Provincial Court Proceedings, 1678/9. 115

quantity of Six thousand One hundred Eighty nine pounds of good
sound M^rchnatable leafe tobacco in cask to be paid to the said Ben-
jamin Rozer his heyres Exec^rs Adm^rs or assignes in some convenient
place in Charles County att or before the tenth day of Octob^r next
ensueing the date of the same bill. To the which paym^t well & truely

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to be Made the said George did binde himselfe his heyres Ex^rs &
Adm^rs firmly by those p^rsents Notwithstanding which the said
George Thompson though often thereunto required the said six
thousand one hundred Eighty nine pounds of tobacco according to
the tenour forme & effect of the same bill hath not paid nor satisfied,
but the same to pay hitherto hath denyed & still doth deny, where-
upon the said Benjamin saith he is damnified & hath losse to the
Value of tenn thousand pounds of tobacco & thereupon he bringeth
his suite
And the said George Thompson in his proper person cometh &
defendeth the force & injury when &c and saith that he cannot gain-
say the said action of the said Benjamin, for that he hath not paid
to the said Benjamin the said sume of Six thousand One hundred
Eighty nine pounds of tobacco in discharge of the said recited bill
or writeing obligatory, which to him he ought to haue paid accord-
ing to the forme & effect of the aforesaid bill Therefore itt is con-
sidered this day to witt the thirteenth day of March in the fourth
yeare of the Dominion of Charles Lord Baltemore &c Annoq Doni
1678 that the said Benjamin Rozer recover against the said Geo :
Thompson the aforesaid Suine of six thousand one hundred eighty
nine pounds of tobacco debt As also pounds
of tobacco costs of suite And the Defend^t in mercy &c^a

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George Lewen

ag^t
Ja: Derumple &
ux Exec^rs Clemens

James Derumple late of Talbot County planter
& Mary his wife Exec^rs of last Will & testam^t
of John Clentens deceased were Summed to
Answer unto George Lewen of Poole M^rchant in
a plea that they render unto him ffive thousand