268        Provincial Court Proceedings, 1682.

     Liber W.C.  pounds of Sterling money of England And thereupon he brings
                his suite
                  And the said Nicholas Nicholson and Hester his wife by Robert
                Carvile their Attorney come and defend the force and injury when &c
                and pray liberty to Imparle hereunto untill next Provinciall Court
                and it is granted unto them and the same day is given to the plt
                likewise
                  Now here at this day (to wit) the fourteenth 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 sd Nicholas Nicholson and
                Hester his wife by their Said Attorney Sayth nothing in barr or
                avoydance of the accon aforesaid of him the said George Gos fright
                Whereby the said George Gos fright Remaineth against the said
                Nicholas and Hester thereof wholly undefended Therefore Itt is
                Considered by the Court here that the said George Gos fright
                Recover against the Estate of the Said William Gough decd Aswell
                the aforesaid Sume of Three hundred Sixty three pounds Nine
                teene shillings & Eighth pence halfe penny Sterling debt: as also
                the sume of ffive hundred Eighty three pounds of tobacco for
                costs of suite And the Defendants in mercy And hereupon the said
                George Gos fright by his Attorney aforesaid Chooseth to be deliv
                ered unto him all the goods & Chattles of the aforesaid William
                Gough besides his Oxen and the Aifros of his Cart, And likewise
                the Moyety of all his Lands and Tennements, To hold to him the
                said George Gos fright the goods and Chattles aforesaid as his owne
                goods & Chattles & the moyety aforesaid as his ffreehold to him and
                his Assignes according to the forme of the Statute in that Case
                made and Provided untill the debt and Costs aforesaid be thereupon
                leavyed And to him it is granted by the Court here:

                James Bowling Gerrard Slye late of St Maryes County Marchant
                   agt was attached to answere unto James Bowling of
              Gerrard Slye  the Same County gentt of a plea of Trespasse of
                            the Case
                  And Whereupon the said James by Robert Carvile his Attorney
                Sayth that Whereas the said Gerrard Slye the second day of May
                in the yeare of our Lord One thousand six hundred eighty one at
                Bushwood in the said County of St Maryes had accounted with
                the said James of divers Sumes of money and Tobacco to him the
                said James by him the Said Gerrard due and Owing for seaverall
                goods & Comodities by him the said James to him the said Gerrard
                Sold and Delivered and for seaverall Sumes of tobacco by him the
                Said James at the special Instance and request of the Said Gerrard
                to and for the said Gerrard paid and Disbursed as by an account
                hereunto Annexed may appeare, And upon that Account the said