Provincial Court Proceedings, 1683.     323

       Now here at this day to wit the second day of Aprill in the           Liber W. C.
     Eighth yeare of the Dominion of the Right honoble Charles Lord
     Baltemore &c. Annop Doni 1683 Came the said Garret Vanswear
     ingen by his Attorney aforesaid and Offered himself against the
     said Thomas Taylor in the plea aforesaid but the said Thomas
     came not but made default It is therefore considered by the Court
     here that the said Garret Vanswearingen Recover against the said
     Thomas Taylor Aswell the aforesaid sume of thirteene thousand
     pounds of Tobacco debt as also the sume of Six hundred & twenty
     five pounds of tobacco for Costs of suite. and the Defendant in
     mercy &c.

    Wm  Digges Esqr Henry Exon late of st Maries County in the
        agt Province of Maryland Innholder was sumoned to
     Henry Exonanswere unto William Digges Esqr of a plea that
     he render unto him Twenty seaven thousand
     foure hundred eighty foure pounds of tobacco wch he oweth him
     and unjustly Detaineth &c:
       And Whereupon the said William by Thomas Burford his Attor
     ney sayth that Whereas the said Henry the twentyeth day of March
     in the yeare of our Lord 1682 at the Citty of st Maryes did accompt
     with the Said William of divers Sumes of tobacco by the said
     Henry to the said William before that time due & unpaid Upon wch
     accompt the said Henry was found in Arreares to the said William
     in the sume of Twenty seaven thousand foure hundred eighty
     foure pounds of tobacco to be paid unto the said William when he
     should be thereunto required Nevertheless the said Henry Although
     often required the said Twenty seaven thousand foure hundred
     Eighty foure pounds of tobacco to the said William hath not payd
     but hath hitherto denyed and doth still denye to the Damage of the
     sd William Tenn thousand pounds of tobacco and thereupon he
     bringeth his suite
       And the said Henry in his proper person cometh and defendeth
     the force & Injury when &c and sayth that he cannot Gainsay the
     accon of the said William aforesaid against him the said Henry
     Nor but that he the said Henry doth owe to him the said William
     the said twenty seaven thousand foure hundred Eighty foure
     pounds of Tobacco in forme as the said William above against
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     him hath declared and Sayth no thing else thereto By reason of
     wch the said William remayneth against the said Henry thereof
     without defence Therefore It is Considered that the Said William
     Digges Recover against the said Henry Exon his Debt aforesd and
     his Damages by Occasion of the detaineing of that debt to.
              pounds of tobacco to the said William of his Assent
     by the Court here adjudged and no thing of mercy because the said