Provincial Court Proceedings, 1681. 67

      in the service and Imployment of him the said Gerrard Slye as his           Liber W. C.
      Undersheriffe or Deputy as aforesaid the sume of ffoure thousand
      pounds of Tobacco a Yeare when he should be thereunto required,
      but would also pay Defray and Discharge all such his the said John
      Slyes necessary charges & expences by him the said John to be spent
      Laid out & expended in and about the service and businesse of him
      the said Gerrard Slye, And the said John Slye in ffact sayth that he
      the said John Slye trusting to the ffaithfull promisses of the said
      Gerrard Slye Did accept of the said Imployment & Entred into
      the service of the said Gerrard as his Deputy or Undersheriffe as
      aforesaid, and Did honestly and ffaithfully serve the said Gerrard
      Slye for all the time hee the said Gerrard did Continue high Sheriffe
      of the said County of st Maryes To wit from the first day of Aprill
      in the yeare of our Lord 1677 to the first day of Aprill in the yeare
      of our Lord 1679 being Two Compleate yeares for wch there became
      due to the said John Slye ifrom the said Gerrard Slye ffor his sallary
      and wages for the time aforesaid and after the rate of ffoure thousand
      pounds of Tobacco a Yeare the Sume of Eight thousand Pounds of
      Tobacco, And the said John slye ffurther in ffact sayth that he did
      Necessarily expend in itenerant charges & other necessary expences
      in attending the Provinciall and County Courts & otherwise about
      the affaires and service of him the said Gerrard slye Dureing the
      said Two yeares the sume of One thousand ffive hundred and Two
      pounds of Tobacco, both wch sumes Doe in the whole amount to the
      sume of Nine thousand five hundred and Two pounds of Tobacco Yet
      Notwithstanding the said Gerrard Slye his promise and assumption
      aforesaid Little regarding, but deviseing & ifraudulently intending
      him the said John slye in this behalfe Craftily and subtilly to deceive
      and Defraude The said sume of Nine thousand ffive hundred and
      Two pounds of Tobacco to him the said John Slye according to
      his promise and Assumption aforesaid though often thereunto re
      quested hath not payd or satisfyed but the same to pay and Satisfye
      hath hitherto Denyed and refused & still doth denye and refuse to
      Satisfy and pay the same to the Damage of the said John slye Six
      teene thousand pounds of Tobacco and thereupon he brings his suite
        And the said Gerrard Slye by Robert Ridgely his Attorney Corn
      eth & defendeth the force and Injury when &c and prayeth Liberty to
      Imparle untill the next Provinciall Court and It is granted unto him
      the same Day is Given to the plantiffe likewise
        Now here att this day to wit the seaventeenth day of Novembr p. 449
      in the sixth yeare of the Dominion of the Right Honble Charles
      Lord Baltemore &c Annoq Doni 1681 came the said partyes by their
      Attorneys aforesaid, and the said Gerrard Slye by his said Attorney
      sayth that he Did not assume and promise in manner and forme as
      the said John above in his Declaracon against him hath Complained
      and of this he putts himself Upon the Country, and the said plantiffe