410       Provincial Court Proceedings, 1677/8.

             Liber N N Ensuing the date thereof Notwithstanding which the said Tho:
               p. 634  Hinton the said sume of three thousand five hundred pds of tobacco
                   to him the said Ralph l1ath not paid though often thereunto required
                   according to the tenor of his said writeing but the same to pay
                   hitherto hath & still doth deny to the damage of the said Ralph five
                   thousand pounds of tobacco & thereupon he bringeth his suite
                    And the said Thomas Hinton by William Williams his Attorney
                   cometh & defendeth the force & injury when &c & prayeth liberty
                   to imparle hereunto untill next Provincial Court & itt is granted unto
                   him, the same day is given to the plt 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 Annoq3
                   Doni 1678. came the said Ralph Harwood by his Attorney afore
                   said, & the said Thomas Hinton in his proper person came likewise,
                   & the said Thomas saith nothing in barr or avoidance of the action
                   aforesaid of him the said Ralph Harwood, but that he the said
                   Ralph should recover agt him the said Thomas the said sume of
                   three thousand five hundred pounds of tobacco so that Execucon
                   thereof cease untill the tenth day of Octobr next Therefore itt is
                   granted by the Court here that the said Ralph Harwood recover agt
                   the said Thomas Hinton as well the sume of three thousand five
                   hundred pounds of tob debt As also five hundred forty foure pounds
                   of tobacco costs of suite so that ExecucOn thereof cease untill the
                   tenth day of Octobr next And the said Thomas in mercy

                  John Brooke John Rawlings late of Dorchister County was Sum
                      agt honed to answer unto John Brooke Chirurgion of a
                 John Rawlings   plea that he render unto him foure thousand five
                              hundred pounds of tobacco which to him he oweth
                   & unjustly detaineth
                    And whereupon the said John Brooke by Robert Carvile his
                   Attorney saith, that whereas the said John Rawlings upon the nine
                   & twentieth day of June in the yeare of our Lord One thousand six
                   hundred seventy seven by his certaine bill or writeing obligatory
                   Sealed with the Seale of him the said John Rawlings & here in
                   Court produced whose date is the day & yeare abovesaid did confesse
                   & acknowledge himself to owe & stand indebted unto the said John
                   Brooke in the full & just sume of foure thousand five hundred
                   pounds of good sound Mrchantable leafe tobacco in caske to be paid
                   to the said John Brooke with good conveniency in the abovesaid
                   County att or upon the tenth day of October next ensueing the date
                   of the said bill Yet the said John Rawlings the said sume of foure
                   thousand five hundred pounds of tobacco to him the said John
                   Brooke occording to the tenor of the said bill though often thereunto
                   required hath not paid or satisfied, but the same to pay hath hitherto
                   & still doth deny to pay to the damage of the said John Brooke six
                   thousand pounds of tobacco & thereupon he bringeth his suite