232 Provincial Court Proceedings, 1679.

Liber N N Which being read & heard the Goods abouesaid are condemned to his Lordpp according to Act of Assembly Maryland April the 6th Ano D. 16;

John Osborne Stephen Horsey 78

		Mr Robert Bloome Tenn dayes after sight of this my first bill of Exchange, the second third nor fourth not paid, pay unto the Right Honble Charles Lord Baltemore or his order the Sume of Twenty five pds two shillings & foure pence, itt being for imposition and port charges, & place itt to the Accompt of yor friend & servant John Longden To Mr Robert Bloome Mrchant in London By this publick Instrumt of Protest be itt knowne and manifest unto all those who shall see these prsents or heare the same read That on this day the twentieth of the Month of Septembr Anno Dni 1678. & in the thirtieth yeare of the reigne of our sovereigne Lord King Charles the second over England &c att the instance & request of the right Honble Charles Lord Baltemore I Anthony Wright Notary & Tabellion publick dwelling in London aforesaid by authority of his said Matie admitted & sworne, demanded of Mr Robert Bloome of London Mrchant if he would pay the Originall bill of Exchange
	p. 886	(whereof the copy is herebefore written Word for word) where- upon he Answered that he would not pay the said bill, by reason he oweth the drawer thereof nothing. Upon which Answer I the said Notary (att the request aforesaid haue Protested & by these prsents doe solemnly Protest as well against John Longden drawer of the said bill of Exchange as against all others whom itt doth or may concerne for Change & rechange, together with all costs damages & interests allready suffered & sustained & to be suffered & sustained for want of payment of the said bill of Exchange thus done & Pro- tested in London aforesaid in the prsence of Henry ffrog & Lawrence Cresse Witnesses hereunto required. Quod subsigno & salito tabel- lionatus sigillo attestor rogatus (locus sigillo) Ant: Wright Nots Pubcus Sep: 20: I :a 1678

Edward Bleeke & Compa agt Edward Gunnell

Edward Gunnell late of Baltemore County gentt was Sumoned to Answer unto Edward Bleeke & Compa Mrchants in London of a plea that he render unto them his reasonable accompt of the tyme he was Receiver of the Goods Mrchandizes

& tobaccoes of them the said Edward & Comp^a & which to them to

make justly he ought

And whereupon the said Edward & Comp^a by Robert Ridgely
their Attorney say, that whereas the aforesaid Edward was Receiver
of the Goods M^rchandizes & tobaccoes of them the said Edward &
Comp^a in the said Province of Maryland from the ffifteenth day of
September One thousand six hundred Seventy five untill the twen-