238 Provincial Court Proceedings, 1679/80.

Liber W. C.

of Thirty Thousand pounds of Tobacco a Certaine debt for damages
Recovered against him Att a Provinciall Court held here the Eleav-
enth day of May in the ffifth Yeare of the Dominion of the Right
hono^ble Charles Lord Baltemore &c Annoq Dominj 1680 by Ben-
jamin Rozer Esq^r whereof hee is Convicted as also the sume of
Six hundred and Eight pounds of Tobacco Costs of Suite, and
when hee had the Same Soe made or any part thereof the same in
his Custody to Keepe Soe that hee have the same here the Eleaventh
day of May in the ffifth Yeare of the Dominion of the Right hono^ble
Charles L^d Baltemore &c. Annoq Domini 1680 To Rend^r to the said
Benjamin Rozer: On w^ch said Eleaventh day of May Majo^r William
Boarman sheriffe of the County aforesaid made Returne of the
writt aforesaid That by Vertue thereof hee hath Executed in the
hands of Gerrard Slye the Quantity of Seaven thousand one hun-
dred Eighty five pounds of Tobacco

Arthur Sawyer

ag^t
Edward Gibbs

Edward Gibbs late of Somersett County in the
Province of Maryland Marchant was Sumoned to
answere unto Arthur Sawyer of Bristoll Marchant

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of a plea that hee Render unto him his reasonable
accompt for the time hee was Receiver of the goods wares Mar-
chandizes and Tobaccoes of him the said Arthur to the proffitt of the
said Arthur W^cn to him to Rend^r hee ought
And whereupon the said Arthur Sawyer by George Parker his
Attorney sayth That Whereas the said Edward Gibbs was Receiver
of the goods wares Marchandizes and Tobaccoes of him the said
Arthur, And that the said Edward Gibbs the ninth day of October in
the Yeare of our Lord god one Thousand Six hundred Seaventy
foure Did Receive by the hands of the said Arthur att the Citty of
Bristoll abroad of the Shipp Sarah and Elizabeth John Holdbor-
rough Master. Goods wares and Marchandizes to the vallue of ffifty
Seaven pounds Two Shillings and Eleaven pence halfpenny SterT,
And also that Whereas the said Edward Gibbs afterwards (to witt)
the latter end of the Moneth of December in the Yeare of our Lord
god one thousand six hundred Seaventy five Did Receive by the
hands of John ffoyler Comand^r of the Shipp the Lilly dogger of
London Goods wares and Marchandizes to the Vallue of one hun-
dred Seaventy five pounds one Shilling three pence half penny Stert
Amounting in the whole to the Sume of Two hundred thirty two
pounds ffoure shillings and three pence Sterling, of him the said
Arthur Sawyer his owne proper goods wares and Marchandizes, To
Trade and Marchandize with all for the proper account most benifitt
and best advantage of the said Arthur Sawyer and to Rend^r his
Reasonable Account of the Sales and produce of the said goods
wares & Marchandizes unto the said Arthur Sawyer when there-
unto required, Neverthelesse the Said Edward Gibbs Although
often thereunto required hath not Rendre^d his Reasonable account