238       Provincial Court Proceedings, 1682.

    Liber W. C.  Come for his accomodacon for that prsent yeare And the said
                 Thomas in fact sayth that trusting to the faithfull promise and
                 Assumption of the said Hugh to him the said Thomas soe as afore
                 said made hee the said Thomas Swaney the said tenth day of
                 March in the yeare aforesaid did worke with two servants of the
                 said Hugh ifrench as their overseer as aforesaid and did upon the
                 ground of the said Hugh at Pickawaxon aforesaid that yeare make
                 a Cropp of Corne Tobacco and beanes viz Seaventeen hogsheads
                 of good sound Corne One hogshead of Nubbins and two bushells
                 of beanes, And did fill with Tobacco Ninety foot of houseing, wch
                 said Cropp of Corne Tobacco and beanes was of the Vallue of Tenn
                 thousand pounds of Tobacco, one third part whereof properly be
                 longed and appertained to the said Thomas Swaney deducting Onely
                 out of the Come ffive barrells for his Accomodations had the sd
                 Hugh found him with dyet and Lodgeing dureing the makeing
                 of the Cropp aforesaid But the aforesaid Hugh ifrench his promise
                 and Assumption soe as aforesd made not regarding but deviseing
                 and fraudulently intending him the said Thomas Swaney of his
                 Labour aforesaid to deceive and defraud The Eighteenth day of
                 July then next following refused to allow the said Thomas dyett,
                 and in the heighth of the Cropp in the month of August then next
                 following one John storey One of the said ifrench's Servants then
                 in the Cropp with the said Thomas he the said Hugh ifrench did
                 take away & detaine for the Space of ffifteene dayes, And when
                 the said Cropp was fully finished he the said Hugh the said Thomas
                 swaney his share of Corne Tobacco and beanes aforesaid to deliver
                 according to his promise aforesaid although often thereunto re
                 quired denyed & as yet doth denye to the damage and losse of the
                 said Thomas Swaney ffive thousand pounds of Tobacco and there
                 upon he bringeth his Suite
          p. 589 And the said Hugh ffrench by Thomas Burford his Attorney
                 cometh & defendeth the force and Injury when &c and prayeth
                 Liberty to imparle hereunto untill next Provinciall Court and it is
                 granted unto him the same day is given to the plantiffe likewise
                   Now here at this day to wit the Sixteenth day of October in the
                 seaventh yeare of the Dominion Of the Right honoble Charles Lord
                 Baltemore &c Annoq Doni 1682 Came the said Thomas Swaney
                 by Robert Carvile his Attorney and the said Hugh ifrench by his
                 Attorney aforesaid And the said Hugh ifrench by his said Attorney
                 sayth That he did not Assume upon himself in manner and forme
                 as the said Thomas Swaney above against him hath complained
                 and of this he putteth himself upon the Country And the plt likewise
                   Itt is therefore comanded the sheriffe of St Maryes County that
                 he Cause to come here twelve &c by whome &c & who Neither &c.
                 to recognize &c because aswell &c.
                   On w± said sixteenth day of October in the yeare aforesaid came