Provincial Court Proceedings, 1677.     79

       Robert Carvile Thomas Gerard late of st Maries County otherwise Liber N N
            agt called Thomas Gerard of Westwood in st Maries p. 361
      Thomas Gerard    County Gent Gent was SumOned to answer unto
                   Robert Carvile One of the Attornyes of this Court
        according to the priviledges &c of a plea that he render unto him two
        thousand pounds of tobacco which to him he oweth & unjustly
        deteineth.
          And whereupon the said Robert in his proper person Saith That
        whereas the said Thomas upon the six and twentith day of ffebruary
        1673 by his certaine bill or writeing Obligatory Sealed with the seale
        of him the said Thomas and here in Court produced whose date is
        the day & yeare abovesaid did confesse & acknowledge himselfe to
        owe and Stand indebted to the said Robert in the sume of two
        thousand pounds of tobacco & caske to be paid in Some convenient
        place in St Maries County at or upon the tenth day of November
        then next Yet notwithstanding the said Thomas the said Surnme of
        two thousand pounds of tobacco to him the Said Robert though often
        thereunto requested hath not hitherto paid or Satisfied but the same
        to pay hath & Still doth deny & refuse to the damage of the said
        Robert three thousand pounds of tobacco & thereupon he bringeth
        his suite.
          Now here at this day to wit the eighth day of October in the yeare
        of Our Lord 1677 Came the said Thomas by Kenelm Cheseldyn his
        Attorny and Saith that as to One thousand pounds part of the said
        two thousand pounds of tobacco he the said Thomas Gerard hath
        paid but as to One thousand pounds the remainder he cannot gainsay
        for that he oweth the same to the said Robert Whereupon it is
        granted by the Court here That the Said Robert Carvile recover
        against the Said Thomas Gerard the summe of One thousand pounds
        of tobacco the debt aforesaid as also the summe of One hundred
        sixty eight pounds of tobacco costs of suite.

        Jane Gray admrx of
          Alexander Winsor
              agt
        Thomas Spink admr
          Jane Paine
        Mary Clements executrix
          Jno Clement
            agt
        Wm Orchard & George Lewen
        Thomas Marsh
            agt
        Stephen Burle exr
          Robert Burle