246       Provincial Court Proceedings, 1682.

     Liber W. C. manner and forme before pleaded & the matter in the same Con
                 tained is not sufficient Law to Preclude him the Said Roger from
                 haveing his action aforesaid against the said Susanna, and that he
                 thereto hath noe need nor by the Law of the land is bound in any
                 in any manner to answere Whereupon for want of a sufficient
         p. 595  answere in that behalfe the said Roger doth Demurre in Law there-
                 unto and for Cause and reason of Demurrer in Law in this behalfe
                 he sheweth to the Court here according to the forme of the statute
                 in that case made and provided the Causes following, ffirst because
                 the said Susanna in the plea aforesaid doth not answere to the
                 fourteen hundred twenty five pounds of tobacco part of the said
                 sume of ffifteen thousand five hundred ffifty and foure pounds of
                 Tobacco and three fourths of a pound of tobacco in the Replica
                 tion aforsd above Specified, And for that the plea aforesaid of the
                 said Susanna tends to the Generall issue onely & soe not Con
                 venient to be soe specially pleaded, And lastly for that the plea
                 aforesaid is insufficient in matter and forme, And this he is ready
                 to verify Whereupon he prayeth Judgment and his debt aforesaid
                 together with the Damages by Occasion of the detaining the debt
                 aforesaid to him to be adjudged, And the Deft likewise being
                 read and heard by the Justices here fully undTstood & dilligently
                 Examined Itt Seemeth to the same Justices that the Demurrer of
                 the aforsd plt is a good Demurrer and that the Reasons therein
                 mentioned and others by him before pleaded are good and Suffi
                 cient in Lawe to maintaine the accon aforesaid of him the said plt
                 in manner and forme aforesaid brought Therefore Itt is Consid
                 ered by the Court here that the said Roger Brooke Recover against
                 the Said Susanna Keene as well the aforesaid sume of One hundred
                 thousand pounds of tobacco debt as also the sume of
                 pounds of tobacco for costs of suite And the said Deft in mercy &Ca

              Roger Brooke       October the 18th 1682
                                   agt
               Susanna Keene The plt haveing this day Recovered Judgment
                            agt the Deft for One hundred thousand pounds of
                 tobacco debt. and Costs of Suite Itt is Ordered by the Court that
                 Execution Cease to issue upon the said Judgment against the said
                 Deft until the next Court unlesse in the meane time the Deft Refuse
                 to pay to the plt the Sume of ffifteen thousand five hundred fifty
                 and foure pounds of Tobacco & three fourths of a pound of tobacco
                 Together with the Costs of suite upon the said Judgment

             Abraham Read Lessee of    In Ejectmt
                 Andrew Abington
                   agt            George Thompson late of St Maryes
                 George ThompsonCounty gentt was attached to answer unto
                 Abraham Read of a plea wherefore with