Provincial Court Proceedings, 1677/8.    395

        To the which payment well & truely to be made the said ifrances did Liber N N
        binde herselfe her heyres Exrs & Admrs firmly by those prsents Not
        withstanding which the said ifrances Lucas the said Sixteen hundred
        & eleven pounds of tobacco according to the tenor of the said bill
        obligatory although often thereunto required to the said Marke
        Cordea hath not paid, but the same to pay hath denyed & refused
        & to pay the same as yet doth deny and refuse, whereupon the said
        Marke Cordea saith he is damnified & hath losse to the Value of
        one thousand pds of tobacco & thereupon he bringeth his suite
         And the said ifrances by Kenelm Cheseldyn her Attorney cometh
        & defendeth the force & injury when &c and prayeth liberty to imparle
        hereto untill nex Provinciall Court & itt is granted unto her, the
        same day is given to the plt likewise
         Now here att this day to witt the fourteenth day of June in the
        third yeare of the Dominion of Charles Lord Baltemore &c Annoq
        Dni 1678 came the said parties by their Attorneys aforesaid And
        the said ifrances by her said Attorney saith that the said Marke
        Cordea his action aforesaid agt her ought not to have, for that the
        bill obligatory in the declaracon menconed is not her act & Deed,
        & of this she craves the judgemt of the Court & the plt likewise
        Whereupon itt is considered by the Court here, that the said Marke
        Cordea recover agt the said ifrances Lucas the aforesaid debt of
        Sixteen hundred & eleven pds of tobacco

        Cuninghams Exrs William Rosewell late of St Maryes County
           agt otherwise William Rosewell of St Clements bay
        Wm Rosewellin the County of St Maryes in Maryland genti
        was Sumoned to Answer unto Thomas Carlisle
        John Watson Wm Hatton & Robert Graham Exrs of the last Will &
        testmt of John Cuningham deceased in a plea that he render unto
        them the sume of three thousand pds of tobacco which from them
        he unjustly detaineth
         And whereupon the said Tho: Carlisle Jno Watson Wm Hatton
        & Robert Graham by Kenelm Cheseldyn their Attorney say, that
        whereas the said Wm Rosewell the seventeenth day of March in the
        yeare One thousand six hundred seventy five, did by his certaine
        writeing obligatory sealed with the Seale of the said Wm here in
        Court produced whose date is the same day & yeare above written,
        acknowledge himselfe to owe & stand indebted unto the said John
        Cuningham Mrchant in his life Tyme the full & just Sume of three
        thousand pounds of tobacco good sound & Mrchantable & cask, which
        said sume of three thousand pounds of tobacco he did thereby prom
        ise & engage to pay or cause to be paid unto the above named John
        Cuningham his heyres Exrs or assignes or other his certaine At
        torney upon demand To the true paymt whereof he did oblige him
        selfe his heyres Exrs Admrs firmly by those prsents Notwithstanding