486 MARYLAND COURT OF APPEALS

teen hundred and Twenty four at Annarundell County af^d Did draw and De-
liver unto the Said Thomas Bordley four Bills of Exchange all of one Tenour
and Dated the Twenty Seventh Day of May Anno Dom Seventeen hundred
and Twenty four af^d Drawn by the Said Thomas Cockey upon M^r Jonathan
Forward Merchant in London Payable to the Said Thomas Bordley for the
Sum of Seven hundred and Twenty Pounds Ster^l and that the S^d Jonathan
Forward Afterw^ds To Witt the Twenty fifth Day of August Anno Dom Seven-
teen hundred and Twenty four at London To Witt at Annarundell County
af^d was Demanded by W^m Hunt the order of the Said Thomas Bordley for
the use of the S^a Thomas Bordley According to the Custome of Merchants to
pay the first of the S^d Bills of Exchange the Second third and fourth of the
Same Bills not being then or any other Time paid Nevertheless the Said
Jonathan Forward the Said first Bill ore any one of the Said Bills or the Sum
of Seven hundred and Twenty Pounds therein mentioned hath not any Time
paid to the Said Thomas Bordley or unto his order According to The Tenour
of the Bills of Exchange af^a nor otherwise and this he is ready to Verifie
wherefore he prays Judgment and his Debt af^d together [681] With his
Damages by Occasion of Detaining the Same Debt to him to be Adjudged etc

And the Said Robert Gordon Saith that the plea af^d by the af^d [sic] by
the Said Thomas Bordley by Replication above pleaded and the matter
therein Contained are not Sufficient in Law to mantain the Action af^d or to
Compell him the Said Robert Gordon to answer or Rejoyn thereto And that
he to that plea hath no need nor by the Law of the Land is held to Answer
or Rejoyn And this he is ready to Verifye Wherefore for Want of a Sufficient
Replication in this Part the Said Thomas as before prays Judgment that the
Said Thomas Bordley from having or Mantaining his Action af^d Against him
be precluded

And the af^d Thomas Bordley for that he hath above alledged Sufficient
Matter in Law in his Replication af^d his Action af^d Ag^t him the Said Robert
Gordon to have and mantain which he is ready to Verifie which matter the
Said Robert Gordon hath not Gainsayed Nor to the Same in anywise An-
swered but the Same Verification to Admitt doth altogether refuse the Said
Thomas Bordley as before prays Judgment and his Debt together with his
Damages by Occasion of Detaining the Same Debt to him to be Adjudged

Whereupon all and Singular the premisses being by the Court here
Seen heard and fully Understood and Mature deliberation being thereupon
had for that it Seems to the Court here that the Plea af^d by the af^a Thomas
Bordley above by Replication pleaded and the Matter in the Same Con-
tained are good and Sufficient in Law his Action af^d Ag^t him the Said Robert
Gordon to have and Mantain

Therefore it is Considered by the Justices here this i9^th Day of October
Anno Dom 1725 that the Said Thomas Bordley Recover Ag^t the Said Robert
Gordon as well the Sum of Fourteen hundred and forty Pounds Ster^l his