388        Provincial Court Proceedings, 1683.

        Liber W. C. promise as the said William above against him hath declared And
                 of this he putts himself upon the Country, And the pIt also Itt is
                 therefore Comanded the sheriffe of st Maries County that he Cause
                 to come here Twelve &c. by whome &c. and who neither &c. to Rec
                 ognize &c. because aswell &c.
                   On wch said second day of July in the yeare aforesaid came the
                 said ptijes by their Attorneys aforesaid And the Jurors Impannelled
                 being called likewise came to wit, Justinian Gerrard James Ringold
                 Marke Cordea Samuel Hatton Thomas Sikes Humphrey Jones,
                 Edward Ward, Richard Edelen, Bryan Dailey, John smith, Wil
                 liam Roswell & Thomas Simpson Who being elected tryed and
                 Sworne to say the truth in the premisses Upon their Oathes Doe
                 say. that the said John Kirke did Assume upon himself and to the
                 said William Colebourne make such promise as the said William
                 hath above declared against him & they assess the damage of the
                 said William to ififteene hundred pounds of tobacco Therefore Itt
                 is Considered by the Court here that the Said William Colebourne
                 Recover against the said John Kirke Aswell the aforesaid sume of
                 ffifteen hundred pounds of tobacco damages by the Jurors afore
                 said in forme aforesaid Assessed as also the sume of Two thousand
                 three hundred and nineteen pounds of tobacco for Costs of suite,
                 And the said Deft in mercy &c


                 Stephen Bearcroft and Richard Sweatnam was attached to answere
                 Edmond Buckeridge unto Stephen Bearcroft and Edmond Buck
                      agt        eridge in a plea of trespas of the case
                 Richard Sweatnam   And Whereupon the said Stephen and
                 Edmond by Kenelm Cheseidyne their At
                 torney complayneth that Whereas the said Richard Sweatnam the
                 28th day of November Anno Doni 1678: stood indebted unto the
                 said stephen and Edmond the sume of ffive thousand six hundred
                 pounds of tobacco for divers goods and Marchandizes then bought
                 had & received of them the said Stephen and Edmond (to wit) one
                 Caske of brandy Eight hundred pounds of tobacco And three pipes
                 of ifyall wynes at Sixteene hundred pounds of tobacco p pipe
                 Amounting to the sume of ffoure thousand Eight hundred pounds
             p. 714 of tobacco both wch sumes in the whole amounting to the sume of
                 ffive thousand six hundred pounds of tobacco aforesaid, In con
                 sideracon Whereof the said Richard did assume upon himself and
                 to the said Stephen and Edmond did faithfully promise that he the
                 said Richard when thereunto required the same to them the said
                 Stephen and Edmond would well and truly content and pay, And
                 the said Stephen and Edmond say Although the said Richard the
                 sume of three thousand Eight hundred and five pounds of tobacco
                 part of the said sume of five thousand six hundred pounds of
                 tobacco hath paid and Satisfyed to them the said Stephen and