Provincial Court Proceedings, 1681.     8i

     places aforesaid Did therefore to a Certaine instrument of protest Liber W. C.
     subscribe his name and put to his wonted and accustomed seale (being
     requested) to Certify and Testify the premisses, wch said instrument
     of protest is by the said Cuthbert here in Court produced, Now the
     said John Steventon the Younger Little regarding his promise and
     Assumption made as aforesaid, but plotting & fraudulently Intend
     ing him the said Cuthbert of the said Eight pounds Twelve shillings
     to deceive and Defraude, the same eight pounds Twelve shillings to
     him the said Cuthbert hath not paid although often thereunto Re
     quired, but Doth Utterly refuse to pay the same, By wch the said p. 463
     Cuthbert the whole proffit gaines and advantage wch he wth the said
     Eight pounds Twelve shillings if it had been payd to the said Cuth
     bert according to the promise of the said Jno in that behalfe made, by
     buying and selling and Lawfully bargaineing with the same might
     have had and gained, is Now Totally Lost and Deprived of Where
     upon he saith he is Damnified and hath Lost to the Vallue of seaven
     teen pounds sterling, and thereupon hee bringeth his suite, And
     the said Cuthbert Drew bringeth here into Court aswell the said bill
     of Exchange as ye instrumt of protest whereby the premisses may
     the more sufficiently appeare unto ye Court in manner and forme as
     is aforesaid
       And the said John Steventon by Kenelm Cheseldyn his Attorney
     cometh and Defendeth the force and Injury when &c and prayeth
     Liberty to impar!e hereunto untill 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 Eighteenth day of Novembr in
     the sixth yeare of the Dominion of the Right Honoble Charles Lord
     Baltemore &Ca Annoq Doni 1681 Came the said Cuthbert Drew by his
     Attorney aforesaid & offered himself against the said John steventon
     in the plea aforesaid but the said John Steventon Come not but
     made Default Therefore It is Considered that the said Cuthbert
     Drew Recover against the said John Steventon aswell the aforesaid
     sume of Eight pounds Twelve shillings sterling the debt aforesaid
     and his Damages sustained by Occasion of the premisses at thirty
     p Cent amounting to Two pounds Tenn shillings & three pence
     sterling, as also the sume of ffive hundred seaventy Nine pounds of
     Tobacco for costs of suite, and the said Deft in mercy &ca:

     Owen Guither Admr Gerrard Slye late of St Maryes County was
     of Mary Jones attached to answere unto Owen Guither Admr
        agt        of the goods and Chattles of Mary Jones deed
     Gerrard Slye of a plea of Trespasse of the case
                     And Whereupon the said Owen by Robert
     Carvile his Attorney sayth that Whereas the said Mary upon the
     Ninth day of Aprill in the yeare of our Lord 1679 at St Michaels
     hundred in St Maryes County in the Province aforesaid was posessed