PROVINCIAL COURT PROCEEDINGS

                            1681
     Att a Provinciall Court held att the Citty of st Maryes the six and       Liber W. C.
     Twentyeth day of Aprill in the Sixth yeare of the Dominion of the          p. 385
     Right Honoble Charles Lord Baltemore &c Annoq Dominj One thou
     sand six hundred and eighty one, and there Continued untill the
     Second Day of May then next following: Att wch said Six and
     Twentyeth day of Aprill were Present

               Philip Calvert Esq Chancellor
               William Calvert Esq Principll Secretary
     The honoble Benjamin Rozer Esq
               Henry Darnall Esq
               William Steevens Esq
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    Wm Phelps      Edward Pindar late of Dorchestr County Admr
       agt of the goods & Chattles of William Foorde decd
     Edwd Pindar Admr was attached to answere unto William Phelps
     of Wm Foorde of a Plea of Trespasse of the case
                    And whereupon the said William Phelps by
     Robert Carvile his Attorney sayth That whereas the said William
     ifoorde upon the Ninth day of September in the yeare of Or Lord
     1678 stood Justly indebted unto the said William Phelps for divers
     sumes of Tobacco lent him the said William Foorde and paid for
     him to seaverall persons in his lifetime by his ordr, and for divers
     goods and Comodities sold and delivered to the said William ifoorde
     by the said William Phelps at seavll dayes & times from the fifteenth
     day of January 167 7/8 to the said Ninth day of September aforesaid,
     Amounting in the whole to the Sume of Eight thousand three hun
     dred sixty five pounds of Tobacco, Hee the said William ifoord did
     pay of the said Sume the sume of six thousand thirty Eight pounds
     of Tobacco and noe more, so that the said William ifoorde rested
     Debtor to the ballance of the said accompt the full and Just Sume of
     Two thousand three hundred twenty and Seaven pounds of Tobacco
     ao by a particulcr account thereof hereunto annexed may apeare, c, In
     consideracon whereof the said William ffoorde in his life time did
     assume upon him self and to the said William Phelps did faithfully
     promise That hee the said William ifoord the said Sume of Two
     thousand three hundred twenty seaven pounds of good Tobacco to
     him the said William Phelps when hee should be thereunto Required
     would well and truely Content and pay, Yet Notwthstanding the said
     William fford in his life time Nor the said Edward Pindar since his
     death the said Sume of Two thousand three hundred twenty seaven
     Pounds of Tobacco to him the said William Phelps according to the