66        Provincial Court Proceedings, 1677.

             Liber N N Rousby their Attorny say That whereas the Said Mathew Stone the
                    first day of May 1676 by his certaine writeing Obligatory Sealed
                    with the seale of the said Mathew here in Court produced, whose
                    date is the same day & yeare abovesaid did acknowledge himselfe
                    holden & firmly bound unto the said Redmond ffitz Gernar!d & Domi
                    nick Bodkin in the full & just quantity of two thousand One hundred
                    & Sixty nine pounds of tobacco & caske to conteine the same to be
                    paid to them the said Redmond & Dominick or either of them their
                    heirs exrs admrx or certaine Attornyes upon all demands in some con
                    venient place in Nangemy Creeke To which paymt well & truly to be
                    done he the said Mathew did bind himselfe his heirs executrs &
                    admrs firmly by those prsents Yet the said Marthew in his life time
                    nor the said Margery since the death of the said Mathew the said
                    two thousand One hundred sixty nine pounds of tobacco unto the
                    Said Redmond & Dominick or either of them have not paid but the
                    same to pay have denyed & the said Margery Still doth deny Where
                    upon the said Redmund and Dominick Say they are the worse and
                    have losse to the value of three thousand pounds of tobacco And
                    thereupon they bring their suite
                     And the said Margery by John Jones her Attorny, cometh & de
                    fendeth the force & injury when &c and prayeth liberty to imparle
                    hereunto untill the next Provinciall Court & it is granted unto her,
                    the same day is given to the plaintiffs
                     Att which next Court to wit the fifth day of October Anno Doth
                    1677 Came the said Redmond & Dominick by their Said Attorny &
                    Offered themselves agt the said Margery in the plea aforesaid but
                    the said Margery Came not but made default Whereupon it is
                    granted by the Court here That the said Redmund ffitz Gerald &
                    Dominick Bodkin recover against the estate of the said Mathew
                    aswell the summe of Two thousand One hundred Sixty nine pounds
                    of tobacco the debt aforesaid as also the summe of nine hundred
                    eight six pounds of tobacco cost of Suite.

                    Thomas Hagleton
                        agt     this cause continued untill next December Court
                    Thomas Truman

               p. 353 Redmond ffitz Gerald John Allen late of Charles County Gent
                       & Dominick Bodkin Otherwise called John Allen of Charles
                       agt County was Sumöned to answer unto Red-
                    John Allenmond ffitz Gerald and Dominick Bodkin
                    merchants in a plea that he render unto
                    them three thousand & sixty five pounds of tobacco & caske which
                    to them he oweth & unjustly deteineth.
                     And whereupon the Said Redmond & Dominick by Christopher
                    Rousby their Attorny Say that whereas the Said John the Second