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        if any judgments be Obtained in the said County Court Since the Liber N N
        last Provinciall Court against the estate of the said Worgan &
        executions thereupon issued be & are hereby superseded untill the
        said Suits here be fully determined.

        Dominick Bodkin Robert Doyne late of Charles County was at
            agt tached to answer unto Dominick Bodkin Mer
        Robert Doyne chant in a plea of trespas upon the case
                      And whereupon the said Dominick by Chris
        topher Rousby his Attorny complaineth That whereas the Right
        Honble Charles Lord Baltemore the twenty sixth day of May 1676
        Stood indebted to the said Dominick in the Quantity of eight thou
        sand One hundred & Eighty pounds of tobacco & being so indebted
        did the day & yeare aforesaid draw a note or Order upon the said
        Robert Doyne signed by him the said Lord Baltemore requireing
        him the said Robert Doyne to pay unto him the said Dominick
        Bodkin or his Order the said summe of Eight thousand One hun
        dred & Eighty pounds of tobacco in caske in some convenient place
        in Charles County at or upon the tenth day of November then next
        ensueing, And whereas the Said Robert Doyne the thirtenth day of
        June 1676 haveing read & purused the aforesaid note or Order of
        him the said Lord Baltemore drawne upon him the said Robert to
        pay the said Eight thousand One hundred & Eighty pounds of to
        bacco unto the said Dominick as aforesaid did the same thirtenth
        day of June 1676 in Charles County in this Province accept of the
        same note or Order & did then & there assume upon himselfe & by a
        certaine writeing or subscription Signed by the said Robert did
        Oblige himselfe his heirs & asss to pay the abovesaid summe or
        quantity of Eight thousand One hundred & Eighty pounds of tobacco
        & caske unto the said Dominick or his Order at or upon the Said
        tenth day of November then next ensueing Yet the said Robert
        Doyne his promise & assumption aforesaid not regarding but plotting
        & deviseing him the said Dominick Bodkin of the Said Eight thou
        sand One hundred & Eighty pounds of tobacco wholly to defraud
        the said Eight thousand One hundred & Eighty pounds of tobacco
        unto him the said Dominick or unto any other person by his Order
        hath not paid though often thereunto required but the same to pay
        hath denyed & Still doth deny whereupon the said Dominick Saith
        he is the worse & hath damage to the value of twelve thousand pounds
        of tobacco & thereupon he brings his suite And the said Dominick
        produceth here in Court aswell the said note or Order Signed by
        the said Lord Baltemore drawne upon the said Robert as afore
        said whose date is the said six & twentith of May 1676. as also
        the said writeing or subscription of him the said Robert Doyne whose
        date is the said 13th of June 1676.
          Now here at this day to wit the two & twentith day of June Anno