Provincial Court Proceedings, 1681.

          Liber w. C.     pounds of Tobacco to her the said Margarett although hee the said
                  William Chesheire although afterwards to witt the tenth day of
                  Novembr in the yeare of our Lord 168o att Newtowne in the said
                  County hath beene thereunto requested hath not paid or satisfyed
                  but the same to pay and satisfy hath hitherto denyed and refused,
                  and still doth denye and refuse to pay the same to the Damage of the
                  said Margarett Six thousand pounds of Tobacco, and thereupon she
                  brings her suite
                   And the said William Chesheire by George Parker his Attorney
                  Cometh & defendeth the force and Injury when &Ca & sayth that as
                  to Three thousand five hundred & fourtee[n] pounds of Tobacco
                  part of the said sume of ffoure thousand pounds of Tobacco he
                  cannot gainsay the accon of the said Magarett because he sayth he
                  oweth to the said Margarett the said Three thousand five hundred
                  and fourteene pounds of Tobacco as the said Margarett above against
                  him hath Declared, Therefore Itt is Considered that the aforesaid
                  Margarett Stagg Doe Recover against the said William Chesheire
                  the said sume of Three thousand five hundred and fourteene pounds
                  of Tobacco Debt and ffive hundred eighty foure pounds of Tobacco
                  Costs of suite and the said William thereof in Mercy &c
                                                   Geo: Parker
              P.     438 Mr George Parker:
                   I doe hereby authorize and appoint you to be my Attorney & to
                  appeare for me in an accon of debt Comenced against me by Margarett
                  stagg widdow for foure Thousand pounds of Tobacco, and to accept
                  of a DeclaracOn and forthwith to Confesse Judgment to the said
                   stagg for Three thousand five hundred and fourteene pounds of
                  Tobacco wth costs of suite And for yor soe Doeing this shall be yor
                  Warrant Given undr my hand and seale the tenth day of August 1681
                                             Wm Chesheire—sealed
                  Testis ffrancis Catterson
                     To Mr Robert Carvile one of the Attorneys
                     of the Provinciall Court.

                 James Phillips & Comand was given to the sheriffe of Baltemore
                   Thomas Cannon County that hee attach any the goods or Chat
                    agt        ties of George Gunnell late of st Maryes County
                 George Gunnell     gentt otherwise Called George Gunnell of Balte
                 more County Chirurgion If they should be
                  found in his baliwick to the Vallue of one hundred and twenty thou
                  sand pounds of Tobacco, and when hee had the same Soe attached
                  or any part thereof the same in his Custody Keepe untill the Said
                  George Gunnell should by himself or his Attorney appeare here the
                  fourth day of October in the sixth yeare of the Dominion of the
                  Right Honoble Charles Lord Baltemore &c Annoq Doni 1681 to
                  answere unto James Phillips and Thomas Cannon in a plea that he