Provincial Court Proceedings, 1679/80. 241

Nor had at the afores^d first day of Aprill nor att any time after-
wards, and this hee is ready to verifie, Whereupon hee prayeth Judgm
if the said plantiffes their accon aforesaid against him ought to
have
And the said Thomas Carlile John Wattson Rob^t Graham and
W^m Hatton Say that they by any thing afore aleadged ought not to
bee debarred from haveing their accon because they Say that the said
John Addison att the day of the Issueing forth of the orriginall
writt of them the said Thomas John Rob^t & William had not fully
administred all, and Singuler the goods & Chattles w^ch were the said
Nicholas Proddyes att the time of his death in his hands iu bee
Administred to the Vallue of the debt aforesaid, whereby hee might
have Satisfyed the debt aforesaid, and this they pray may bee En-
quired of by the Country Whereupon day is given to both ptyes
untill next prov^ll Court

Liber W. C.

Now here att this day to witt the Thirteenth day of May in the
ffifth yeare of the Dominion of the Right hono^ble Charles Lord Bal-
temore &c Annoq Dominj 1680 Came the said Thomas Carlile John
Wattson Rob^t Grayham & William Hatton and offered themselves
against the said John Addison in the plea aforesaid, but the said
John Addison came not but made Default Therefore Itt is Con-
sidered that the said Thomas Carile John Wattson Robert Grayham
and William Hatton Executo^rs of the said John Cuningham, Re-
cover against the said John Addison Executo^r of y^e said Nicholas
Proddy as aforesaid aswell the aforesaid Sume of ffive Thousand
Eight hundred and ffifty pounds of Tobacco Debt, as also the
Sume of pounds of Tobacco Costs of Suite And
the deft in Mercy &c

Whereas upon Complaint made unto this Court by Henry Cole
of Calvert County, That the Comissioners of the said County had
Raysed and Caused to bee Leavyed upon the Inhabitants of the said
County more Tobacco p Poll then is Justifiable by Law. Whereupon
Itt was ffformerly Ordered by this Court, that the Comission" of
the sayd County should Transmitt unto the Justices of this Court
afaire Transcript of y^e Leavy for the County aforesaid for the
Yeare 1678, W^ch being duely returned und^r the hands and seales of
Samuell Bourne Roger Brooke Thomas Sterling and Rob^t Heigh
gentl Comission^rs of the said County Court, & by the Justices of this
Court Every pticuler Article thereof seriously and Deliberately
Viewed and Considered of, Itt appeareth unto the Justices here that
the Comission" of the County Court aforesayd have Unduely
Raysed and Leavyed Upon the Inhabitants of the County aforesaid
the sume of Twenty Six thousand Nine hundred Sixty Six pounds
of Tobacco Whereupon Itt is ordered by the Court here that his
Lopps Writt of Scire facias issue to the Comissioners of the said

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