400       Provincial Court Proceedings, 1683.

    Liber W. C. In consideracon of sundry Upholstery goods amounting to the like
                sume or vallue of Eleaven pounds and five shillings wch are sold by
                the said ffrancis Hiller to the said Thomas Cooke and delivered on
                board the said shipp Experiment for the use and behoofe of the
                said Thomas Cooke and agreed to be delivered unto him or his
                Assignes in Maryland aforesaid Upon his performance of the
                Conditions aforesaid that then this obligacon to he voyd or else to
                stand and remaine in full force & vertue Wch being read and heard
                the said Thomas Cooke by his Attorney aforesaid prayeth time
                to speake thereunto untill the next Provinciall Court and it is granted
                unto him And the same day is given to the PIt also:
         p. 722 Now here at this day (to wit) the third day of July in the eighth
                yeare of the Dominion of the Right honoble Charles Lord Baltemore
                &c. Annoq Doni 1683 Came the said ptyes by their Attorneys
                aforesaid, And the said Thomas Cooke by his said Attorney con
                senteth that Judgment pass against him the said Thomas for the
                aforesaid Sume of Two and twenty pounds of Lawfull money of
                England, Therefore It is considered by the Court here that the sd
                James Congden Recover against the said Thomas Cooke aswell the
                aforesaid Sume of Two and Twenty pounds Sterling the debt
                aforesaid as also the Sume of six hundred & twenty pounds of
                tobacco for Costs of suite, And the said Defendant in Mercy &c.


                Edward Leach  John Chafe of Talbot County otherwise Called John
                   agt Chafe of Chester River in the Province of Mary
              John Chafe  land stands sumoned to answere unto Edward Leach
                           of the Citty of London Marchant in a plea of debt
                and that he render to the said Edward the Just quantity of ffive
                thousand five hundred thirty and eight pounds of good bright
                Marchantable tobacco & Caske Cleare of ground Leaves and trash
                wch to the said Edward he oweth & from him unjustly detaineth
                  And Whereupon the said Edward by Griffith Jones his Attorney
                sayth that the sd John the eighth day of July Anno Doni 1681 by
                his certaine bill or writeing sealed with the seale of the said John
                as his act and deed delivered and here in Court produced Whose
                date is the day and yeare ahovesaid Did acknowledge himself to
                owe and be indebted unto the said Edward in the sume of Two
                thousand seaven hundred sixty and nine pounds of good sound
                bright Marchantable tobacco and Caske Cleare of ground leaves
                and trash To be payd to the said Edward or to his Certaine Attor
                ney his Executors Admrs or assignes upon the first day of December
                next Ensueing the date thereof at some Convenient place in the said
                River, To the wch payment well and truely to be made the said
                John did bind himself his heires Executors Admrs and Assignes
                in the said Just sume of ffive thousand five hundred thirty and
                eight pounds of tobacco Quallifyed as aforesaid firmely by the said