Provincial Court Proceedings, 1678. 33

Attorney saith, that whereas the said W^m Williams in his life tyme
to witt the fifteenth day of May Anno Dni One thousand six hun-
dred seventy Eight by his certaine bill Obligatory Sealed with the
Seale of him the said William & here in Court produced whose date
is the day & yeare aforesaid, did acknowledge himselfe to owe &
stand justly indebted unto the said Thomas Notley in the full &
just quantity of two Thousand five hundred pounds of good sound
M^rchantable leafe tobacco & cask to containe itt, to be be paid to the
said Thomas Notley his heyres Exec^rs Adm^rs or assignes convenient
in the said County of S^t Maryes att or before the tenth day of
October next ensueing the date of the same bill Obligatory, to the
which paym^t well & truely to be made the said W^m Williams did
binde himselfe his heyres Exec^rs & Adm^rs firmly by those p^rsents
Notwithstanding which the said W^m Williams in his life tyme nor
the said Jane since his death (to whom Administ^con of all and singu-
ler the Goods Chattells rights & Creditts which were of the said
W^m Williams in his life Tyme since his death hath bin comitted)
the said Suine of two thousand five hundred pounds of tobacco to
him the said Thomas Notley according to the tenour of the said
Bill Obligatory although often thereunto required hath not paid or
satisfied, but the same to pay or or satisfie hath denyed & as yet doth
deny whereupon the said Thomas Notley saith he is damnified &
hath losse to the Value of three thousand pounds of tobacco & there-
upon he produceth his suite

Liber N N

And the said Jane Williams by Kenelm Cheseldyn her Attorney
cometh & defendeth the force & injury when &c And saith that she
can say nothing in barr of the action of the said Thomas, but that
the said Thomas the said Suine of two thousand five hundred pounds
of tobacco above declared for ought to recove^r out of the Estate of
the said W^m Williams Therefore itt is consid^red by the Court here
that the said Thomas Notley recover against the Estate of the said
W^m Williams as well the said sume of two thousand five hundred
pounds of tobacco debt As also ffive hundred & Sixteen pounds of
tobacco costs of suite And the Defend^t in mercy &c

p. 706

Peter Quodman
ag^t
Jn^o Browning
Adm^r Jn^o Gilbert

John Browning late of Cecil County Adm^r of the
Goods and Chattels of John Gilbert was Attached
to Answer unto Peter Quodman of a plea of tres-
pas of the case