8 Provincial Court Proceedings, 1678.

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place in Talbot County aforesaid within one Mile of some convenient
landing place in full & cleere discharge of one obligacon of the penall
sume of Thirteen Thousand three hundred forty & foure pounds of
good sound & every way well condiconed M^rchantable tobacco in
cask wherein the said Peter Sayer & John Brooke stand jointly &
severally bound together with the said Jn^o Quigley for the true paym^t
of six thousand nine hundred Twenty & two pounds to James Stavely
M^rchant upon the twentieth day of October now next ensueing the
date hereof without any fraud or further delay That then this Obli-
gacon shall be void & of none effect, otherwise to stand & remaine
in full force strength & Vertue Which words being read & heard
the said John Quigley by his Attorney aforesaid prayeth liberty to
imparle hereunto untill next Provinc^l Court & itt is granted unto him,
the same day is given to the plaintifs also
Now here att this day to witt the ffifteenth day of October in
the third yeare of the Dominion of Charles Lord Baltemore &^c
Annoq Doni 1678 cometh as well the said plaintiffes as the said
Defend^t by their Attorneys aforesaid And the said Defend^t saith
nothing in barre or avoidance of the action aforesaid of the said
Peter Sayer & John Brooke Whereby the said Peter & John remaine
against the said John Quigley thereof wholy undefended Therefore
itt is considered by the Court here that the said Peter Sayer & John
Brooke recover against the said John Quigley as well the sume of
Twenty six thousand six hundred Eighty & Eight pounds of tobacco
debt As also ffive hundred twenty foure pounds of tobacco costs of
suite So that Execution thereof cease untill next Provinciall Court
And the said John Quigley in mercy

John Staynes
ag^t
Ann Jones

Ann Jones late of the Cliffts in Calvert County Wid-
dow was Attached to Answer unto John Staynes of a
plea of trespas on the case.

And whereupon the said John Staynes by George
Parker his Attorney complaineth, that whereas the said John Staynes
between the five & twentieth day of ffebruary One thousand six
hundred Seventy & five & the twenty ninth day of July One thou-
sand six hundred seventy & six att his store upon the Clifts in Cal-
vert County att the speciall instance & request of the said Ann Jones
had sold & delivered unto the said Ann Jones severall Goods Wares
& M^rchandizes amounting in the whole to the full sume of Two
Thousand One hundred Eighty & nine pounds of tobacco a particuler
whereof by the said John Staynes is here in Court produced, the
said Ann Jones in consideracon thereof att the Cliffts aforesaid upon
herselfe did assume & to the said John Staynes then & there faith-
fully promise that she the said Ann the aforesaid Sume of two thou-
sand One hundred eighty & nine pounds of tobacco to the said John

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Staynes when she should be thereunto Required well & faithfully