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     or Assignes the Just sume of three thousand foure hundred pounds      Liber W. C.
     of good Sound Marchantable tobacco & Caske Convenient in Chap
     tanke River in the County of Talbott aforesaid at or before the
     Tenth day of October next Ensueing the date hereof then this
     Obligation to be voyd or else to be and remaine in full force Power
     and vertue
       Which being read and heard the said John Edmondson by his
     Attorney aforesaid Sayth that he Cannot gainsay the action afore
     said aforesaid of the aforesaid Robert Yeates and William Jones.
     but that he is indebted unto the Said Robert & William the Said
     Sume of three thousand foure hundred pounds of Tobacco in the
     Condition of the Said Bond mentioned and that he Consenteth that
     Judgment passe against him for the same. Itt is therefore consid
     ered by the Court here that the said Robert Yeates & William Jones
     Recover against the said John Edmondson aswell the aforesaid
     sume of three thousand foure hundred pounds of tobacco Debt as
     also the sume of six hundred twenty seaven Pounds of Tobacco
     for costs of suite And the Defendant in mercy &ca

     Maryland ss: These are to Empower and Authorize you Griffith
     Jones one of the Attorneys of the Provinciall Court for me in my
     name to appear and confesse Judgment unto a certaine accon of
     debt brought against me in the said Court by Robert Yeates and
     William Jones for the Sume of three thousand foure hundred and
     Twelve pounds of tobacco. And for soc doeing this shall be yor
     warrant as Witnesse my hand & seale the thirteenth day of October
     1682
                             John Edmondson (sealed)

    Robert Yeates & Wm Jones Thomas Vaughan late of the County                 p. 623
          agt of Talbott otherwise called Thomas
     Thomas VaughanVaughan of Talbott County gentt was
      Sumoned to answere unto Robert Yeates
     and William Jones of the Citty of Bristoll in the Kingdome of Eng
     land of a plea that he Render unto them the full and Just Sume of
     Six thousand Eight hundred Twenty foure pounds of good Sound
     Marchantable Tobacco and Caske to them he oweth and unjustly
     Detaineth &c
       And Whereupon the said Robert Yeates and William Jones by
     Anthony Vnderwood their Attorney Sayth that Whereas the said
     Thomas Vaughan the twenty Sixth day of Aprill in the yeare of
     Our Lord One thousand six hundred eighty one by his Certaine
     bond or writeing obligatory Sealed the scale of him the said
     Thomas Vaughan and here in Court produced whose date is the day
     and yeare abovesaid Did acknowledge himself to be holden and
     firmely bound unto the Said Robert Yeates and William Jones in
     the full and Just sume of Six thousand Eight hundred twenty foure