92        Provincial Court Proceedings, 1681.

 Liber W. C.     ister unto him the said Hugh such Chyrurgery meanes as the said
                 John in the best of his Judgment thought proper for the Cureing
                 him the said Hugh of the said Hurt & Lamenesse, and also administer
                 unto him the said Hugh such Physicall meanes as in the best of his
                 Judgment was Necessary for the Restoracon of the said Hugh unto
                 his health of body and cureing the distempers of wch he then Lan
                 guished, The said Hugh the sixteenth day of in the
                 yeare 1679 aforesaid Did assume upon himself and to the said John
                 ffaithfully pmise that he the said Hugh would pay unto him the said
                 John Peirce for his Chirurgery meanes the sume of Eight hundred
                 pounds of Tobacco and also for his Phisicall meanes what for the
                 same he should deserve when thereunto required, And the said John
                 Peirce Exr as aforesaid in fact sayth that the said John Peirce
                 deceased in his life time and administer unto him the said Hugh such
                 Chirurgery meanes as was prop in the best of his Judgment for
                 Cureing the said Hurt and Lamenesse & did also cure the said Hugh
                 of the same, and also did Admr unto him the said Hugh such Phisicall
                 meanes & medicines as in the best of his skill and Judgment was
                 prop to Recover the said Hugh of the bodily Distempers of wch hee
                 then Languished, a perticuler of wch Phisicall meanes is here in
                 Court produced, and that for the same the said John Peirce decd did
         p. 475  well deserve the sume of One thousand & forty pounds of Tobacco,
                 wch Together the sume of eight hundred pounds of Tobacco
                 for the Chirurgery meanes aforesaid in the whole doe amount to
                 the sume of One thousand Eight hundred and forty pounds of
                 Tobacco, Notwithstanding wch the said Hugh the said sume of One
                 Thousand eight hundred and forty pounds of tobacco to him the said
                 John Peirce in his life time Nor to the said John Peirce since
                 his Death Exr of the Last will and Testament of the said John
                 deceased hath not paid but the same to him to pay hitherto hath and
                 still denyes to pay to the Damage of him the said John Executor as
                 aforesaid the sume of three Thousand pounds of Tobacco, and there
                 upon he bringeth his suite, and the said John Peirce bringeth here
                 into Court the Letters Testamentary to him granted that it may
                 appeare to the Court here he is Executor of the last will and
                 Testament of the said John Peirce Decd. and thereupon to have
                 administracon
                  And the said Hugh Hartshorne by Robert Ridgely his Attorney
                 cometh and Defendeth the force and Injury when &ca and Prayeth
                 Liberty to imparle hereunto untill next Provinciall Court and it is
                 granted unto him the same day is given to the plantiffe Likewise
                  Now here at this day to wit the seaventeenth day of November
                 in the sixth yeare of the Dominion of the Right honoble Charles Lord
                 Baltimore &c Anno Doni 1681 Came the said partyes by their Attor
                 neys aforesaid and the said Hugh Hartshorne by his said Attorney
                 sayth that he did not assume and promise in manne[r] & forme as the
                 said John above in his Declaracon aforesaid against him hath Corn-