50 Provincial Court Proceedings, 1679.

Liber W. C.

comitted to the custody of W^m Chandler gentl high Sheriffe of
Charles County in Execution for the said twenty thousand & sixty
pounds of tobacco debt & the said five hundred thirty six pounds of
tobacco costs of suite, there to remaine in safe custody untill he shall
satisfie the said Abraham Blagg the debt & costs aforesaid
To the Hon^ble Philip Calvert Esq^r Chancelour of Maryld
& the rest of the Justices of the Provintiall Court
Att the Solicitacon of M^r W^m Wells who is a Prisoner att the
suite of M^r Abraham Blagg for special baile These may signifie to
yo^r Hono^rs that I will be speciall baile for him. Of if yo^r Hono^rs
please to ord^r him into the custody of the Sheriffe of Charles County
I doe hereby ingage he shall come & deliver himselfe into his hands,
otherwise I will pay the debt, this being all at p^rsent from
Octob^r 12th 1679 Yo^r Hono™ humble serv^t
Test Edm^d Dennis Benj^a Rozer

Jonathan Sibrey
ag^t
W^m Cole & ux
Ex^x Rochford

W^m Cole & Margaret his wife Exec^x of the last
Will & testam^t of Michael Rochford deceased were
Attached to Answer unto Jonathan Sibrey of a
plea of trespas of the Case

And whereupon the said Jonathan by Henry
Bonner his Attorney saith, that whereas the said Michael Rochford
upon the thirteenth day of May One thousand six hundred Seventy
eight stood justly indebted to the said Jonathan to the ballance of
accompt as by the copy of the accompt hereunto annexed may
appeare, the sume of three thousand Eight hundred forty eight
pounds of tobacco, he the said Michael Rochford in consideracon
thereof did assume upon himselfe & to the said Jonathan did faith-

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fully Promise, that he the said Michael the said Sume of three
thousand Eight hundred forty eight pounds of tobacco to him the
said Jonathan when he should be thereunto requested would well
& truely content & pay Yet notwithstanding the said Michael in his
life tyme or the said Margarett since his death while she was sole,
nor the said W^m & Margarett since their intermarriage the said Sume
of three thousand eight hundred forty eight pounds of tobacco to
him the said Jonathan though often thereunto requested have not
paid or satisfied, but the same to pay & satisfie have hitherto denyed
& still doe deny & refuse to pay the same to the damage of the said
Jonathan five thousand pounds of tobacco & thereupon he brings
his suite
And the said W^m & Margarett by Robert Carvile their Attorney
come & defend the force & injury when &c and say they have nothing
to say in barre of the action aforesaid above against them declared,
but that the said Jonathan should recover against them the said
Sume of three thousand Eight hundred forty eight pounds of tobacco
Therefore itt is considered by the Court here this day to witt the