26 Provincial Court Proceedings, 1679,

Liber W. C. p. 25

Wm Cole & ux: Execx Roch ford agt Gerard Slye Admr Chillman

Gerard Slye late of St Maryes County Admr of all and singuler the Goods & Chattles of Richard Chillman deceased was Sumoned to Answer unto Wm Cole & Margarett his wife Exx of the last Will & testamt of Michael Rochford deceased of a plea that he render unto them the Sume of

two thousand pounds of tobacco which from them he unjustly
detaines

And whereupon the said W^m & Margarett by Robert Carvile their
Attorney say, that whereas the said Richard upon the fourth day of
April in the yeare of our Lord One thousand six hundred Seventy
Eight, by his certaine bill or writing obligatory Sealed with the
Seale of the said Richard & here in Court produced whose date
is the day & yeare abovesaid did confesse & acknowledge himselfe
to be holden & firmly bound unto the said Michael in the just & full
Sume of two thousand pounds of good sound & M^rchantable tobacco
in caske to be paid to the said Michael his Exec^rs Adm^rs or assignes
att or before the tenth day of Octob^r then next in some convenient
place in Petuxent or S^t Maryes County To which payment well &
truely to be made he bound himselfe his heyres Ex^rs & Adm^rs by
those p^rsents Yet notwithstanding the said Richard in his life tyme
or the said Gerard since his death the said Sume of two thousand
pounds of tobacco to the said Michael in his life tyme or to the said
Margarett since his death while she was sole, nor to the said W^m and
Margarett since their intermarriage though often thereunto requested
hath not paid or satisfied, but the same to pay & satisfie hath hitherto
& still doth deny & refuse to the damage of the said W^m & Margaret
three thousand pounds of tobacco & thereupon they bring their suite
And the said William and Margarett bring here her Letters Testa-
mentory, whereby itt may appeare to the Court here that she is
Exec^x & right hath of Administracon

And the said Gerard Slye by Christopher Rousby his Attorney
cometh & defendeth the force & injury when &c and saith that he is
not informed by the said Gerard of any Answer by him to the action
of the said W^m & Margaret to be given, & nothing else saith there-
upon, by which the said plaintiff remaineth against the said Defend^t
therefore wholy undefended Therefore itt is considered by the Court
here 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 that the said W^m Cole and Margarett his wife
Exec^x as aforesaid recover against the said Gerard Slye Adm^r as
aforesaid as well the Sume of two thousand pounds of tobacco debt
As also six hundred Sixty two pounds of tobacco costs of suite And
the Defend^t in mercy &c