410       Provincial Court Proceedings, 1683.

   Liber W. C. and thirty pounds of tobacco for his Costs and Charges by him
                about his defence in this behalfe Laid out and expended, And the
                sd Cleoborne may have thereof Execution


                              The accot
                i86i: George Powell D~
                                                       ii Tob:
                     To John Lomax I payd for you       9'
                     To my bill I draw on Mr Jno Parris payable to you
                     for 16o~ tob. wc~1 yC sd Parris accepted and there-
                     upon he tooke in my noate from you & gave you a 1609
                     Noate on Colt Chandler & Mr Hawkins wth yor
                     Accepted for
                                                       1700:
                       P Contra Cr.
                                                    ii tob
                     By my bill in suite              ‘700
                        This accompt Sworne to in Court by Cleoborne Lomax
                        the 2d day of July Anno Doni 1683:
                                                 Wm Cocks C11~e

                Richard Reeves William Roswell late of St Maries County gentt
                     agt was attached to answere unto Richard Reeves of a
                William Roswell plea of Trespasse upon the case
                              And Whereupon the said Richard Reeves by
                 Anthony Underwood his Attorney complaineth that Whereas the
                 said William Roswell the twelfth day of December Anno Doni
                 1682 att Newtowne in St Maries County aforesaid In considera-
                 tion that if the said Richard Reeves att the Speciall instance and
                 request of the said William Roswell would acquitt release & dis-
                 charge one stephen Murty of the said County of St Maries Mar-
                 chant of & frome a Certaine debt of Eight thousand pounds of
                 tobacco then due and payable from the said Stephen Murty unto
                 the said Richard Reeves: Did then and there assume upon himself
                 and to the said Richard Reeves did ffaithfully promise that he the
                 said William Roswell him the said Richard Reeves the said sume of
                 Eight thousand pounds of tobacco when thereunto required would
                 well and truly content and pay, And the said Richard Reeves in ifact
                 sayth that trusting to the faire promise and assumption of the
                 sd W~ Roswell at Newtowne aforesaid Soe as aforesaid made.
                 hee the said Richard the day and yeare aforesd att Newtowne afore-
                 said did acquitt release exonerate and discharge the said Stephen
                 Murty of and from the said debt of Eight thousand pounds of
                 tobacco aforesaid by the said stephen Murty to the said Richard
                 Reeves due and payable as aforesaid Yett Nevertheless the said