Provincial Court Proceedings, 1681. 95

     Attorney sayth that Whereas the said James Mills the eighth day of         Liber W. C.
     May One thousand six hundred and Eighty at st Maryes Citty in the
     County of st Maryes in the Province aforesaid, did Borrow of the
     said William Digges the said full and Just Quantity of Two thou
     sand seaven hundred ffifty five pounds of Marchantable Tobacco and
     Caske to be payd to the said William Digges when hee should be
     thereunto required Neverthelesse the said James Mills Although
     often thereunto required the said sume of Two thousand seaven hun
     dred and ffifty five pounds of Tobacco to the said William hath not
     Rendred but hath hitherto denyed and doth still denye to Render
     the same unto him Whereupon the said William sayth he is Damni
     fled & hath Losse to the vallue of Five thousand pounds of Tobacco,
     and thereupon hee bringeth his suite
      And the said James Mills by Robert Carvile his Attorney Corneth
     and defendeth the force and Injury when &c and prayeth Liberty to
     Imparle hereunto untill next Provinciall Court and it is granted unto
     him the same day is given to the plt. Likewise
      Now here at this Day to wit the Eighteenth day of November in
     the sixth yeare of the Dominion of the Right honoble Charles Lord
     Baltemore &ca Annoq Doni. 1681 Came the said partyes by their
     Attorneys aforesaid, and the said William [Digges] by his said At-         p. 478
     torney refuseth to make any further prosecucon against the said
     James Mills in the plea aforesaid Therefore It is Considered that
     the said Wm Digges take nothing by his writ aforesaid but be in
     mercy for his false Claime thereon and that the said James Mills
     goe thereof without day and that the said James Mills Recover
     against the said William Digges the sume of One thousand and
     seaventy three pounds of tobacco for his Costs and Charges by him
     about his Defence in this behalfe Laid out & expended and the said
     James Mills may have thereof ExecucOn

    Lewis Blangey Francis Catterson late of St Maryes County
         agt other wise called ffrancis Catterson of the Citty
  Francis Catterson of St Maryes in the Province of Maryland Inn-
                 holder was Sumoned to answere unto Lewis
     Blangey of a plea that he Render unto him the sume of three Thou
     sand pounds of Tobacco wch to him he oweth and unjustly detaineth
      And Whereupon the said Lewis by Robert Carvile his Attorney
     sayth that whereas the said Francis upon the fourteenth day of ffeb
     ruary in the yeare of our Lord 1680 by his Certaine bill or writeing
     obligatory sealed with the seale of him the said ffrancis and here in
     Court produced whose date is the day and yeare abovesaid did
     acknowledge himself to be holden and firmely bound to the said Lewis
     Blangey in the full & Just sume of Three thousand pounds of good
     sound Tobacco to be payd to the said Lewis upon Demand Convenient
     in the County of Kent in the Province aforesaid, Yet Notwithstand