Provincial Court Proceedings, 1677.     67

       day of May 1676 by his certaine writeing Obligatory Sealed with Liber N N
       the seale of him the Said John here in Court produced whose date
       is the same day & yeare abovesaid did acknowledge himselfe to be
       holden & firmly bound unto the said Redmond & Dominick in the
       full & just quantity of three thousand & Sixty five pounds of good
       Sound merchantable tobacco & caske to conteine the same to be paid
       to them or either of them their heirs executrs admrs or certaine At
       torny upon all demands to be paid at Some convenient place neer the
       waterside in Charles County aforesaid To which payment well &
       truly to be made he the said John did bind himselfe his heirs executrs
       & admrs firmly by those presents Notwithstanding which the Said
       John Allen the said three thousand sixty five pounds of tobacco &
       cask unto the Said Dominick & Redmond or either of them hath
       not paid though often thereunto required but the Same to pay hath
       denyed & Still doth deny Whereupon the said Redmond & Dominick
       Say they are the worse & have losse to the value of five thousand
       pounds of tobacco & thereupon they bring their suite.
         And the said John Allen by John Jones his Attorny cometh &
       defendeth the force & injury when &c and prayeth liberty of Speake
       ing hereunto untill October Court and it is granted him the same
       day is given the said Redmond & Dominick
         Now here at this day to witt the Eighth day of October in the
       second yeare of his Lopps Dominion Over this Province Annoq3
       Dom 1677 Came the said Redmond & Dominick by their Said At
       torny & offered themselves against the said John Allen in the plea
       aforesaid but the said John came not but made default Whereupon
       it is granted by the Court here that the said Redmond ffitz Gerald &
       Dominick Bodkin recover against the said John Allen aswell the
       sume of three thousand Sixty five pounds of tobacco the debt afore
       said as also the sume of nine hundred twenty nine pounds of tobacco
       cost of suite & the said John in mercy.

       Arthur Young Edward Gibbs late of Petuxent in Ca!vert County
       agt otherwise called Edward Gibbs of Petuxent in Cal-
       Edward Gibbs vert County in the Province of Maryland merchant
                 was Sumoned to answer unto Arthur Young of a
       plea that he render unto him Six thousand nine hundred fifty two
       pounds of tobacco which to him he oweth & unjustly deteineth.
         And whereupon the said Arthur by Robert Carvile his Attorny
       Saith that whereas the said Edward upon the thirtenth day of June
       1676 by his certaine bill or writeing Obligatory Sealed with the
       seale of him the said Edward & here in Court produced whose date
       is the day & yeare abovesaid did confesse & acknowledge himselfe
       to owe & stand indebted to the said Arthur in the full or just summe
       or quantity of six thousand nine hundred fifty two pounds of good
       & every way merchantable leafe tobacco in caske to be paid to the