Provincial Court Proceedings, 1677/8. 411

          And the said John Rawlings by Robert Ridgely his Attorney Liber N N
        cometh & defendeth the force & injury when &c & prayeth liberty to
        imparle hereunto untill next Provinciall Court & itt is granted unto
        him, the same day is given to the plt also
          Now here att this day to witt the Seventeenth day of June in
        the third yeare of the Dominion of Charles Lord Baltemore &c
        Annoçp Doni 1678. came the said John Brooke by his Attorney afore
        said And offered himselfe agt the said John Rawlings in the plea p. 635
        aforesaid but the said John came not but made default Therefore
        itt is granted by the Court here, that the said John Brooke recover
        agt the said John Rawlings as well the aforesaid debt of foure thou
        sand five hundred pds of tobacco As also Eight hundred thirty six
        pds of tobacco costs of suite And the said John Rawlings in mercy.

        John England Garret VanSweringen late of St Maryes Citty
            agt Innholder otherwise called Garret VanSwer
     Garret VSweringen ingen of St Maryes Citty in St Maryes County
                      gentt was Sumoned to answer unto John Eng
        land of a plea that he render unto him the just & full sume of two
        thousand & foure hundred pounds of good tobacco in cask which to
        him he oweth & unjustly detaineth
          And whereupon the said John England by Robert Ridgely his
        Attorney saith, that whereas the said Garret the third day of June
        one thousand six hundred seventy six by his certaine bill obligatory
        Sealed with the seale of him the said Garret & here in Court pro
        duced whose date is the day & yeare aforesaid did acknowledge
        himselfe to be holden & firmly bounden unto the said John England
        in the just & full sume of two thousand foure hundred pds of good
        tobacco in cask to be paid to the said John England or to his certaine
        Attorney his heyres Exrs Admrs or assignes att or upon the tenth
        day of Octoberr next ensueing att some convenient place in St Maryes
        river To the which payment well & truely to be made the said Garret
        did binde himselfe his heyres Exrs & Admrs in the whole & for the
        whole joyntly & severally firmly by those prsents Yet the said Garret
        VanSweringen the said sume of two thousand foure hundred pounds
        of tobacco to him the said John England according to the tenor of
        the said writeing obligatory although often thereunto required hath
        not paid, but the same to pay hath denyed & as yet doth deny, where
        upon the said John England saith he is damnified & hath losse to
        the Value of foure thousand pds of tobacco & thereupon he bringes
        his suite
          And the said Garret VanSweringen in his proper person comes
        & defends the force & injury when &c & saith that he hath satisfied
        & paid unto the said John England one hundred twenty eight pounds
        of tobacco part of the said sume of two thousand foure hundred
        pounds of tobacco in the above declaracon mencOned And as to two