44        Provincial Court Proceedings, 1681.

    Liber W. C. the Two and Twentyeth day of ffebruary Anno 168o for ffive Thou
                 sand forty Eight Pounds of Tobacco debt and ffive hundred ninety
                 eight Pounds of Tobacco costs of suite

                 James Phillips & Thomas Cannon Comand was given to the Sher
                     agt               iffe of Baltemore County that
                 George Gunnellhee attach any the goods or chat
                         tIes of George Gunnell late of
                 St Maryes County Otherwise called George Gunnell of Baltemore
                 County Chirurgion If they shall be found in Yot baliwick to the
                 Vallue of One hundred and twenty thousand pounds of good sound
                 Marchantable Tobacco, and when hee hath the Same Soe attached
                 or any part thereof the same in his custody to Keepe untill the said
                 George Gunnell Shall by himself or his Attorney appeare before
                 the Justices of the Provinciall Court to bee held at the Citty of
                 St Maryes the six and twentyeth day of Aprill in the sixth yeare of
                 the Dominion of the Right Honoble Charles Lord Baltemore &c
                 Annoq Dominj One Thousand six hundred Eighty and To answere
                 unto James Phillips and Thomas Cannon of a plea that hee Render
                 unto them the full and Just sume of One hundred and Twenty
                 Thousand pounds of good Sound Marchantable Tobacco and Casq3
                 wch to them he oweth & unjustly Detaineth, On wch said six and
                 twentyeth day of Aprill aforesaid Capt John Stanesby sheriffe of the
                 County aforesaid made returne of the writt aforesaid, That by
                 Vertue thereof hee hath attached goods of the said George Gunnell
                 Appraised by Edward Reeves and William Osborne the ninth day of
                 March 1680 (That is to say) One Cheese presse and Shovell at
                 Eighty pounds of Tobacco, One goose & Gander at Eighty, One
                 Grubing Hoe and two paire of ifetters at One hundred pounds of
                 Tobacco, and One paire of Stilliards Att forty pounds of Tobacco,
                 and that on the ffifteenth day of March 168o hee also attached of the
         p. 426  Estate of the said George Gunnell Seaven hogsheads of Tobacco
                 Containing Two Thousand Eight hundred and sixty pounds Neate
                 Tobacco Also att the same time hee Attached an Obligacon from
                 Richard Edmonds of Cecill County to George Gunnell for the surne
                 and Just Quantity of ffive Thousand one hundred and Eighteene
                 pounds of Tobacco Whereupon the said James Phillips & Thomas
                 Cannon by Robert Ridgely their Attorney Prayed that the Goods
                 and Tobacco soe attached as the estate of the said George Gunnell
                 as aforesaid might bee condemned unto them Itt is therefore Ordered
                 by the Court here this day (To witt) the seaven and Twentyeth day
                 of Aprill in the sixth yeare of the Dominion of the Right Honoble
                 Charles Lord Baltemore &ca Annoq Dominj 1681 That the said
                 James Phillips and Thomas Cannon give good and sufficient Se
                 curitie to this Court to indempnify this Court against all accâns
                 suites or other matters that shall or may happen touching or concern-