Provincial Court Proceedings, 1679/80. 383

Suffered for want of payment of the said bill, All w^ch the said
Notary because hee was p^rsent and did see the same and did see
heare and Know all the said things acted and done as they are
before Recited the day and yeare and place aforesaid Did therefore
to a Certaine Instrument of protest (being requested) Subscribe his
name, and putt to his wonted & accustomed seale to Certifie and testify
the premisses, w^ch Said Instrument of protest is by the said John
here in Court produced, Now the said Joseph Pile Little reguarding
his promise and assumption to the said John made as aforesaid but
plotting and fraudulently intending him the said John to deceive and
defraude of the said ffoure pounds sixteene shillings and two pence
sterl. The same ffoure pounds sixteen shillings and Two pence sterl
to him the said John hath not paid although hee hath been often
thereunto required, but doth utterly refuse to pay the same By w^ch
the said John the whole proffitt gaines and advantage w^ch hee w^th
the said foure pounds sixteene shillings and Two pence, if it had
been paid to the said John (according to the promise of the said
Joseph in that behalfe made) by buying and selling and Lawfully
bargaining with the same, might have had and gained, it now Totally
lost and Deprived off Whereupon the said John saith hee is Damni-
fyed and hath losse to the Vallue of Nine pounds stert and there-
upon hee bringeth his suite.
And the said John bringeth hereinto Court aswell the said bill
of Exchange as the instrument of protest Whereby the premisses
may the more sufficiently appeare unto the Court in Manner and
forme aforesaid
Now here att this day to witt the seaventeenth day of ffebruary
in the sixth yeare of the Dominion of the Right Hono^ble Charles
Lord Baltemore &c Annoq Dominj 1680 The aforesaid Joseph Pile
by Charles Boteler his Attorney Cometh and defendeth the force
and injury when &c and sayth that hee cannot gainsay the accon
aforesaid of the aforesaid John Nor but that hee oweth to the
afores^d John the aforesaid Sume of ffoure pounds sixteen shillings
and two pence sterl in manner and forme as the aforesaid John
against him hath Declared, Therefore Itt is Considered by the Court
here That the aforesaid John Recover against the aforesd Joseph
aswell his debt of ffoure pounds sixteene shillings and two pence
sterl aforesaid, as also his damages by occasion of deteyning his
debt aforesaid to thirty shillings sterl, in all amounting to the sume
of six pounds six shillings and Two pence sterling money, and also
the sume of six hundred pounds of Tobacco Costs of suite in this
behalfe expended, To the said John of his assent by the Court here
adjudged, and the said Joseph in mercy &c Provided Execucon of
the same Judgment doe cease untill the Tenth day of Aprill now
next Comeing
Ridgely p quer :
Ch: Boteler p deft

Liber W. C.