Provincial Court Proceedings, 1679/80. 333

taine Inn, Ordinary, or house of accomodacon in Talbot County
aforesaid did Keepe, And whereas the said John Parker att the
speciall instance and Request of him the said Jn^o Parker at divers
dayes and times within the space and Compasse of the said time,
from the nineteenth of May 1670 untill the Two and Twentyeth of
ffebruary in the same yeare bought had and Received by himself
and by one John Webster & Jn^o Clements of him the said John

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Richardson Divers Quantityes of Liquors & other accomodacons att
the said house or Ordinary of him the said John Richardson & att
y^e request of him the said John Parker within the time aforesaid
had the help worke & Asistance of Two Servants of the said
John Richardsons, The one for the space of Nine dayes the other
for Eight dayes time, a pticuler of all w^ch accomodacon and work
or asistance is here in Court pduced amounting according to the
Rates and Vallues thereof to the Sume of One thousand Eight
hundred & Six pounds of Tobacco, Hee the said John Parker upon
the said Two & Twentyeth day of ffebruary 1670 Did in Consid-
eracon thereof assume upon himself and to the said John Richardson
did ffaithfully pmise That hee the said John Parker the said Sume
One thousand Eight hundred and six pounds of Tobacco when
thereunto required unto him the said John Richardson would well
and truly Content and pay Yet the said John Parker his pmise &
assumption aforesaid Little reguarding but plotting and Contriveing
him the Said John Richardson of the said One thousand Eight
hundred and Six pounds of Tobacco in that behalfe wholly to
defraude, The same One thousand Eight hundred and six pounds of
Tobacco in his life time or the said William Dare to whome
Admton of all the goods chattells and Credits of him the said John
Parker was by The Hono^ble Philip Calvert Esoj Comissary gent in
Maryland und^r the Right hono^fale the Lord Prop^ry Comitted, unto
him the said John Richardson have not payH, hut the same to pay
have refused, and the said William Dare still doth refuse Whereupon
the said John Richardson sayth hee is the worse and hath losse to
the Vallue of Three Thousand pounds of Tobacco, and thereupon
hee bringeth his suite
And the said William Dare by Robert Ridgely his Attorney
Cometh & Defendeth the force and injury when &c and Prayeth
Liberty to imparle hereunto untill the next Provinciall Court and
Itt is granted unto him the same day is given to the plantiffe 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 Annoq} Dominj 1680 Cause 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 saith that the said John Parker in his
life time (to witt) The Tenth day of November 1671 the said John

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