402       Provincial Court Proceedings, 1677/8.

             Liber N N  Doni 1678 came the said parties by their Attorneys aforesaid And
                    the said Thomas by his said Attorney saith, that he did not assume
                    upon himselfe & to the said Gilbert faithfully promise in manner &
                    forme as the said Gilbert in his said declaracon hath suggested & of
                    this he puts himselfe upon the Countrey, & the plt also Therefore
                    comand is given to the Sheriffe of St Maryes County that he cause to
                    come here twelve &c by whom &c who neither &c to recognize &c
                    because as well &c Att which said seventeenth day of June in the
                    yeare aforesaid came the said parties by their Attorneys aforesaid
                    And the jurors impannelled being called likewise came to witt
                    Thomas Stagg, Benja Hunt, Edmond Dennis, Richard Keen, Robert
                    Ellys, Edward Turner, Edmond Dermott, Henry Parker, Edward
                    Cooke, Jno 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 Thomas Smith did assume upon himselfe & to the
                    said Gilbert make such promise as the said Gilbert hath above de
                    clared agt him Therefore itt is granted by the Court here, that the
                    said Gilbert Tubervile recover agt the said Thomas Smith as well
                    the sume of two thousand pds of tobacco by the Jurors aforesaid in
                    forme aforesaid assessed As also two thousand foure hundred thirty
                    foure pounds of tobacco costs of suite And the said Tho: Smith in
                    mercy &c

                   Charles James Henry Stocket & James Stavely Admrs of Na
                       agt thaniel Styles late of Cecil County deceased were
                    Stocket & Stavely Attached to answer unto Charles James of a plea
                    Admrs Stiles of trespas upon the case
                                  And whereupon the said Charles James by
                    Christopher Rousby his Attorney complaineth, that whereas the said
                    Nathaniel Styles in his life tyme to witt the thirtieth day of June
                    one thousand six hundred seventy six stood indebted to the said
                    Charles James for tobacco received by the said Nathaniel of sundry
                    persons for the use of him the said Charles for wheat sold & de
                    livered to him the said Nathaniel by the said Charles & for ffees due
                    to him the said Charles a particuler whereof is here in Court pro
                    duced in all amounting to the sume of Seven thousand nine hundred
                    & seven pds of tobacco And being so indebted afterwards to witt
                    the said thirtieth of June one thousand six hundred seventy six in
                    consideracon thereof did assume upon himselfe & to the said Charles
                    did faithfully promise that he the said Nathaniel the said sume of
                    Seven thousand nine hundred ninety seven pounds of tob unto the
                    said Charles when thereunto required well & truely would pay &
                    satisfie Yett the said Nathaniel his promise & assumpcon aforesaid
                    in that behalf e little reguarding but plotting & fraudulently deviseing
                    him the said Charles wholy to deceive & defraud, the said Seven
                p. 628 thousand nine hundred ninety seven Pounds of tobacco in his life