280       Provincial Court Proceedings, 1682.

        Liber W. C.     Pounds of good Sound Marchantable Tobacco and Caske. To be
                paid to the said Robert Yeates and William Jones or either of them
                their or Either of their heires Executors Admrs or Assignes for
                payment of wch the said Thomas Vaughan did bind himself his
                heires Exrs and Admrs firmely by those presents Notwithstanding
                wch the Said Thomas Vaughan the said Sume of Six thousand
                Eight hundred Twenty foure pounds of tobacco according to the
                Tenor of the said bill or writeing obligatory hath not payd to the
                said Robert Yeates and William Jones or either of them Although
                often thereunto required but the same to pay hath denyed and still
                doth denye Whereupon the said Robert Yeates and William Jones
                Sayth they are damnifyed and hath losse to the vallue of Twelve
                thousand pounds of tobacco and thereupon they bring their Suite
                &c: and they bring here into Court ye writeing aforesaid wch Tes
                tifyeth the deft aforesaid the date whereof is the day & yeare above-
                said:
                  And Now here at this day (to wit) the thirteenth day of October
                in the seaventh yeare of the Dominion of the Right honoble Charles
                Lord Baltemore &c Annoq Doni One thousand Six hundred eighty
                two Cometh the Said Thomas Vaughan by Robert Carvile his
                Attorney and prayeth the hearing the writing aforesaid and it is
                read unto him &c. he likewise prayeth the heareing of the Condition
                of the same writeing and it is read unto him in these words The
                Condicon of this Obligacon is Such that if the above bound Thomas
                Vaughan and John Edmondson or either of them their heires Ex
                ecutrs or Admrs doe and shall pay or cause to be payd unto the above
                named Robert Yeates and William Jones or Either of them their
                or either of their heires Exrs Admrs or Assignes the Just Sume of
                Three thousand foure hundred and twelve pounds of good sound
                marchantable Tobacco & Caske Convenient in Chaptanke River in
                the County of Talbot 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 & virtue in the Law:
                wth being read and heard the said Thomas Vaughan by his Attorney
                aforesaid sayth that he cannot Gainsay the action aforesaid of the
                aforesaid Robert Yeates and William Jones But that he is indebted
                unto the said Robert and William the Said Sume of three thousand
                foure hundred and twelve pounds of tobacco in the Condition of
                the Said bond mentioned and that he consenteth that Judgment
           p. 624  Passe against him for the same Itt is therefore considered by the
                Court here that the said Robert Yeates and William Jones Recover
                against the said Thomas Vaughan aswell the aforesaid Sume of Three
                thousand foure hundred & Twelve pounds of Tobacco the debt afore
                said as also the Sume of Six hundred twenty seaven pounds of to
                bacco for costes of Suite and the said Defendt in mercy

                Maryland ss These are to Empower and Authorize you Robert