Provincial Court Proceedings, 1677/8.    445

         To Mr John Blake Mrchant in London,          Liber N N
           By this publick Instrument of Protest be itt known & manifest
          unto all those who shall see these prsents or heare the same read,
          that on the Eleventh day of the month of August Anno Dom One
          thousand six hundred seventy seven & in the nine & twentieth yeare
          of the reigne of our Sovereigne Lord Charles the second by the grace
          of god King of England Scotland ifrance & Ireland defendr of the
          faith &c att the request of Mr Benjami Whichcot of London Mrchant
          I Nicholas Hayward Notary & Tabellion publick dwelling in Lon- p. 663
          don by authority of his said Maties admitted & sworne speaking to
          Mr John Blake also of London Mrchant I demanded of him if he
          would pay the originall bill of Exchange of sixty five pounds sixteen
          shillings & foure pence (whereof the true copy is written on the
          other side) whereupon the said John Blake answered that for want
          of Effects he would not pay the said bills, wch answer I the said
          Notary haveing heard (att the request aforesaid) have protested as
          by these prseflts I doe protest as well against Dominick Bodkin
          drawer of the said bill as against all others therein obliged for
          Change & Rechange together with all costs damages & interests
          all ready suffered & hereafter to be suffered for want of payment
          of the said bill. Thus done & protested in London in prsence of
          John Liddiard & Pocten Paul Wittnesses
                           Quod attestor regatus manu ac sigillo.
          (locus sigilli)  Nic: Hayward Notarius publicus

         Robert Carvile Comand was given to the Sheriffe of St Maryes
              agt County that he Attach any the Goods or Chat
       Cadwallader Jones tells of Cadwallader Jones if they should be found
                      in his bailywick to the Value of two thousand
          one hundred thirty three pounds of tobacco, & the same so Attached
          in his custody to keep untill the said Cadwallader Jones should by
          himselfe or his Attorney appeare here the Eleventh day of June
          in the third yeare of his Lordpps Dominion &c Annoaj Doni 1678. to
          answer unto Robert Carvile genti in a plea of trespas upon the case.
          Att which said Eleventh day of June the same Sheriffe made returne
          of the writt aforesaid that by vertue thereof he hath Attached in the
          hands of Walter Hall two thousand one hundred thirty three pounds
          of tobacco.
           Afterwards to witt the twelfth day of June in the yeare aforesaid
          the said Attachment was dissolved by the Court, & Ordered that
          the tobacco so Attached as aforesaid be restored to the said Walter
          Hall

         Robert Ridgely Comand was given to the Sheriffe St Maryes
              agt County that he Attach any the Goods or Chattells
       Cadwallader Jones of Cadwallader Jones if they should be found in
                      his bailywick to the Value of two thousand five