312        Provincial Court Proceedings, 1683.

    Liber W. C. The Lord Propry William Coursey late of Talbot County gentt
                      agt was Sumoned to answere unto the Lord Propry
               William Coursey :J  that now is of a plea that he render unto him
                              two hundred thousand pounds of Tobacco wch
                 he oweth him & unjustly Deteyneth &ca
                   And Whereupon Thomas Burford who for the said Lord Propry
                 in this behalfe prosecuteth for the said Lord Propry sayth that
          p. 649 Whereas the said William the Twentyeth day of March in the yeare
                 of Our Lord One thousand Six hundred Eighty and two at the
                 Citty of St Maries in st Maries County did accompt with the said
                 Lord PropTY of divers sumes of Tobacco by the said William to the
                 said Lord Propry before that time due and unpayd, Upon wch ac
                 count the said William was found in arrears to the said Lord Pro
                 prietary in the said Two hundred thousand pounds of tobacco to
                 be payd unto the said Lord Proprietary when he the said William
                 should be thereto required, Nevertheles the said William Although
                 often required the said Two hundred thousand Pounds of tobacco
                 to the said Lord Propry hath not Rendered but hath hitherto denyed
                 and doth still deny Whereupon the said Thomas Burford who as
                 aforesaid for the said Lord Propry in this behalfe prosecuteth Sayth
                 that the said Lord Proprietary is the worse & hath damage to the
                 vallue of Twenty thousand pounds of Tobacco. And this for the
                 said Lord Propry he is ready to verify &ca
                   Now here at this day (to wit) the third day of Aprill in the
                 Eighth yeare of the Dominion of the Right honoble Charles Lord
                 Baltemore &c Annoq Doni 1683 came the said William Coursey by
                 Robert Carvile his Attorney & defendeth the force and injury
                 when &c and sayth that he cannot gainsay the accon aforesaid of the
                 said Lord Proprietary against him the said William Nor but that
                 he the Said William doth owe to the said Lord Proprietary the said
                 Two hundred thousand Pounds of tobacco in forme as the said
                 Attorney Generall of the said Lord Propry hath above Declared
                 against him and sayth nothing else thereto: By reason whereof the
                 said Lord Proprietary Remayneth against the said William thereof
                 without Defence, Therefore it is Considered that the said Lord
                 Proprietary Recover against the said William his Debt aforesaid
                 and his Damages by occasion of Detaineing of that debt to
                        pounds of tobacco to the said Lord Proprietary of his
                 Assent by the Court here adjudged & nothing of mercy because
                 the said William Came here the first day by sumons. &ca
                          (By order of ye deft being present in Court)
                    This Judgment was Confessed in Court by Robert Carvile
                    Attorney for the deft: the 3d day of Aprill 1683
                                               Wm Cocks Ctke