72 Provincial Court Proceedings, 1678.

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seven hundred seventy one pounds of tobacco for costs of suite.
Jasper Howley informed your Hono^r that he was Copartner with
the said Davis And that part of the Goods pretended to be left in
yo^r peticon^rs possession did properly belong to him the said Howley,

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which Informacon was Altogether false, neither was the said Howley
any way concerned as Copartner with the said Davis, neither was
any of the said Davis's Goods left in yo^r peticons possession, but
was himselfe much a sufferer by Cap^t Allens Troop carrying away
with them severall of his own proper Goods Nevertheles judgem^t
hath passed ag^t him which with damages & costs amounts to Seven
thousand four hundred fifty one pounds of tobacco, which should
yo^r peticon pay would with his other losses ruinate him & his ffamily
The p^rmisses considered And for that yo^r peticon^r had never any of
the Goods of the said Davis in his possession (as was pretended)
he doth humbly request yo^r Hono^rs favourable consideracon of the
p^rmisses & to doe therein what to yo^r Hono^r shall seem most agree-
able with Equity & good conscience
On the backside of the aforegoing peticon was written Viz^t I am
willing to remitt unto the peticon^r Thomas Binkes the moiety of the
Judgem^t obtained against him upon the within menconed Infor-
macon And doe hereby order that Jasper Howley by himselfe or his
Attorney by mocon to his Lordpps Justices att the next Provinciall
Court request, that Execucon may issue for the remainder of the
said judgem^t with costs of suite Given under my hand the twenty
ninth day of June in the third yeare of his Lordpps Dominion &c
Annoq Doni 1678.
Thoma Notley
Now here att this day to witt the Sixteenth day of October in the
third yeare of the Dominion of Charles Lord Baltemore &c Annoq
Doni 1678 came the said Jasper Howley by Christopher Rousby his
Attorney And the aforegoing peticon & Endorsem^t being read lit
is Ordered by the Court here that Execucon issue for two Thousand
seven hundred Seventy & one pounds of tobacco being the remaind^s
of the judgem^t aforesaid Together with two thousand three hundred
& forty pounds of tobacco costs of suite And that the said Jasper
pay unto Benj^a Rozer Esq^r so much tobacco as the said Benjamin
paid for ffees upon tryall of the cause

Richard Covell
ag^t
Edward Gunnell

Whereas by vertue of a Comission directed to us
whose names are hereunto subscribed from the
right Hon^ble the Lord Prop^ry of this Province
bearing date the Eighteenth day of June last past