78        Provincial Court Proceedings, 1677.

             Liber N N  Richard saith as to foure thousand One hundred Eight foure pounds
                    of tobacco he is content that judgment passe against him as adminis
                    tor as aforesaid Whereupon it is granted by the Court here that the
                    said Wm Gittings recover against the estate of the said Cuthbert
                    ifenwick the summe of foure thousand One hundred Eighty foure
                    pounds of tobacco damages Occasioned by the trespas aforesaid as
                    also the Summe of six hundred twenty Seaven pounds of tobacco
                    costs of suite.

                    Joseph Pile Gerard Slye late of st Maries County otherwise called
                       agt Capt Gerard Slye of st Maries County in the Province
                   Gerard Slye    of Maryland Gent was sumoned to answer unto Joseph
                             Pile of a plea that he render unto him three thousand
                    nine hundred & nineteene pounds of tobacco which to him he oweth
                    & unjustly deteineth Whereupon the Said Joseph Pile by Robert
                    Carvile his Attorny saith That whereas the said Gerard Slye the
                    22th day of April 1676 by his certaine writeing Obligatory Sealed
                    with the seale of him the said Gerard & here in Court produced whose
                    date is the day & yeare abovewritten did bind & acknowledge him
                    selfe his heirs executrs admrs & assignes to pay or cause to be paid
                    the full just summe of three thousand nine hundred & nineteene
                    pounds of good sound merchantable leafe tobacco in caske within
                    halfe an English mile distant frö convenient Landing in the County
                    & Province aforesaid unto the said Joseph Pile of the County &
                    Province aforesaid Planter his heirs executrs admts or assignes at or
                    before the tenth day of October next ensueing the date thereof
                    notwithstanding which the said Gerard Slye the said Summe of three
                    thousand nine hundred & nineteen pounds of tobacco unto him the
                    said Joseph Pile though often thereunto required hath not paid but
                    the same to pay hitherto hath & Still doth altogether deny To the
                    damage of the said Joseph foure thousand eight hundred pounds of
                    tobacco & thereupon he brings his suite.
                      And the Said Gerard by Kenelm Cheseldyn his Attorny cometh
                    & defendeth the force & injury when &c and prayeth liberty to im
                    parle hereunto untill the next Provinciall Court the same day is
                    given to both partyes.
                      Att which next Court to wit the fifth day of October Anno 1677
                    Came the said Joseph by his Attorny aforesaid & Offered himselfe
                    against the said Gerard in the plea aforesaid but the said Gerard
                    came not but made default Whereupon it is granted by the Court
                    here That the said Joseph Pile recover against the Said Gerard Slye
                    aswell the summe of three thousand nine hundred and nineteene
                    pounds of tobacco the debt aforesaid as also the summe of five hun
                    dred and Sixty pounds of tobacco for his costs & charges in this
                    behalf e laid Out & expended & the said Gerard in mercy.