380 Provincial Court Proceedings, 1679/80.

Liber W. C.

said promise on, Whereas the Consideration Laid in the said Decla-
racon to ground the defts promise to the plt on is, That the Plan-
tiffe tooke the deft into the Cabbin of the said shipp and there
Civilly Treated the said deft, and gave him seaverall Drams of
Spirrits, and Strong beere and other Liquors, and Such other ac-
comodacon as the shipp afforded, and hath not sett forth what quan-
tity of Liquors, or what Vallue they were off, w^ch is altogether un-
certaine, and is therefore onely a Naked Contract from w^ch by Law
noe accon can arrise, And this hee is ready to Averre and therefore
demands Judgment of the said Dedaracon and if the said Hugh
Upon the Same his accon aforesaid Against him can maintaine, And
Hereupon the premisses being seen and by the Justices here fully
understood & Dilligently Examined Itt seemeth to the same Justices
here That the said writt of the aforesaid plantiffe and the Decla-
racon thereupon made are insufficient in Law to maintaine him the
said Hugh Reynolds to have his said accon against the said Thomas
Hebb, Therefore Itt is Considered that the said Hugh Reynolds take
nothing by his writt aforesaid but bee in mercy for his false plaint
thereupon, and iluu the said Thomas Hebb may goe thereof without
day. And that the said Thomas Hebb Recover against the said Hugh
Reynolds the sume of seaven hundred sixty nine pounds of Tobacco
for his Costs and charges by him about his defence in this behalfe
Laid out and Expended And the said Thomas may have thereof
Execucon

Martin Stampe
ag^t
Benjamin George &
Thomas George

Benjamin George and Thomas George late of
S^t Maryes County Plant^rs Otherwise called
Benjamin George and Thomas George both of
Poplar Hill in st Maryes County in the Prov-
ince of Maryland planters Were sumoned to

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answere unto Martin Stampe of the Citty of London in the King-
dome of England gentt of a plea that they render unto him the
full and Just sume of Tenn thousand pounds of good sound Mar-
chantable Tobacco & Casq w^ch to him they owe and unjustly detaine
And Whereupon the said Martin stampe by Robert Ridgely his
Attorney sayth That whereas the said Benjamin George and Thomas
George the fifteenth day of Apr ill Annoq Dominj 1680 by their
Certaine bond or writeing obligatory Sealed with the seale of them
the said Benjamin and George & here in Court produced whose
date is the same day and yeare aforesaid, Did acknowledge them-
selves to owe and stand Justly indebted unto the said Martin Stampe
of the Citty of London in the Kingdome of England gentl in the
full & Just Sume of Tenn thousand pounds of good sound Mar-
chantable Tobacco and Casq To be payed Conveniently in st Maryes
County to the said Martin Stampe his Lawfull Attorney Ex^rs Adm^rs
or assignes, To w^ch payment well and truely to bee made the said