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46 Provincial Court Proceedings, 1679.
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Liber W. C.
p. 44
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pds of tobacco to her the said Mary hath not paid or satisfied though
often thereunto requested, but the same to pay hath hitherto denyed
& refused & still doth deny & refuse to the damage of the said Mary
seven thousand pounds of tobacco and thereupon she bringeth her
suite
And the said William Crosse by Robert Ridgely his Attorney
cometh & defendeth the force & injury when &c and prayeth liberty
to imparle hereunto untill next Provinciall Court & itt is granted
unto him, the same day is given to the plaintiffe also
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
Baltemore &c Annoq Doni 1679 came the said partyes by their
Attorneys aforesaid And the said Wm by his said Attorney saith
that he prayeth judgemt of the bill aforesaid agt him filed by the said
Mary Clements, because he saith that the aforesaid Mary the day
of the fileing the bill aforesaid against the said Wm that is to say the
fourth day of March in the yeare of the Dominion of Charles &c
and continually afterwards was & still is covert of one James
Derumple her husband that is to say in Talbot County in the said
Province And this he is ready to averr, wherefore he prayes judgmt
of the same bill by the same Mary by the name of Mary Clements
widdow as a feme sole filed against him as aforesaid Whereupon the
said Mary Clements refuseth to make any further prosecution against
the said Wm Crosse in a plea aforesaid Therefore itt is considered
that the said Mary take nothing by the bill aforesaid, but be in
mercy for her false plaint And the said Defendt may goe thereof
without day
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Robert Carvile
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James Lewis
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James Lewis late of St Maryes County otherwise
called James Lewis of st Maryes County planter
was Attached to Answer unto Robert Carvile one
of the Attorneys of this Court according to the
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priviledges &c of a plea that he render unto him two thousand pounds
of tobacco which to him he oweth & unjustly detaineth
And whereupon the said Robert in his proper person saith that
whereas the said James upon the ninth day of ffebry by his certaine
bill or writeing obligatory sealed with the Seale of him the said
James & here in Court produced whose date is the day & yeare above-
said, did confesse & acknowledge himselfe to owe & stand justly
indebted unto the said Robert Carvile in the neate quantity of two
hundred pounds of good fatt beefe & two hundred pounds of good
fatt porke to be paid to the said Robert his Exrs Admrs or assignes
att his the said James Lewis's plantacon in St Michaels hundred att
or upon the tenth day of Novembr then next, To the which paymt
well & truely to be made he bound himselfe his heyres Execrs &
Admrs in the penall Sume of two thousand pounds of tobacco Yet
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