396       Provincial Court Proceedings, 1677/8.

             Liber N N which the said Wm Rosewell the said sume of three thousand pds
                    of tobacco according to the tenor of the said writeing obligatory
                    hath not paid to him the said John in his life tyme nor to the said
                    Tho: Carlisle Jno Watson Robert Graham & Wm Hatton Exrs of the
                    last Will & testament of the said John Cuningham though often
                    thereunto required, but the same to pay hitherto hath & still denies
                    to the damage of them the said Tho: Carlisle John Watson, Robert
                    Graham & Wm Hatton the sume of five thousand pds of tobacco &
                    thereupon he bringeth his suite
                     And the said Wm Rosewell by Robert Carvile his Attorney corn
                    eth & 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 plts 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 Anoq
                    Doni 1678. came the said plts by their Attorneys aforesaid & offered
                    themselves agt the said Wm Rosewell in the plea aforesaid, but the
                    said Wm came not but made default Therefore itt is considered by
                    the Court here that the said Thomas Carlisle John Watson Robert
                    Graham & Wm Hatton Exrs as aforesaid recover agt the said Wm
                    Rosewell as well the sume of three thousand pds of tobacco debt
                    As also five hundred & Sixty pds of tobacco costs of suite.

                   Cuningharns Exrs Thomas Keyting late of St Maryes County other
                       agt wise called Thomas Keyting of St Michaels Hun-
                 Thomas Keyting dred planter in St Maryes County in the Prov
                                ince of Maryland was Sumoned to answer unto
                    Tho:    Carlisle, John Watson, Robert Graham & Wm Hatton Exrs
                    of the last Will & testament of John Cuningham deceased in a plea
                    that he render unto them the sume of two thousand nine hundred
                    & sixty three ptts of tobacco which from them he unjustly detaineth
                     And whereupon the said Tho: Carlisle John Watson Robt Graham
                    & Wm Hatton by Kenelm Cheseldyn their Attorney say, that whereas
                    the said Tho: Keyting the sixteenth day of July in the yeare of our
                    Lord one thousand six hundred seventy six by his certaine writeing
                    obligatory sealed with the seale of the said Thomas Keyting here
                    in Court produced whose date is the same day & yeare above written
                    did acknowledge himselfe to owe & stand indebted to the said John
                    Cuningham Mrchant in the full & just Sume of two thousand nine
                    hundred sixty three pds of good sound Mrchantable tobacco in cask
                    & that to be paid unto the said John Cuningham his heyres Exrs or
                    assignes or his lawfull Attorney & that upon all demands after the
                    tenth day of Octobr next ensueing the date thereof & that in some
                    convenient landing in the aforesaid Hundred To the true payrnt
                    whereof he did binde himself e his heyres Exrs Admrs firmly by those
                    prsents Notwthstanding which the said Tho: Keyting the said sume