Provincial Court Proceedings, 1681/1682.  159

     sideration that the said John Braday at the speciall instance and         Liber W. C.
     request of him the said John Richardson would take to his wife
     the said Sarah & would marry her. Did then and there assume
     upon himself & to the said John Braday faithfully promise that he
     the said John Richardson would well and faithfully Content and
     pay to him the said John Braday the surne of One hundred Pounds
     of good and Lawfull money of England, and the said John Braday
     in ifact sayth that he the said John Braday trusting to the promise
     & Assumption of him the said John Richardson aforesaid, After
     wards to wit the sixth day of June in the yeare of Our Lord 1680
     aforesaid at Great Choptanke aforesaid Did with the consent and
     good likeing of the said John Richardson take to wife Espouse
     and marry the said Sarah, Yett the aforesaid John Richardson little
     regarding his promise & Assumption aforesaid, but plotting and
     fraudulently intending the aforesd John Braday in that behalfe to
     deceive and Defraud, the aforesaid One hundred pounds or any
     parcell thereof according to his Promise and Assumption a fore
     said hath not as yet paid nor in any manner for the same hitherto
     given Content Although he the said John Richardson by the said
     John Braday afterwards to wit the first day of Aprill in the yeare
     of our Lord 1681 at Greate Choptanke aforesaid hath beene there-
     unto required. By the said John Braday divers comodities proffits
     and advantages wch he with the aforesaid One hundred pounds by
     buying and selling might have had & gained if the aforesaid Jno
     Richardson his pmise and Assumption aforesaid in forme afore
     said had pformed hath totally Lost & is deprived off Whereupon
     the said John Braday sayth that he is Damnifyed & hath damage
     to the valluc of One hundred & fifty pounds sterling and thereupon
     he bringeth his suite
       And the said John Richardson by Kenelm Cheseldyn his At
     torney cometh and defendeth the force and injury when &c & Pray
     eth Liberty to Imparle hereunto untill next Provinciall Court & it
     is granted unto him the same Day is given to the plt also:
       Now here att this Day to wit the second day of March in the
     seaveanth yeare of the Dominion of the Right Honoble Charles
     Lord Baltemore &c Annoq Doni. 1681 Came the said John Braday
     by his Attorney aforesaid & Offered himself against the said John
     Richardson in the plea aforesaid hut the sayd John Richardson
     Came not but made default Whereupon the said John Braday Re
     maineth against the said John Richardson thereof wholly unde
     fended Therefore Itt is considered by the Court here that the afore
     said John Braday Recover against the said John Richardson aswell
     the aforesaid sume of One hundred pounds of good and Lawfull
     money of England the debt aforesaid wth costs of Suite, as also his
     Damages by him sustained by Occasion of the Detaining the Debt
     aforesaid, but because it is not Knowne to the Court here what
     Damages the said John Braday hath sustained by occasion thereof,