MARYLAND COURT OF APPEALS 493

of Exchange to Thomas Bordley Esq^r (the Said Powlsons Attorney or Agent
in the Severall proceedings at Law mentioned in the Said Report) Who Aft-
erw^ts Sent the Same to England to be Accepted by your Orator Whereupon
your Orator's refusal So to do the Same was protested for Non payment and
Your Orator further Sheweth unto your Honour that Such Bill being re-
turned protested as af^a he the Said Thomas Bordley by Means of the Non
payment thereof Which as the Said Bordley pretended Amounted to a very
Large Sum of Money and the Said Cockey being greatly Terrifyed thereat
Thereupon and to put a Stop to the Said Bordleys proceedings in Such Suit
was again Induced and oblidged and Accordingly did Draw another Bill of
Exchange on your Orator dated the Twenty Seventh of May 1724 for Seven
hundred and Twenty Pounds Sterling payable to the Said Bordley or order
as for Value reced tho really and in truth the Said Cockey never had or reced
any Value for the Same Such Last mentioned bill of Exchange being gotten
and obtained by the S^d Bordley from the Said Cockey by the means af^d and in
Lieu or in Satisfaction as the Said Bordley prtended of and for the Said Six
hundred Pounds Bill of Exchange So returned protested and the Interest
and Damages incident to Such protest and the Said Bordley in his Conscience
knows the Same to be true and that there was no other foundation or pre-
tence for the Said Cockeys Drawing Such Seven hundred and Twenty pound
Bill of Exchange and the Said Thomas Bordley has not only the Said last
mentioned Bill of Exchange in his Custody and a bond or Obligation Exe-
cuted by Thomas Cockey Robert Gordon and W^m Rogers and Mary his Wife
or Some or one of them for Secureing the Payment of the Said Seven hundred
and Twenty Pounds Bill of Exchange to the Said Bordley And a Note under
the hand of an Agents of your Orators John Moale or Some other Instrument
in Writeing Whereby the Said Moale hath oblidged himself to pay to the
Said Bordley for 2O,ooo^lb of Tobacco and upwards and fifty Pounds Sterling
Which the Said Bordley did and Doth pretend was and is due to him for
Costs and Charges in Law in Some or one of the above mentioned Suits
against your Orator and the Said Cockey or One of them or Relateing thereto.
But also the Said Bordley has had and gotten Severall other Writeings and
Securitys from your Orators Agents or Some of them which they were
oblidged and Constrained to enter into to prevent the Seizure of the goods
and Effects of your Orator and the Said Cockey or one of them at the Suit
of the S^d Powlson or Bordley or one of them for and one Account of their or
one of their pretended Demands all which Bills of Exchange Bond Note
Writeings and Securitys Ought to be Delivered up and Cancelled the Sev-
erall Judgments and proceedings under pretence or Colour whereof the
Same were gotten [688] and obtained having been by his Majesty reversed
and Set aside as af^d and your Orator having paid and been put to great
Charges and Expences in and by means of the S^d Several unjust and Vexa-
tious Suits and proceedings well hoped to have been reinbursed the Same by