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     aforesaid but be in mercy for his false claime therein & that the        Liber W. C.
     said Joshua Guibert goe thereof without day. and that the said
  Joshua Guibert Recover against the Said George Tyte the sume of
                  pounds of tobacco for his costs and Charges
     by him about his Defence in this behalfe Laid out & expended and
     the said Joshua may have thereof Execution

    Lovelace Gossage William Steevens late of Dorchester County
          agt otherwise Called William Steevens Senr of the
  William Steevens  County of Dorsett in the said Province was
                  Sumoned to Answere unto Lovelace Gossage
     of a plea that he Render unto him the sume of Tenn thousand
     pounds of tobacco wch to him he oweth and unjustly detaineth
       And Whereupon the said Lovelace by Robert Carvile his Attor
     ney Sayth that Whereas the said William steevens upon the Second
     day of November in the yeare of our Lord 168o by his certaine
     bond or writeing Obligatory Sealed with the seale of him the said
     William & here in Court pduced whose date is the Day and yeare
     abovesaid, Did acknowledge himself to be holden and firmely bound
     unto the said Lovelace Gossage in the Just & full sume of tenn
     thousand pounds of good Sound Marchantable Tobacco in Caske
     to be paid to the said Lovelace or to his certaine Attorney his heires
     Executors Admrs or Assignes Yett notwithstanding the said Wil
     liam Stevens the said sume of Tenn thousand pounds of tobacco
     to him the said Lovelace according to the Tenor of the said write
     ing Obligatory hath not paid or Satisfyed though often thereunto
     requested but the same to pay and Satisfye hath hitherto Denyed
     and refused to pay the Same to the damage of the said Lovelace
     ffifteene thousand pounds of tobacco And thereupon he bringeth
     his suite
       And the said William Steevens by Thomas Burford his Attorney
     cometh and 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 plt likewise
       Now here at this day (to wit) the Eighteenth day of October
     in the Seaventh yeare of the Dominion of the Right honoble Charles
     Lord Baltemore &c Annoq Doni 1682 Came the said partyes by
     their Attorneys aforesaid and the said William Steevens by his
     said Attorney prayed the hearing of the said writeing Obligatory
     & it was read unto him, he also prayed the hearing of the Condition
     of the said writeing Obligatory and it was read unto him in thes
     words, The Condition of this Obligacon is Such that if the above
     bound William Steevens his heires Executors and Admrs & every of
     them shall and doe for their and Either of their parts in all things
     well & truely observe per forme fulfill and keepe all & singuler the
     Determination of Thomas Hutchinson Bryan Omaley John Pitt