84        Provincial Court Proceedings, 1677.

             Liber N N  death (to whom the execution of the Testament of the said Richd
                    since his death was committed) nor the Said Clement Henry &
                    Robert since the death of the said Elizabeth (to whom the execution
                    of the Testament of the said Elizabeth Since her death hath beene
                    comitted) the Said Summe of Eighteen hundred pounds of tobacco
                    according to the tenor of the Said bill Obligatory to him the said
                    Thomas in his life tyme nor to the said Rebecca while she was Sole
                    (to whom the execution of the Testament of the Said Thomas Since
                    his death hath been committed) nor to the said John and Rebecca
                    Since Espousalls betweene them celebrated have not paid though
                    often thereunto required but the same to pay have refused & denyed
                    & to pay the same as yet doe refuse & deny whereupon the said
                    John & Rebecca Say they are dampnified & have lost to the value
                    of two thousand foure hundred pounds of tobacco & thereupon they
                    produce their Suite. And the Said John & Rebecca bring into Lourt
                    here the Letters Testamentary to the said Rebecca granted that it
                    may appeare to the Court here that she of the Testament of the
                    Said Thomas is Executrix
                     And the Said Clement Henry & Robert by Robert Carvile their
                    Attorny come & defend the force & injury when &c and prayeth
                    liberty to imparle hereunto untill next Court & it is granted them
                    the same day is given to the plaintiffs
                     Att which Said next Court to witt the 5th day of October in the
                    Second yeare of the Dominion of Charles Lord Baltemore &c Annocp
                    Doth 1677 Came the said John & Rebecca & offered themselves
                    against the Said Clement Henry & Robert in the plea aforesaid & the
                    Said Clement Henry & Robert came also & Say nothing in barr of
                    the action aforesaid in forme aforesaid against them brought Where
                    upon it is granted by the Court here that the Said John Addison &
                    Rebecca his wife executrix of the Said Thomas Dent recover against
                    the estate of the said Richard Moy aswell the summe of Eighteen
                    hundred pounds of tobacco the debt aforesaid as also the Summe
                    of five hundred thirty & six pounds of tobacco costs of suite.

                                 John Cooper

                                     agt
                    Michael Miller
                            -‘ these two actions abate the ptts being dead.
                    John Jones
                                     agt
                    Philip Lynes

                    Richard Bayly
                                     agt

                                   Wm Dare
                the same
                     agt               these three actions are discontinued.
                    the same admr Jno Parker