2         Provincial Court Proceedings, 1681.

         Liber w. c. promise aforesaid hath not Paid or satisfyed though often thereunto
            p. 386 required, but the same to pay and Satisfy have hitherto Denyed and

                still doe denye and Refuse to the damage of the said William ffoure
                thousand pounds of Tobacco, and thereupon he brings his suite
                  And the said Edward Pindar by Robert Ridgely his Attorney
                Cometh and Defendeth the force and injury when &c and Prayeth
                Liberty to imparle hereunto untill next Provinciall Court and itt is
                granted unto him the same Day is given to the plantiffe also
                  Att wch said next Provinciall Court Came the said partyes by their
                Attorneys aforesaid, and the said Edward Pindar by his said At
                torney sayth that the aforesaid plt his accon aforesaid against him
                ought not to have because hee sayth that hee hath fully administred
                all and Singuler the goods & Chattles wch were of the aforesaid
                William ifoord at the time of his Death, and that the said Edward
                hath noe goods or Chattles wth were the said William's at the time
                of his death in his hands to be administred nor had not at the time
                of the issueing the Originall writ in this suite, nor ever afterwards,
                and this he is ready to averre Wherefore he prayes Judgment of the
                Courts if the aforesaid William Phelps his accon aforesaid against
                ought to have
                  And the said William Phelps by his said Attorney sayth that hee
                for anything by the said Edward in the said Plea alleadged, from
                his accon aforesaid against the said Edward ought not to be stopped
                because he sayth that the aforesaid Edward the day of the takeing
                out the originall writ of the said William Phelps had Divers goods
                and Chattles wch were of the aforesaid William ifoord at the time
                of his Death, in his hands to be administred to the Vallue of the debt
                aforesaid Whereof the said William Phelps of that debt he might
                have satisfyed And this hee prayes may be Enquired of by the
                Country And the said plantiffe Likewise Therefore It is Comanded
                the sheriffe of St Maryes County that hee Cawse to come Twelve &c
                by whome &c and who Neither &c To Recognize &c because aswell &c
                  Now here at this Day to wit the Thirtyeth day of Aprill in the
                sixth yeare of the Dominion of the Right honoble Charles Lord
                Baltemore &c Annoq Dominj 1681 Came the said partyes by their
                Attorneys aforesaid and The Jurors Impannelled being Called like
                wise came to wit William Roswell Joseph Pile William Langworth,
                Edward Cooke, John Rosse, John Richardson, Henry Griffith John
                Phillips, Samll Millington, Philip Lines, William Robson and Griffith
                Janes Who being Elected tryed and sworne to say the truth in the
                prmises Upon their oathes Doe say That the said Edward Pindar
                hath not fully administred all and singuler the goods and Chattles
                   were of the said William ffoorde at the time of his death, but
                that the said Edward hath seaverall goods & Chattles (wch were of the
                said William ffoorde at the time of his death) in his hands to be
                Administred to the Vallue of the debt aforesaid, Therefore it is
                Considered that the said Wm Phelps Admr as aforesaid Recover
                against the said Edward Pindar Admr as aforesaid aswell the afore