332 Provincial Court Proceedings, 1679/80.

Liber W. C.
p. 303

rendred, nor the said bills in kind have Returned or either of them
hath Returned to the said John Richardson though often thereunto
Required, Whereby the said John Richardson is utterly disabled
to Recover the aforesaid debts or either of them To the Damage
of the said John Richardson Three Thousand ffive hundred pounds
of Tobacco, & thereupon hee brings his suite
And the said W^m Dare by Robert Ridgely his Attorney Cometh
and defendeth the force and injury when &c and prayeth Liberty
to imparle hereunto untill next Provinciall Court and it is granted
unto him, the same day is given to the plt also.
Now here att this day to witt the Nineteenth day of ffebruary
in the Sixth yeare of the Dominion of the Right hono^ble Charles
Lord Baltemore &c Anno Dominj 1680 Came the said partyes by
their Attorneys aforesaid and the said William Dare by his said
Attorney sayth That the said John Richardson his accon aforesaid
against him ought not to have, because hee sayth that the said John
Parker in his life time, the said John Richardson One thousand nine
hundred twenty and foure pounds of Tobacco in full satis f accon
of the said bills in the sd Declaracon menconed did pay and Satisfy
To witt at Talbott County the Tenth day of Aprill 1672 w^ch with
Two hundred and thirteen pounds of Tobacco to bee allowed the
said John Parker for sallary for receiveing the same Amounteth to
the Sume of Two Thousand One hundred thirty seaven pounds of
Tobacco in the sd Declaracon mentioned and this hee is Ready to
averre Whereupon hee demands Judgment whether the said plt his
accon aforesaid against him ought to have
Whereupon the said plantiffe Refuseth to make any further psecu-
con agt the said deft in the plea aforesaid. Therefore Itt is Con-
sidered that the said John Richardson take nothing by his writt
but bee in mercy for his false plaint thereupon, and that the said
William Dare doe goe thereof without day. and also that the said
William Dare doe Recover against the said John Richardson the
sume of Eight hundred ninety two pounds of Tobacco for his Costs
and charges by him about his defence in this behalfe Laid out &
Expended and the said William may have thereof Execution

John Richardson
ag^t
William Dare Adm^r
of John Parker

William Dare late of Cecill County Adm^r of
John Parker Marchant deceased was attached
to Answere unto John Richardson of a plea
of Trespasse upon the Case