58        Provincial Court Proceedings, 1681.

      Liber W.C.  Annoq Doni 1681 To answere unto James Phillips and Thomas
                 Cannon in a plea that he Rendr unto them the full and Just sume
                 of One hundred and Twenty thousand pounds of good sound Mar
                 chantable Tobacco & Caske wch to them hee oweth and unjustly
                 Detaineth,
                   On wch said six and Twentyeth day of Aprill Capt John stanesby
                 sheriffe of the County aforesaid made returne of the writt aforesaid
                 That by vertue thereof hee hath attached goods of the estate of the
                 said George Gunnell Appraised by Edwd Reeves and William Os
                 bourne Junir the Ninth day of March 1680 That is to say, One Cheese
                 presse and shovell at Eighty pounds of Tobacco, One Goose and
                 Gander att Eighty pounds of Tobacco, One grubbing Howe and
                 Two paire of ffetters att one hundred poun.ds of Tobacco & one
                 paire of stilliards att fforty pounds of Tobacco, & also on the fifteenth
                 day of March 168o he attached of the estate of the said George
                 Gunnell Seaven hogsheads of Tobacco Containing Two thousand
                 eight hundred and sixty pounds of Neate Tobacco, and an Obligacon
                 from Richard Edmonds of Cecill County to George Gunnell for the
                 sume and Just Quantity of ffive thousand one hundred and Eighteene
                 pounds of Tobacco, in all amounting to the sume of Eight thou
                 san[d] Two hundred seaventy eight pounds of Tobacco Whereupon
         p. 440  the said James Phillip[s] and Thomas Cannon by Robert Ridgely
                 their Attorney Prayed that the said sume of eight thousand Two
                 hundred seaventy eight pounds of Tobacco soe attached as aforesaid
                 might be condemned unto them upon Giveing security according to
                 Act of Assembly in that Case made and Provided, and Itt was
                 granted by the Court here
                   Now here att this day to witt the Eighth day of Octobr in the
                 sixth yeare of the Dominion of the Right honoble Charles Lord
                 Balteniore &ca Annop Doni 1681 Came the said James Phillips and
                 Thomas Cannon with Richard Edmonds & Thomas Hedge of Balte
                 more County aforesaid his suretyes Who undertooke for the said
                 James Phillips and Thomas Cannon in the sume of Eight Thousand
                 Two hundred seaventy eight 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
                 resititucOn of the sd sume of Eight Thousand Two hundred seaventy
                 eight pounds of Tobacco of the Vallue thereof in case the said
                 George Gunnell shall by him self 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 Con
                 demned the said sume of Eight Thousand two hundred seaventy
                 eight pounds of Tobacco soe attached as aforesaid