Provincial Court Proceedings, 1683.     437

        And Whereupon the said Martha by Anthony Underwood her              Liber W. C.
      Attorney complaineth that Whereas the said Henry the seaven
      teenth day of November 1680: att the Citty of St Maries did
      accompt with the said Robert in his life time of divers sumes of
      Tobacco by the aforesaid Henry to the said Robert in his life time
      late one of the Attorneys of the Provinciali Court of this Prov
      ince for fees due & accustomed to be payd to such Attorneys af ore-
      said, And upon the said accot the said Henry was found in arrears
      to the said Robert in his life time the sume of One thousand eight
      hundred ninety five pounds of tobacco, In consideracon whereof
      the said Henry did Assume upon himself and to the said Robert
      did then and there faithfully promise that he the said Henry him
      the said Robert the said sume of One thousand eight hundred
      ninety five pounds of tobacco when thereunto required would well
      and truly content and pay, Yett Nevertheless the said Henry him
      the said Robert in his life time nor the said Martha since the death
      of the said Robert (to whom Execution of the last will & Testa
      ment of the said Robert since his death hath been comitted) The
      said sume of One thousand Eight hundred ninety five pounds of
      tobacco hath not payd Although to doe the same he hath been
      solemnly thereunto required (to wit) The third day of January
      1681 at Baltemore County aforesaid, but the same to pay hath
      denyed and still doth denye, To the Damage of the said Martha
      the sume of Two thousand pounds of tobacco And thereupon she
      brings her suite
        And the said Martha brings here into Court the Letters Testa
      mentary aforesd by wch it may appeare to the Court here that she
      thereof is Executrix
        And the said Henry Johnson by Thomas Burford his Attorney
      cometh and [Defendeth] the force and injury when &c and prayeth         p.
      Liberty to imparle hereunto untill the next Provinciall Court and
      it is granted unto him And the same day is given to the plantiffe
      also:
        Now here att this day (to wit) the thirtyeth day of March in
      the Eigth yeare of the Dominion of the Right honoble Charles Lord
      Baltemore &c Annoq Dominj 1683 came ye said Martha Ridgely
      by her Attorney aforesaid and Offered herself against the said
      Henry Johnson in the plea aforesaid, but the said Henry Johnson
      came not but made Default, Wherefore the said Martha remaineth
      against the said Henry thereof wholly undefended, Itt is therefore
      considered by the Court here that the said Martha Ridgely Execu
      trix as aforesaid recover against the said Henry Johnson Aswell
      the aforesaid sume of One thousand Eight hundred ninety five
      pounds of tobacco the debt aforesaid as also the sume of ffive
      hundred sixty foure oure pounds of Tobacco for costs of suite, And the
      said defendant in mercy &ca