272        Provincial Court Proceedings, 1682.

       Liber W. C. Landing or Piles Creeke in Wiccocomoco River in St Maryes County
                the next ifall after the date of the said writeing Indented (wch is
                long since past) att first and Prime cost as the said goods should
                bona fide Cost out of shopps without any fraight Custome or any
                other petty charges whatsoever deducting a penny in the shilling as
                aforesaid Yett the said Gerrard Slye or his Assignee or Assignes
                or any of them have not hitherto paid or allowed to the said James
                Bowling or his Assignes after the rate of one penny p pound for
                the tobacco aforesaid to be payd in goods as aforesaid, Nor hath
                he the said Gerrard or his Assignes delivered the said goods or any
                other goods to the said James Bowling or his assignes according
                to the forme and effect of the writeing Indented aforesaid though
                thereunto oftentimes required, And Soc the said James sayth That
                the sd Gerrard Although often required the Covenant aforesaid of
                that that it was Covenanted & agreed of by and betweene the partyes
                to those presents for themselves & their Assignes that the said
                Gerrard Slye or his Assignes should have as Law full Purchase of
                and from the said James Bowling or his Assignes, all his whole
                Cropp or Cropps of Tobacco wch he should make wth his Servants
                and Slaves on his Plantacon or Plantacons that prsent yeare One
                thousand six hundred Eighty & one, And that the said James Bowling
                should use his utmost Endeavors for the makeing the brightest and
                best tobacco they could Cleare of all Trash and to ordr it according
                to the said Gerrard Slye his Instruccons In Consideracon whereof
                the said Gerrard Slye or his Assignes was to allow and pay unto
                the said James Bowling or his Assignes after the Rate of One
           617  penny p pound To be paid in goods and the same to be delivered at
                Westwood Landing or Piles Creeke in Wiccocomoco River next fall
                att first and Prime cost as the Said goods should bona fide Cost out
                of the shopps without any charges of freight Custome or any other
                petty charges whatsoever Onely the sd James Bowling or his As
                signes should deduct and allow him the said Gerrard Slye or his
                Assignes one penny in every shilling worth of goods in Leiu of the
                said charges, wth the said James he hath not Kept but broken, but
                the Same with him hitherto to Kecpe hath denyed and Still doth
                denye Whereupon the said James Sayth he is the worse & hath
                Damage to the Vallue of Two hundred Pounds sterling & thereupon
                he bringeth his Suite
                  And the said Gerrard Sly by Robert Carvile his Attorney cometh
                & Defendeth the force and Injury when &c. and prayeth liberty to
                imparle hereunto untill next Provincial Court and it is granted unto
                him the same day is given to the Plantiffe likewise
                  Now here att this day to wit the nineteenth day of October in
                the Seaventh yeare of the Dominion of the Right honoble Charles
                Lord Baltemore &c Anno Doni 1682 Came the said partyes by
                their Attorneys aforesd and the said Gerrard Slye by his said Attor