4         Provincial Court Proceedings, 1677.

            Liber N N Thomas Carvile Exr Joshua Guibert late of st Maries County was
                     Robt Hunt sumoned to answer unto Thomas Carvile Ex
                    agt          ecutr of the last will & Testament of Robert
                   Joshua Guibert     Hunt deceased of a plea that he render unto
                   him his reasonable accompt for the time he
                   was receiver of the tobacco of him the said Robert in his life time.
                     And whereupon the said Thomas by Kenelm Cheseldyn his At
                   torny saith that whereas the said Joshua from the tenth day of
                   November in the yeare 1675 untill the tenth day of April in the
                   yeare 1676 did receive severall tobaccoes of his the said Roberts
                   in his life time by the hands of severall persons in this Province
                   in the whole amounting to the summe of Eight thousand three hun
                   dred ninty Eight pounds of tobacco a particular whereof is here in
                   Court produced to render a reasonable accompt to him the said
                   Robert when thereunto required notwithstanding which the said
                   Joshua his reasonable accompt to him the said Robert though often
                   required in his life time hath not rendred nor to the said Thomas
                   since his death hath not rendred but the same to render hitherto
                   hath & Still doth deny to the damage of the said Thomas twelve
                   thousand pounds of tobacco & thereupon he bringeth his suite. And
                   the said Thomas also bringes here in Court the letters testamentary
                   to him granted that it may appeare to the Court here that he is
                   Executr of the said Robert
                     And the Said Joshua by John Jones his Attorny comes & defends
                   the force & injury when &c and saith he never was the receiver of
                   him the said Robert to render him any accompt & putts himselfe
                   upon the Country, And the said Thomas Saith he was receiver of
                   the said Robert to render an accompt & of this he putts himselfe upon
                   the Country & the said Joshuah also. Whereupon Comãnd is given
                   to the Sheriff of st Maries County that he cause to come here twelve
                   &c Now here at this day to wit three & twentith day of June in the
                   yeare 1677 Came the parties aforesaid by their Attornyes and the
                   jurors of that jury also came to wit Richard Gardner Wm Harper
                   John Waghopp Abraham Rhodes Morgan Jones Daniel Smith Wm
                   Guither Thomas Clegatt Richard Bayly John Wynn John Askin and
                   Marmaduke Semme who being impannelled sumoned & Sworne to
                   say the truth in the premisses upon their Oathes doe say That the
                   said Joshua Guibert Ought to accornpt with the said Thomas Carvile
                   Whereupon it is considered by the Court here that Auditors be
                   appointed to audite & state the accompts betweene the said Robert
                   Hunt & Joshua Guibert and doe Order & appoint Gerard Slye &
                   Clement Hill to audite & state the same & make report at the next
                   Provinciall Court.