Provincial Court Proceedings, 1681. 7

     Consideracon that the said John Beamon him the said Thomas Beech         Liber W. C.
     out of the Custody of the said Sheriffe would release discharge and
     suffer to goe at large, hee the said Henry Lewis did assume upon
     himself and to the said John Beaman did then and there faithfully
     promise that he the said Henry him the said John Beamon the said
     sume of One thousand twenty foure Pounds of Tobacco would well
     and truely Content and pay when thereunto required And the said
     John Beamon in fact saith that trusting to the faithfull promise &
     Assumption of the said Henry Lewis to him the said John Beamon
     so as aforesaid made he the said John Beamon the said Thomas
     Beech in the sheriffes custody aforesaid in ExecucOn for the said
     One thousand and Twenty foure pounds of Tobacco Remaining the
     day and yeare aforesaid in the County aforesd Did release discharge
     and out of the sheriffes custody deliver and Let goe at large, by
     reason whereof the said John Beamon against the said Thomas
     Beech of the fruites of the Judgment for One thousand Twenty
     foure pounds of Tobacco aforesaid hath wholly debarred and pre
     cluded himself Yet the said Henry in his life time nor the sd Elizabeth
     after his death (to whome the Execucon of the Testament of the
     said Henry since his death By the Honoble Philip Calvert Esq Comis
     sary generall or Judge for probate of Wills &c hath been comitted)
     Nor the said John and Elizabeth since the Nuptialls between them
     Solemnized The said sume of one thousand Twenty foure Pounds
     of Tobacco to him the said John Beamon according to the promise
     of the said Henry to the said John in his life time so as aforesaid
     made although often thereunto required have not paid or satisfyed
     but the same to pay or satisfy have denyed, and as yet the said John
     & Elizabeth doe Denye To the Damage of the said John Beamon the
     sume of Eighteene hundred pounds of Tobacco And thereupon he
     brings his suite
      And the said John Bird and Elizabeth his wife by Robert Carvile
     their Attorney Come and defend the force and Injury when &c and
     Pray liberty to imparle hereunto untill next Provinciall Court and it
     is granted unto them, the same Day is Given to the plantiffe Likewise
      Now here at this day to wit the Twenty eighth day of Aprill in the
     sixth yeare of the Dominion of the Right Honoble Charles Lord Balte-      p. 391
     more &c Annoq Dominj 1681 Came the said partyes by their Attor
     neys aforesaid, and the said John Bird and Elizabeth his wife by their
     said Attorney say That the said Henry Lewis did not assume upon
     himself or to the said John Beamon make such promise as the said
     John Beamon above against them have Declared and of this they
     Put themselves upon the Country, And the Plantiffe Likewise,
     Therefore It is Comanded the Sheriffe of st Maryes County that hee
     Cause to Come here twelve &c by whome &c And who Neither &c
     To Recognize &c Because aswell &c
      On wth said Twenty eighth day of Aprill in the yeare aforesaid