Provincial Court Proceedings, 1683.     313

     The Lord Propry George Robins late of Talbott County gentl was          Liber W. C.
         agt sumoned to answere unto the Lord Propry that
   George Robins now is of a plea that he render unto him Two
                 hundred thousand Pounds of Tobacco wch he
     oweth him & unjustly detaineth &ca
       And Whereupon Thomas Bur ford who for the said Lord Propry
     in this behalfe prosecuteth for the said Lord Proprietary sayth That
     whereas the said George Robins the Twentyeth day of March in
     the yeare of our Lord 1682 at the Citty of st Maryes in st Maries
     County did accompt with the said Lord Propry of divers sumes of
     tobacco by the sd George Robins to the said Lord Proprietary
     before that time due and unpaid, Upon wch accompt the said George
     was found in Arreares to the said Lord Proprietary in the said Two
     hundred thousand pounds of Tobacco to be payd unto the said Lord
     Proprietary when he the said George should be thereunto required
     Nevertheless the said George Robins 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 denye
     Whereupon the said Thomas Burford who as aforesaid for the said
     Lord Propry in this behalfe prosecuteth sayth that the said Lord
     Propry is the worse and hath Damage to the Vallue of Twenty
     thousand pounds of Tobacco: And this for the said Lord Propry
     he is ready to Verify &ca:
       And the said George by Robert Carvile his Attorney cometh and          p. 650
     defendeth the force & Injury when &c and sayth that he cannot gain
     say the accon aforesaid of the said Lord Proprietary against him the
     said George Nor but that he the said George doth owe to the said
     Lord Propry 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 Remaineth against the
     said George thereof without defence, Therefore it is Considered
     that the said Lord Propry Recover against the said George the debt
     aforesaid and the Damages by occasion of the detaineing of the said
     Debt to            pounds of tobacco to the Lord Pro
     prietary of his Assent by the Court here Adjudged, and nothing of
     mercy because the said George came here the first day by sumons &c:
        (By order of the deft being present in Court)
         This Judgment was Confessed in open Court by Robert Carvile
        the Attorney of the Defendant the third day of Aprill 1683
                                   Wm Cocks Clke