394       Provincial Court Proceedings, 1677/8.

            Liber N N  to the Value of five thousand pds of tobacco & thereupon he brings
                   suite
                    And the said Peter Mills by Robert Carvile his Attorney cometh &
                   defendeth the force & injury when &c & prayeth liberty to imparle
                   hereunto untill next Provinciall Court & itt is granted unto him, the
                   same day is given to the plt 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 Annoq3
                   Doni 1678. came the said parties by their Attorneys aforesaid & the
                   said Peter Mills by his said Attorney saith, that he is not guilty of the
                   trespas above by the said Marke imposed upon him, & upon this he
                   putts himselfe upon the Countrey, & the said plaintiffe also There
                   fore itt is comanded the Sheriffe of St Maryes County that he cause
                   to come here twelve &c by whom &c who neither &c because as well
                   &c Att which said seventeenth day of June in the yeare aforesaid
                   came the said parties by their Attorneys aforesaid, & the jurors
                   impannelled being called likewise came to witt, Tho: Stagg, Benja
                   Hunt, Edmond Dennis, Richard Keene, Robert Ellys, Edward
                   Turner, Tho: Smith, Henry Parker, Edward Cooke, John Dickson,
                   Wm Guither & John Baker who being elected tryed & Sworne to say
                   the truth in the prmisses upon their Oaths doe Say that the said
                   Peter Mills is not guilty of the trespas above imposed upon him
                   Whereupon itt is granted by the Court here that the said Peter Mills
                   recover agt the said Marke Cordea the sume of twelve hundred & one
                   pounds of tobacco for his costs & charges by him about his defence
                   in this behalf e laid out & expended And the said Marke Cordea in
                   mercy for his false clayme

             p. 621 Marke Cordea ifrances Lucas late of St Maryes County Widdow
                      agt otherwise called ifrances Lucas of the County of
                 ffrances    Lucas St Maryes in the Province of Maryland was Sum
                             oned to answer unto Marke Cordea of a plea that
                   she render unto him the full & just sume of Sixteen hundred & Eleven
                   pounds of good sound mrchantable tobacco & cask which to him she
                   oweth & unjustly detaineth.
                    And whereupon the said Marke Cordea by Robert Ridgely his
                   Attorney saith, that whereas the said ifrances Lucas the sixth day of
                   Octobr one thousand six hundred seventy six by her certaine bill
                   obligatory sealed with the seale of her the said ifrances & here in
                   Court produced whose date is the day & yeare aforesaid, did acknowl
                   edge herselfe to be holden & firmly indebted unto the said Marke
                   in the full & just sume of Sixteen hundred & eleven pounds of
                   good sound Mrchantable tobacco in caske to be paid unto the said
                   Marke Cordea or to his certaine Attorney his heyres Exrs & Admrs
                   or assignes att some convenient place in the said County, to be paid
                   the tenth of Octobr next ensueing the date of the same bill obligatory