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38 Provincial Court Proceedings, 1679.
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Liber W. C.
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of the said Samuell att the tyme of his death to him comitted, nor
yet hath fully Administred the same And of this he putts himselfe
upon the Countrey, whereupon day is given to both parties untill
next Provinciall Court
Now here att this day to witt the fifteenth day of Octobr in the
fourth yeare of the Dominion of the right Honble Charles Lord Bal-
temore &c Annoq Doni 1679 came the said John Barnes by his
Attorney and offered himselfe against the said Mark Cordea in the
plea aforesaid, but the said Mark Cordea came not but made de-
fault Therefore itt is considered that the said John Barnes recover
against the said Marke Cordea Admr as aforesaid as well the sume
of Eighteen hundred & forty pounds of tobacco debt As also seven
hundred thirty Eight pounds of tobacco costs of suite And the
Defendt in mercy
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Cuthbert Scott
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John Barnes
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]John Barnes late of St Maryes County otherwise
called John Barnes of St Maryes City Innholder
was Sumoned to Answer unto Cuthbert Scott of a
plea that he render unto him two thousand six hun-
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dred pounds of tobacco which to him he oweth & unjustly detaineth.
And whereupon the said Cuthbert by Robert Carvile his Attorney
saith, that whereas the said John upon the Seventeenth day of June
Anno Doni One thousand Six hundred Seventy Eight, by his cer-
taine bill or writeing obligatory sealed with the Seale of him the
said John & here in Court produced whose date is the day & yeare
abovesaid did binde himselfe to pay or cause to be paid to the said
Cuthbert Scott his heyres or assignes the just & full sume or quantity
of two thousand Six hundred pounds of good sound Mrchantable
tobacco in cask to be paid convenient in Calvert County upon all
demands. Yet notwithstanding the said John the said Sume of two
thousand six hundred pounds of tobacco to him the said Cuthbert
though thereunto often requested hath not paid or satisfied, but the
same to pay & satisfie hath denyed & refused & still doth deny to
pay the same to the damage of the said Cuthbert foure thousand
pounds of tobacco & thereupon he bringeth his suite
And the said John Barnes by Kenelm Cheseldyn his Attorney
cometh & defendeth the force & injury when &c and prayeth liberty
to imparle hereunto untill next Provincial Court & itt is granted unto
him, the same day is given to the plaintiffe likewise
Att which the said next Provinciall Court to witt the the Thir-
teenth day of Octobr in the foure yeare of the Dominion of the
right Honble Charles Lord Baltemore &c Annoq Doni 1679 came
the said parties by their Attorneys aforesaid And the said John
Barnes by his said Attorney saith that he is not informed by the said
John of any Answer by him to the action of the said Cuthbert to be
given And nothing else saith thereupon by which the said Cuthbert
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