378 Provincial Court Proceedings, i679/80.

Liber W. C.

accon aforesaid against him the said John ought not to have for
that hee Sayth hee did not pmise and assume upon himself in manner
and forme as the said Marke above against him hath Declared, and
of this hee puts himself upon the Country, And the plantiffe like-
wise. Itt is therefore Comanded the Sheriffe of S^t Maryes County
that hee Cawse to come here Twelve &c by whome &c and who
neither &c To Recognize &c because aswell &c
On w^ch said One and Twentyeth day of ffebruary in the yeare
aforesaid Came the said partyes by their Attorneys aforesaid, and
the Juro" impannelled being called Likewise came (To witt) An-
thony Dawson, Thomas Hinton, Simon Spratling. William Harper,
Jn^o Powell George Powell William Harris, Thomas, Waughopp
William Reede John Bailey, Henry Hardy, & Thomas Jones, Who
being elected Tryed and Sworne to say the truth in the premisses
Upon their Oathes doe say, That the said John ffisher did not
promise and Assume upon himself in manner and forme as the said
Marke above against him hath Declared Therefore Itt is Con-
sidered that the said Marke Cordea take nothing by his writt but
bee in mercy for his false Claime thereupon, and that the said John
ffisher may goe thereof without day, and that the said John ffisher
Recover against the said Marke Cordea the Sume of six hundred
ninety six pounds of Tobacco for his Costs and charges by him about
his defence in this behalfe Layd out and Expended, and the said John
May have thereof Execucon &c

Hugh Reynolds
ag^t
Thomas Hebb

Thomas Hebb late of S^t Maryes County was at-
tached to answ^r unto Hugh Reynolds of a plea of
Trespasse of the case

p. 347

And Whereupon the said Hugh by Robert Car-
vile his Attorney sayth That the said Hugh upon the six or seaven &
twentyeth day of May last past 1680 being posessed of one paire of
Stilliards & pea to the same belonging of the vallue of Eight hun-
dred pounds of Tobacco, w^ch the said Hugh had then before bor-
rowed of one Emanuel Ratliffe of S^t Georges hundred in the said
County and for w^ch the said Hugh was to make the said Emanuel
satisfaccon in case the same stilliards were lost or any wayes Spoyled,
and the Same stilliards being then on board the shipp Ann and
Elizabeth of Liverpoole whereof the said Hugh was Masf Then
Rideing att Anchor in st Georges River in the said County, Hee the
said Thomas comeing on board the said Shipp & being Sonn in Law
to the said Emanuel Ratliffe The said Hugh Desired the said
Thomas Hebb to take the said stilliards and pea into the custody of
him the said Thomas Hebb and to Carry the same safe home to the
house of the said Emanuel whether hee said hee was goeing, and
deliver the same to him the said Emanuel, w^ch hee Seemed willing
to doe, And thereupon the said Hugh to gratify the said Thomas