Provincial Court Proceedings, 1681. 57

     Rendr unto them the full and Just sume of One hundred and Twenty Liber W. C.
     thousand pounds of good sound Marchantable Tobacco & Caske wch
     to them he oweth and unjustly Detaineth
      On wch said ffourth day of Octobr in the yeare aforesaid Capt
     John Stanesby Sheriffe of the County made returne of the writt
     aforesaid that by vertue thereof he hath attached in the hands of
     James Phillips one bill of Mary Harmers to Edward Bleeke, Michael
     perry and Thomas Lane of London Marchants for Two thousand
     one hundred fifty and eight pounds of Tobacco, One Noate Charged
     on John stanesby by George Denton for ifourteene hundred eighty
     and eight pounds of tobacco & one Noate of John Thomas Charged
     on John Carrington for foure hundred and three pounds of Tobacco,
     In all ffoure thousand forty nine pounds of Tobacco, Whereupon
     the said James Phillips and Thomas Cannon by Robert Ridgely their
     Attorney prayed that the said sume of ffoure thousand forty and
     nine pounds of Tobacco soe attached as aforesaid might be Con
     demned unto them upon giveing security according to Act of As
     sembly in that Case made & provided and Itt is granted by the Court
     here
      Afterwards to witt the ffifth day of October in the yeare aforesaid
     Came the said James Phillips & Thomas Cannon with Richard P. 439
     Edmonds and Thomas Hedge of Baltemore County aforesaid his
     suretyes, who undertooke for the said James Phillips in the sume
     of foure thousand forty nine pounds of Tobacco to indempnify this
     Court against all accons suites or other matters that shall or may
     happen touching or Concerning the said attachment, and shall make
     restitucOn of the said sume of ffoure thousand pounds of Tobacco
     or the vallue thereof in Case the said George Gunnell shall by himself
     or his Attorney appeare here within a Yeare and a Day, and proceed
     on in the said accon in Comon forme and make it appeare that the
     said James Phillips and Thomas Cannon are satisfyed their Just
     demands, And thereupon this Court Condemned the said sume of
     ffoure thousand and forty nine pounds of Tobacco soe attached as
     aforesaid.

     James Phillips & Comand was given to the sheriffe of Baltemore
     Thomas Cannon County that hee attach any the Goods or Chattles
         agt    of Genrge Gunnell late nf St Maryes County gentt
     George Gunnell otherwise called George Gunnell of Baltemore
                 County Chirurgion If they should be found in his
     Baliwick to the Vallue of One hundred and Twenty thousand pounds
     of good sound Marchantable Tobacco and Caske, and when he had
     the same soe attached or any part thereof the same in his Custody
     Keepe until the said George Gunnell should by himself or his Attor
     ney appeare here the Twenty Sixth day of Aprill in the sixth yeare
     of the Dominion of the Right Honobie Charles Lord Baltemore &ca