Provincial Court Proceedings, 1683. 387

     Thomas Carvile in all nine dayes at 30li tobacco p day to be paid out     Liber W. C.
     of the said Carviles estate after the above Judgment is satisfyed
      Ordered that the three men that were prest by the sheriffe of
     st Maries County by order of his Lopp the Lord Propry be and are
     hereby allowed the sume of ffifteene pounds of tobacco p day (for
     secureing the estate of the said Thomas Carvile) to be paid out
     of the said estate after the aforesaid Judgment be satisfyed, And
     that all the witnesses that were sumoned by his Lopp to testify agt
     the said Thomas Carvile and by the said Thomas Carvile, be satis
     fved yed out the sd state but that the aforegoing judgment be first
     Satis fyed


    William Colebourne John Kirke late of Calvert County Marchant              p. 713
       agt was attached to answere unto William Cole
 John Kirke        bourne in a plea of trespasse of the case
                    And whereupon the said William Cole
     bourne by Anthony Underwood his Attorney Complaineth that
     Whereas the said John Kirke the first day of March 1680 at Petux
     ent River in Calvert County aforesaid was indebted unto the said
     William Colebourne for Sloop hyre the sume of fifteene hundred
     pounds of tobacco, the said John Kirke did then and there Assume
     upon himself and to the said William Colebourne faithfully promise
     that he the said John him the said William the said sume of ffif
     teene hundred pounds of tobacco when thereunto required would
     well and truly content and pay, Yett nevertheless the said John
     Kirke his promise and assumption aforesaid to the said William
     soe as aforesaid made not regarding but deviseing and fraudulently
     intending him the sd William in this behalfe craftily and Subtilly
     to deceive and defraud the said sume of fifteene hundred pounds
     of tobacco the said John to him the said William hath not payd
     according to his promise aforesaid although the said John by him
     the said William to doe the same hath been often thereunto required
     (to wit) the seaven and twentyeth day of March at Petuxent afore
     said in the yeare aforesaid, but the same to pay hath denyed & still
     doth deny to the dammage of the said William three thousand
     pounds of tobacco and thereupon he bringeth his suite
      And the said John Kirke by Robert Carvile his Attorney cometh
     and defendeth the force & injury when &c. and prayeth liberty to
     Imparle hereunto untill the next Provinciall Court and it is granted
     unto him And the same day is given to the plt likewise
      Now here at this day to wit the second day of July in the Eighth
     yeare of the Dominion of the Right honoble Charles Lord Baltemore
     &c. Annocp Doni. 1683 Came the said ptyes by their Attorneys
     aforesaid And the said John Kirke by his said Attorney sayth that
     he did not Assume upon himself and to the said William make such