56        Provincial Court Proceedings, 1677.

             Liber N N  of tobacco to him the said John in his life time nor to the said Marga
                    ret Since his death though often thereunto requested hath not paid
                    but the same to pay doth deny to the damage of the Said Margaret
                    twenty thousand pounds of tobacco & thereupon she bringeth her suite
                    And the Said Abraham by John Jones his attorny cometh & de
                    fendeth the force & injury when &c & prayeth the heareing of the
                    said writeing Obligatory & it is read unto him he also prayeth the
                    heareing of the Condition of the Said writeing Obligatory and it is
                    read unto him in these words The Condition of this Obligation is
                    such that if the abovebounden Abraham Rhodes & Richard Bayly
                    or either of them their or either of their heirs executrs or admrs doe
                    well & truly pay or cause to be paid unto the abovenamed John
                    Gittings his heirs or assignes the full & just quantity or summe of
                    Seven thousand pounds of good sound tobacco in caske at two entire
                    payments vizt foure thousand pounds of tobacco thereof on the
                    tenth day of October next ensueing the date hereof which will be in
                    the yeare of Our Lord 1674 & three thousand pounds more residue
                    thereof on the tenth day of October which will be in the yeare of
                    Our Lord 1675 without fraud or covin that then this Obligation
                    to be void & of none effect otherwise to Stand & remaine in its full
                    force Strenght & virtue, which being read & heard the Said Abraham
                    Saith that as too two thousand foure hundred pounds of tobacco
                    part of the said Summe of seaven thousand pounds of tobacco in the
                    condition of the said writeing Obligatory Specified he the said
                    Abraham hath paid but as too foure thousand Six hundred pounds
                    of tobacco the residue he cannot gainsay because he oweth the same
                    to the said Margaret as admrx as aforesaid Whereupon it is granted
                    by the Court here the Sixth day of October in the second yeare of
                    the Dominion of Charles Lord Baltemore &c Annoq Doth 1677 that
                    the said Margaret Gittings recover against the Said Abraham Rhodes
                    the summe of foure thousand Six hundred pounds of tobacco the
                    debt aforesaid with five hundred & Sixty—pounds of tobacco costs
                    of suite

                   Richard Pery & Tho: Gant the Sheriff of Charles County haveing
                       agt returned a Cepi in this cause & the deft
                    Robert Needhamnot appeareing this October Court It
                    is Ordered by the Court that the said
                    Sheriff peremptorily bring the said Robert at the next Court or the
                    bayle bond to be assigned the plaintiffs.

               p. 346 Mary Roe exrx Edward Comand was given to the Sheriff of Tal
                     Roe bott County that he attach any the goods
                     agt            Chattells or Creditts of John Ingram if they
                    John IngramShould be founkl in his Bailiwick to the value
                    of six hundred sixty six pounds thirteene
                    Shillings & foure pence & when he had the same attached or any