276        Provincial Court Proceedings, 1682.

     Liber W. C. And Whereupon the Said Thomas Claggett by Charles Boteler
                 his Attorney complaineth that whereas the said William Hill upon
                 the Eighth day of Aprill in the yeare of Our Lord 1681 by his
                 certaine bill or writeing Obligatory Sealed wth ye Seale of the Said
                 William and herein Court produced whose date is the day and
                 yeare first above written Did acknowledge himself bound and in
                 debted unto Thomas Clagett of Petuxent River in the County of
                 Calvert in the full and Just sume or quantity of Seaventeene hun
                 dred fifty three pounds of good Sound Marchantable Tobacco and
                 Caske Cleare of ground leaves or Trash To be paid unto the said
                 Thomas Clagett his heires Executors Admrs or assignes upon De
                 mand after the tenth of October next Ensueing the date thereof
                 ffor the wch payment well and truly to be made and done the said
                 William Hill did bind himself his heirs Exrs and Admrs firmely
                 by these prsents Yett the Said William Hill though often there-
                 unto required the said Sume of Seaventeene hundred fifty three
                 pounds of tobacco hath not payd unto him the said Thomas Claggett
                 but the same to him to pay hitherto hath and Still doth denye
                 Whereupon the said Thomas Claggett Sayth he is Damnifyed and
                 hath Losse to the vallue of Two thousand five hundred pounds of
                 tobacco And thereupon he brings his suite
                  And the said William Hill by Kenelm Cheseldyn his Attorney
                 cometh and defendeth the force and injury when &c and pray
                 eth 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 seaventeenth 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
                 Claggett by his Attorney aforesaid and offered himself against
                 the said William Hill in the Plea aforesaid but the said William
                 Hill came not but made default Wherefore the said Thomas re
                 maineth against the said William thereof wholly undefended Itt
                 is therefore considered by the Court here that the said Thomas
                 Claggett Recover against the Said William Hill as well the afore
                 said Sume of Seaventeen hundred fifty three pounds of Tobacco
                 debt as also the sume of Six hundred & twelve pounds of tobacco
                 for Costs of suite, and the said Defendt in Mercy:
                 The Lord PropryEdward Pye late of St Maryes County
                      agtgentl & Ann his wife Admrx of the
                 Edwd Pye & Ann his wife     goods and Chattles were of Benja
                 Admrx of Benjamin Rozer     min Rozer of Charles County gentl
                 Esq Decdwho dyed intestate &c. were sumoned to
                 answere unto the Lord Propry that now
                 is of a plea that they render unto him Tenn thousand pounds of
                 Lawfull money of England wch they from him unjustly detaine &ca