22 Provincial Court Proceedings, 1679.

Liber W. C.

any wayes concerne, of & for all costs damages & expences Interest
Exchange & Reexchance by reason of the non acceptance allready
had & sustained & hereafter to be had & sustained for to recover the
same according to Law & Justice, All which was done & protested
by the said Abraham De Smith, Notary publick & tabellion royall
lawfully authorized the day & yeare aforesaid And because the said
Notary was p^rsent & did see heare & know all the said things acted
& done as they are before recited the day & place aforesaid, he did
therefore to a certaine instrument of Protest subscribe his name and
putt to his wonted & accustomed Seale being requested to Certifie
& testifie the p^rmisses, which said instrument of Protest is by the
said Jacob Leisler here in Court produced Yet the aforesaid Marke
Cordea his promise & assumption so as aforesaid made little reguard-
ing, but plotting contriving and fraudulently intending him the said
Jacob Leisler of the said Ninety Eight pounds craftily & subtily to
deceive & defraud, the said ninety Eight pounds to him the said
Jacob hath not paid although he hath bin often thereunto requested,
but doth utterly refuse to pay the same, by which the said Jacob
Leisler the whole profitt gaines & advantage which he with the
said Ninety Eight pounds sterling if itt had bin paid him according
to the promise of the said Marke Cordea in the behalfe made, by
buying selling & lawfully bargaining with the same might have had &
gained is now totally lost & deprived of, whereupon he saith he is
damnified & hath damage to the Value of two hundred pounds
sterling, & thereupon he bringeth his suite And the said Jacob bring-
eth here into Court as well the said bill of Exchange as the instru-
ment of Protest, whereby the p^rmisses may the more sufficiently
appeare unto the Court in manner & forme as is aforesaid
And the said Marke Cordea by Robert Carvile his Attorney com-
eth & defendeth the force & injury when &c and prayeth liberty to
imparle hereunto untill next Provinciall Court, & itt is granted unto
him, the same day is given to the plaintiffe also.

p. 22

Now here att this day to witt the fifteenth day of Octob^r in the
fourth yeare of the Dominion of the right Hon^ble Charles Lord
Baltemore &c Annoq Doni 1679 came the said the said parties by
their Attorneys aforesaid And the said Marke Cordea by his said
Attorney saith, that he can not gainsay the said action of the said
Jacob Leisler, for that the said Jacob ought to recover against the
said Marke Cordea the aforesaid sume of Eight ninety Eight pounds
sterl with thirty per Cent damages Therefore itt is considered that
the said Jacob Leisler recover against the said Marke Cordea as well
the aforesaid Sume of Ninety Eight pounds of sterling together
with twenty nine pounds Eight shillings damages And also five
hundred ninety two pounds of tobacco costs of suite And the Defend^t
in mercy &c