450       Provincial Court Proceedings, 1683.

       Liber W. C.     Matthew Turner according to an Act of Assembly in that Case
                made and provided, And it is granted unto him by the Court here


               John Wood Comand was given to the sheriffe of St Maries
                  agt County that he take Joseph Eaton (If he should be
              Joseph Eaton  found in his baliwick and him safe keepe soe that
                          he should have his body here the thirtyeth day of
                June in the Eighth yeare of the Dominion of the Right honoble
                Charles Lord Baltemore &c. Annocp Doni 1682: to satisfy unto
                John Wood the sume of Nine hundred and two pounds of tobacco
                wch to him the said John by discression of the Justices of the
                provinciall Court held at St Maries the sixteenth day of October
                last past was allowed for his expences and Costs of suite for that the
                said Joseph Eaton hath not prosecuted with effect his Certaine
                plaint of Trespas of the Case by him the said Joseph Eaton against
                the said John Wood in the said Court brought (Whereof he is
                convict)
                 On wch said Thirtyeth day of June aforesaid Joshua Doyne
                gent sheriffe of st Maries County made returne of the writ afore
                said in manner ffollowing Viz
                                       Satisfyed p Joshua Doyne sher.

               Henry Exon   Richard Edmonds otherwise called Richard
                  agt Edmonds of Cecill County in the Province
             Richard Edmonds.    of Maryland was sumoned to Answere unto
                             Henry Exon of the Citty of st Maries Inn
                holdT of a plea that he render unto him the full & just sume of flour
                thousand Eight hundred & eighteen pounds of good sound bright
                Marchantable tobacco in Caske wch to him to oweth and unjustly
                detaineth
                 And whereupon the said Henry Exon by Nicholas Painter his
                Attorny sayth that Whereas the said Richard Edmonds the one
                and twentyeth day of Octobr Anno Doni. 1682: by his Certaine
                bill or writeing obligatory sealed with the scale of him ye said
                Richard and here in Court produced Whose date is the day and
                yeare aforesaid, Did acknowledge himself to owe and stand justly
                indebted unto the said Henry Exon in the said full and just sume
                of ffoure thousand eight hundred and Eighteen pounds of good
                sound bright Marchantable Tobacco in Caske, To be paid unto the
            P. 761     said Henry Exon or to [his] Certaine Attorney Exrs Admrs or
                Assignes convenient to ye water side in ye said County of Cecill Yett
                Notwithstanding the said Richard the said sume of ffoure thousand
                Eight hundred and eighteene pounds of tobacco according to the
                said bill or writeing Obligatory though often thereunto requested
                hath not payd, but the same to pay hath Denyed and still doth