102 Provincial Court Proceedings, 1678/9.

Liber N N

Sume of five hundred thirty eight pounds three shillings and tenn
pence sterling, Soe that there remaines due to ballance from the said
John Brooke to the said John & Thomas Dudlestone the Sume of
Seventy fiue pounds sterling & two thousand three hundred fifty &
eight pounds of tobacco Yet the said John Brooke in his life nor
the said Rebecca since his death to whom Admcon of all & singuler
the Goods Chattells rights & creditts of the said John att the tyme
of his death were comitted while she was sole, nor the said Thomas &
Rebeccah since Espousalls between them celebrated the said Sume
of Seventy fiue pounds sterling & two thousand three hundred fifty
eight pounds of tobacco to the said John & Thomas haue not paid
nor satisfied, but the same to them hitherto to pay haue denyed &
still doe deny, whereupon the said John & Thomas say they are
damnified & haue losse to the Value of twenty thousand pounds of
tobacco & thereupon they bring their suite
And the said Thomas & Rebeccah by Robert Ridgely their Attorney

come & defend the force & injury when &c and pray liberty to im-

parle hereunto untill next Provinciall Court & itt is granted unto
them, the same day is given to the plaintiffes also

p. 768

Now here att this day to witt the Thirteenth day of March In the
fourth yeare of the Dominion of Charles Lord Baltemore &c Annoq
Doni 1678. cometh the said parties by their Attorneys aforesaid
And The said John & Thomas Dudlestone by their said Attorney say
that they will make no further prosecution ag^t the said Thomas &
Rebecca in the plea aforesaid Therefore itt is considered that the
said John & Thomas Dudlestone take nothing by their writt but be
in mercy for their false claime thereupon prosecuted And that the
said Thomas & Rebeccah goe thereof without day And that the said
Thomas & Rebeccah recover against the said John & Thomas Dudle-
stone the sume of Seven hundred sixty nine pounds of tobacco for
their costs & charges by them about their defence in this behalfe laid
out & expended, to the said Thomas & Rebeccah by the discretion of
the Justices here adjudged And that the said Thomas and Rebeccah
may haue thereof Execucon.

Kenelm Cheseldyn Ex^r
John Jones
ag^t
John Quigley

John Quigley late of S^t Maryes County
otherwise called John Quigley of the City
of S^t Maryes in the Province of Maryland
gentl was Sufhoned to Answer unto Kenelm
Cheseldyn Exec^r of the last Will & testa-