96        Provincial Court Proceedings, 1677.

            Liber N N   his Seale here also in Court produced whose date is the same day
                    & yeare abovesaid did acknowledge himself e to be indebted unto the
                    Said Charles James the summe of foure hundred pounds of good
                    merchantable tobacco & caske to be paid to the said Charles James
                    or to his certaine Attorny his heirs executors admrs or assignes at
                    or upon the tenth day of November next ensueing the date thereof
                    To which payments aswell of the said three thousand pounds of
                    tobacco & caske as of the said foure hundred pounds of tobacco &
                    caske in all amounting to three thousand foure hundred pounds of
                    tobacco & caske well & truly to be made in manner & forme aforesaid
                    he the said Thomas Carleton did bind himself e his heirs executrs &
                    admrs firmly by those presents Yet the Said Thomas in his life time
                    and the said Arthur since his death to whom administration of all
                    the goods Chattells & Creditts of him the said Thomas was committed
                    the said three thousand pounds of tobacco & caske & the said foure
                    hundred pounds of tobacco & caske amounting to the Said three thou
                    sand foure hundred pounds of tobacco or any part thereof have not
                    paid nor either of them hath paid though often thereunto required
                    but the same to pay have denyed & the said Arthur Still doth deny to
                    the damage of the said Charles James foure thousand five hundred
                    pounds of tobacco & thereupon he brings his suite.
                       Now here at this day to wit at st Maries the sixth day of October
                    in the third yeare of the Dominion of Charles Lord Baltemore &c
                    Annocp Dom One thousand six hundred Seventy Seaven Came the
                    said Arthur Carleton in his proper person & saith nothing in barr of
                    the action aforesaid of him the Said Charles in forme aforesd
                    brought, Whereupon it is granted by the Court That the said Charles
                    James recover against the estate of the said Thomas Carleton aswell
                    the said summe of three thousand foure hundred pounds of tobacco
                    the debt aforesaid as also the summe of pounds of
                    tobacco costs of suite.

              To the Honble Thomas Notley Escp Cheife justice of the
              Provincial Court and the rest of the justices there.
                     The humble Petition of Henry Darnall
                          Sheriff of Calvert County.
                                    Sheweth
                       That yr Petitioners exhibited a bill of certaine charges for allow
                    ance from yr Honrs at the time of laying the Levy, amongst which
                    was charged & sett downe for executeing Severall Speciall writts and
                    warrants upon the Insurrectors at the Clifts, for which your Honrs
                    forbore to give allowance then, but directed yor Petitioner to move
                    yr Honrs at the sitting of the Court.
                        Your Petr therefore prayes That yr Honrs will consider of the
                        premisses and allow and Order yr Petitr for the said Speciall
                        writs & warrants what to yr Honts Shall seeme meet.