154      Provincial Court Proceedings, 1681/1682.

      Liber W. C. Symon Edwards & Susanna his wife Memorandum the fourth
          p. 523 & Jno Gyatt & Alice his wife late wife day of October in ye sixth
                  of Samuel Graves decd. Executrixes yeare of the Dominion of
                 of Demetrius Cartwright deceased Charles absolute Lord and
                            agt            Propry of this Province Att
           Kenelm Cheseldyn gentt          a Provinciall Court held at
                                           the Citty of st Maryes for
                 the said Right honoble Lord Propry Came here into Court Symon
                 Edwards and susanna his wife & John Gyatt and Alice his wife
                 late wife of Samuel Graves decd Executrixes of the Last will and
                 Testament of Demetrius Cartwright late of Calvert County Inn-
                 holder deed by Charles Boteler their Attorney & Exhibitt their cer
                 tame bill of Complaint against Kenelm Cheseldyn gentt. one of the
                 Attorneys of this Court here prsent in Court of a plea that he
                 Render unto them the Sume of Two thousand foure hundred pounds
                 of good sound Marchantable Leafe tobacco in Caske to them
                 he oweth & unjustly doth detaine
                   And Whereupon the said Simon and Susanna his wife & the said
                 John & Alice his wife by Charles Boteler their Attorney say That
                 whereas the said Kenelm Cheseldyn upon the five and Twentyeth
                 day of May in the yeare of Our Lord God 1672 By his certaine bill
                 Obligatory sealed with the seale of him the said Kenelm and here
                 in Court Produced whose date is the day and yeare first above
                 written did owe & was indebted unto Demetrius Cartwright afore
                 said the full and Just sume of Two thousand foure hundred pounds
                 of good sound Marchantable Leafe Tobacco in Caske to be payd
                 at some convenient place in Petuxent River upon Demand unto
                 him the said Demetrius Cartwright his heires Executors Admrs or
                 Assignes To the wch payment well and truely to be made the said
                 Kenelm Cheseldyn did binde himself by his heires Executors and
                 Admrs firmely by those presents Neverthelesse the said Kenelm
                 Cheseldyn the said sume of Two thousand fniire hundred pounds
                 of tobacco though often thereunto required unto the said Demetrius
                 Cartwright in his life time hath not payd Nor unto the said Symon
                 Edwards and susanna his wife Nor unto the said samuel Graves
                 nor Alice his wife in the life time of the said samuel Nor unto
                 the said Alice after the death of the said samuel whilst she was
                 sole Nor unto the said John Gyatt and Alice his wife since their
                 Nuptialls Nor unto any or Either of them. To wch said susanna and
                 Alice ye Execution of the Testament aforesaid by the honoble the
                 Judge for Probate of wills and Testaments and granting Adminis
                 tracons within this Province hath beene Comitted But the said
                 Two thousand foure hundred pounds of Tobacco hitherto to pay
                 hath denyed and still doth denye Whereupon the said symon and
                 susanna and the said John & Alice say they are Damnified & have
                 Losse to the vallue of three thousand pounds of tobacco And there
                 upon they bring their suite, And that it may appeare to the Court