96 Provincial Court Proceedings, 1679/80.

Liber W. C.

John Peirce Exr John Peirce agt Tho: Gant Mary Browne agt Tho: Kemp

Unlesse the Defendts appeare next Court, the Sheriffe of Calvert County amerced

p. 87 WmDare Admr John Parker agt John Richardson

John Richardson late of Talbot County otherwise called John Richardson of Talbot County planter was Sumoned to Answer unto Wm Dare Admr of all & singuler the Goods Chattles rights & Creditts which were of John Parker deceased of a plea

that he render unto him the neat quantity of ffourteene thousand
twenty & nine pounds of good sound M^rchantable tobacco & caske
w^ch from him he unjustly detaineth

And whereupon the said W^m Dare by Robert Ridgely his At-
torney saith, that whereas the said John Richardson the twentieth
day of June one thousand six hundred & Seventy by his certaine
bill obligatory sealed with the Seale of him the said John Richardson
& here in Court produced whose date is the day & yeare aforesaid,
did binde himselfe his heyres Ex^rs Adm^rs & assignes to pay or cause
well & truely to be paid unto the said John Parker English M^rchant
his heyres Ex^rs Adm™ or assignes the neat quantity of ffourteene
thousand twenty & nine pounds of good sound M^rchantable tobacco
& caske without ground leaves or seconds according to Act of As-
sembly, paym^t thereof to be made att some convenient place in
Talbot County att or before the tenth day of Octob^r next ensuing
the date of the same bill Obligatory. Yet the aforesaid John Richard-
son the said Sume of ffourteen thousand twenty nine pounds of
tobbacco to him the said John Parker in his life tyme, nor to the
said W^m since his death to whom Adm^con of all & singuler the
Goods Chattles & Creditts which were of the said John Parker in his
life tyme since his death hath bin comitted according to the tenour
of the said bill obligatory although often thereunto required hath
not paid, but the same to pay hath denyed & as yet doth deny in
retardacon of the Adm^con of the Goods & Chattles of the said
John Park [er] & to the damage of the said W^m Dare twenty thou-
sand pounds of tobacco & thereupon he bringeth his suite. And
the aforesaid W^m Dare bringeth into Court here the Letters of
Adm^con to him granted of the Estate of the said John Parker
that itt may appeare to the Court here that he thereof hath the
Administration

And the said John Richardson by Christopher Rousby his At-
torney cometh & defendeth the force & injury when &c and prayeth