56 MARYLAND COURT OF APPEALS

Att which Said next Provinciall Court (to witt) att a Prov^ll Court held
att the Town and Porte of Annapolis the 8^th Day of December in the Eighth
Year of the reigne of our Sovereigne Lord King [84] William the 3^o etc. Anno
Dni 1692

Before: The Hon^ble Robert Smith; Richard Hill; Thomas Tasker; Philip
Hoskins and Thomas Staley, Justices present

Came again the Said Partys by their Attorneys af^d

MARYLAND ss. Thomas Tench Esq^r Adm^r of all the goods and Chattells
of Lyonel Copy Esq^r dec^d was Attached to Answer unto Elizabeth Blakiston
Adm^r of all the goods and Chattells of Nehemiah Blakiston Esq^r Late Coll^r
and receiV of their Matys Customs in Potomock District of a Plea of Trespass
upon the Case which Said Nehemiah was and whose Adm^r as Such is indebted
unto their S^d Matys and unable to Satisfy the Same untill She Shall recover
from the Said Thomas Tench Adm^r as af^a a Certein Debt Due from the Said
Lyonell to the Said Nehemiah.

Whereupon the Said Elizabeth by Philip Clark her Attorney Saith that
whereas the Said Lyonel in his life time that is to Say the Last day of August
in the Year of our Lord 1693. Stood Justly Indebted unto the Said Nehemiah
in the Summe of i93^l-i4'-ioj Sterl and in the Quantity of 12000* of Tob-
bacco whereof the Said Tench Since the Death of the Said Lyonel has Satis-
fyed and paid unto the Said Nehemiah and Since the Death of the Said
Nehemiah unto the Said Elizabeth the Summe of 5g^!-o3^s-io^d So that there
remains Still due unto the Estate of the S^a Nehemiah from the Estate of the
Said Lyonel the Sume of i34¹-n^s-ooi^d and the S^d Quantity of 12000' of
Tobbacco as by a particular Acc^o hereunto Annexed it may Appear in Con-
sideration whereof the Said Lyonell in his life time that is to Say the day and
Year af^d att S^t Marys City in S^t Marys County did Assume upon himselfe and
faithfully promise unto the Said Nehemiah that he the Said Lyonel the Said
Summe of i93'-i4^B-ioi^d Sterl and the Said Quantity of 12000* [85] of Tob-
bacco unto the Said Nehemiah when thereunto required would well and
truly Content and pay. Yet notwithstanding the Said Lyonel in his life time
his promise and Assumption So as af^d made little reguarding but fraudu-
lently intending and minding him the S^d Nehemiah craftily and Subtily to
deceive and defraud the Summ of 193-14-10^ and the Said Quantity of
12000* of Tobbacco although often required Viz^t the day Year and place
aforesaid to the S^d Nehemiah hath not paid nor the Said Thomas Tench
Since the death of the Said Lyonel more thereof then the Said 59*— 3^s— io^d to
the Said Nehemiah in his life time nor to the Said Elizabeth Since his death
Although often required by the Said Nehemiah in his life time that is to Say
the Last day of Sep¹ 1693 and by the Said Elizabeth Since his death Viz^t the
Last day of November following and att Severall other times hath not paid
but the Same to her to pay hath denyed and Still doth deny whereupon She