18        Provincial Court Proceedings, 1681.

     Liber W. C. ing Obligatory to him the said John ILewellin hath not paid although
                 often thereunto required, but the same to pay hath denyed & still
                 doth denye Whereupon the said John sayth hee is Damnified and
                 hath losse to the Vallue of Six Thousand pounds of Tobacco, And
                 thereupon hee brings his suite
                  Now here at this day to witt the Nine and Twentyeth day of Aprill
                 in the sixth yeare of the Dominion of the Right Honoble Charles Lord
                 Baltemore &c Annoq Dominj 1681 Cometh aswell the said John
                 LLewellin by his Attorney aforesaid as the said George Robins in his
                 proper pson, and the said George sayth That hee Cannot gainsay the
                 aforesaid accon of the said John ILewellin for that hee hath not
                 paid to the said John the said sume of Three thousand pounds of
                 Tobacco in discharge of the said bill or writeing obligatory according
                 to the forme and Effect thereof, Therefore Itt is Considered by the
                 Court here That the said John LLewellin Recover against the said
                 George Robins aswell the aforesaid debt of Three thousand pounds
                 of Tobacco as also the sume of ffive hundred forty nine pounds of
                 Tobacco costs of suite, so that Execucon thereof Cease untill the
                 Tenth day of October next, And the said Deft in Mercy &c

                 William Diggs Esq Henry Exon late of the Citty of St Maryes
                    agt Innholder was attached to Answere unto the
                 Henry ExonHonoble William Diggs Esq one of the Jus
                 tices of the said Court according to the Liber
                 tyes and priviledges allowed &c of a plea that hee render unto him
                 the Just sume of Twelve Thousand five hundred thirty two pounds
                 of good sound Marchantable Tobacco & Caske wch to him hee oweth
                 and unjustly Detaineth
          p. 401 And Whereupon the said William Digges by Robert Ridgely
                 his Attorney sayth That Whereas the said Henry Exon the Tenth
                 day of October in the yeare of our Lord 168o at the Citty of
                 St Maryes aforesaid did borrow of the said Wm Digges the said
                 sume of Twelve Thousand five hundred thirty two pounds of To
                 bacco, To be paid unto the said William Diggs when hee should be
                 thereunto required Neverthelesse the said Henry the said sume of
                 Twelve Thousand five hundred thirty two pounds of Tobacco to him
                 the said William although often thereunto required hath not paid,
                 but hath hitherto Denyed and still doth denye to pay the same
                 Whereupon the said William sayth hee is the worse and hath losse
                 to the Vallue of Twenty thousand pounds of Tobacco, And there
                 upon hee bringeth his suite
                               John Doe
                        pledges de psec:        Richd: Roe  Ridgely p Quer.
                  Memorandum that this day (To witt) The two and Twentyeth
                 day of Aprill in the sixth yeare of the Dominion of Charles &c
                 Annoq Dominj One thousand six hundred eighty one before me