Provincial Court Proceedings, 1683.

 Liber W. C.     prayeth liberty of speakeing hereunto untill the next Provinciall
                 Court and it is granted unto him And the same day is given to the
                 plt likewise
                  Att wch said next Provinciall Court to wit the ffifth day of July
                 in the Eighth yeare of the Dominion of the Right Honoble Charles
                 Lord Baltemore &c Annoq: Doni. 1683: Came the partyes afore
                 said by their Attorneys aforesaid And the sd John Walls by his
                 said Attorney sayth That the said James his accon aforesd against
                 him the said James ought not to have for that he sayth that the sd
                 John Walls hath observed performed fulfilled & kept all and singu
                 lar the Covenants & agreemts in the Articles of Affraightment In
                 dented aforesaid above specifyed of the part of him the said John
                 to be Observed fulfilled and Kept from the time of the makeing
                 the Articles aforesaid untill the day of the takeing out of the Orrigi
                 nall writ of him the said James according to the purport and effect
                 and true meaning of the said Articles And this he is ready to
                 Verify Whereof he Demands Judgment whether the sd James his
                 accon aforesaid ought to have.
                  And the said John Walls by his said Attorney sayth that he
                 Ought not to be barred from haveing his accon aforesaid against
      p. 741     him the said John Walls because by protesting & Denyeing that the
                 said John Walls hath observed performed fulfilled and kept all and
                 singular the Articles Covenants & agreements in the Articles of
                 Affraighment Indented aforesaid above specifyed of the part of
                 him the said John to be observed performed fulfilled & Kept accord
                 ing to the purport & Effect & true intent of the said Articles of
                 Affraightment as the said John hath by plea above pleaded, And
                 the said James protesting also that the said John Walls Mastr of
                 the said shipp did not with the said shipp with all Convenient speed
                 after the date of the said Articles (Wind & weather pmitting)
                 Sayle with the said shipp strong and stench fitted & sufficiently pro
                 vided & furnished with tackling apparrell & other necessaryes &
                 furniture from Nantecoke River in Somerset County aforesaid
                 where she then Roade into Bush River in Baltemore County &
                 there should receive & take on board the said shipp. such & soe
                 many Goods and Comodityes To be shipped & Loaden by the said
                 James Mills as in the said Articles are mentioned & expressed at
                 the rates & prices therein named, & the said James ffurther Pro
                 testing that all the marrinrs belonging to the sd shipp were not at
                 the Comand and disposall of the said James Mills dureing the time
                 of thirty foure dayes in the said Articles mentioned in relation to
                 the speedy Loadeing & getting on board the goods and Comodities
                 aforesaid in this Province & likewise in the unloading the same in the
                 port or place where the same should arrive & be unloaden, ffor
                 plea the said James Mills sayth that the said John Walls at the
                 Expiration of thirty & foure dayes aforesaid did not with the said