82        Provincial Court Proceedtings, 1677.

             Liber N N  Speakeing hereunto untill next Provinciall Court and it is granted
                    him the same day is given to the said Mary Clements.
                p. 363 Att which said next Provinciall Court to witt the fifth day of Octo
                    ber in the yeare 1677 Came the said Mary Clements by her said
                    Attorny & offered herself e against the said John Cocke in the plea
                    aforesaid but the said John came not but made default Whereupon
                    it is granted by the Court here that the said Mary recover against
                    the said John Cocke aswell the summe of Seaven thousand pds of
                    tobacco the debt aforesaid as also the summe of five hundred &
                    sixty pounds of tobacco costs of suite & the said John Cocke in
                    mercy &c.

                   Samuel Raspin John Allen late of Charles County Gent otherwise
                     agt called John Allen of Charles County merchant was
                    John Allen    sumoned to answer unto Samuel Raspin of a plea
                    that he render unto him the just quantity of four
                    teen thousand eight hundred fifty One pounds of tobacco which to
                    him he oweth & unjustly deteineth
                     And whereupon the said Samuel by Kenelm Cheseldyn his At
                    torny saith that whereas the said John Allen the 8th day of Septem
                    ber 1675 by his certaine writeing Obligatory Sealed with the Seale
                    of him the said John and here in Court produced whose date is the
                    day & yeare abovesaid did acknowledge himselfe holden & firmly
                    bounden unto the said Samuel for the Use of Mr George Ramsden
                    & Company merchants in Yorke in the Kingdome of England in the
                    full & just quantity of fourteene thousand Eight hundred fifty One
                    pounds of good Sound merchantable leafe tobacco in caske to be
                    paid unto him the Said Samuel Raspin for the use aforesaid to his
                    or their heirs executrs admrs or assignes at or before the tenth day
                    of October next ensueing the date thereof in some convenient place
                    in Charles County aforesaid for which paymt well & truly to be made
                    he did bind himselfe his heirs executT8 & admrs firmly by those
                    prsents. Notwithstanding which the said John Allen the said sume
                    of fourteene thousand Eight hundred fifty One pounds of tobacco
                    to him the said Samuel though often thereunto required according
                    to the tenor of the said writeing Obligatory hath not paid but the
                    same to pay hath denyed & refused & Still doth refuse & deny to pay
                    the same Whereupon the Said Samuel saith he hath losse & damage
                    to the value of five & twenty thousand pounds of tobacco And there
                    upon he bringeth his suite
                     And the said John Allen by John Jones his Attorny cometh &
                    defendeth the force and injury when &c & prayeth liberty of Speake
                    ing hereunto untill the next Court & it is granted him the same day
                    is given to the said Samuel
                     Att which next Court to witt the Eighth day of October Anno
                    Doth 1677 Came the said Samuel by his Said Attorny & offered him-