & two pds of good sound Mrchtble tobacco & cask which
                  to him he oweth & unjustly detaineth
                    And Whereupon the said Marke Cordea by Robert Ridgely his
                  Attorney saith, that whereas the said Garret the Eighteenth day of
                  May 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 acknowl
                  edge himselfe to owe & stand indebted unto the said Marke Cordea
                  the full & just sume of Eight thousand three hundred sixty & two
                  pounds of good sound Mrchantable tobacco & cask to be paid to the
                  said Marke Cordea his heyres Exrs Admrs or assignes convenie[nt]
                  in the County of St Maryes itt being the ballance of all accompts
                  from the begining of the world to that day To the which paymt well
                  & truely to be made the said Garret did binde himselfe his heyres
                  Exrs Admrs or assignes firmly by those prsents Notwithstanding
                  which the said Garret VanSweringen the said sume of Eight thou
                  sand three hundred sixty & two pds of tobacco to him the said
                  Marke Cordea according to the tenor of the said bill obligatory
                  although often thereunto required hath not paid but the same to pay
                  hath refused & denyed & to pay the same as yet doth refuse & deny
                  Whereupon the said Marke Cordea saith that he is damnified & hath
                  losse to the Value of tenn thousand pds of tobacco, & thereupon he
                  bringeth his suite