450 PRINCE GEORGES COUNTY

Originall writt aforesaid by which the Said Nicholas Sporne remaineth against
the Said John Davis without Defence.

Therefore it is Considered that the Said Nicholas Sporne recover against the
Said John Davis The Sume of Eleven hundred and Six pounds of Tobacco his
Debt aforesaid and his Dammages by occation of deteineing the Said Debt to
two hundred Sixty and four pounds of Tobacco To the Said Nicholas Sporne
of his assent by the Court here adjudged and the Said John Davis in mercy.

Christopher Thompson Plantiff: Edmund Neale Defendant

Edmund Neal Late of Prince Georges County Planter was atteached to answer
unto Christopher Thompson of a Plea of Tresspas upon the Case etc.

And whereupon the Said Christopher by Joshua Cecell his Attorney Com-
pleineth that wheras the Said Edmund the 10th day of November 1697 att
Charles Towne within the Jurisdiction of this Court Stood indebted unto the
Said Christopher in the Sume of five hundred pounds of Tobacco being for
fifety Gallons of Syder before and at that time att the price of tenn pounds of
Tobacco for Each Gallon by the Said Christopher Sold and Delivered to the
Said Edmund as by a Perticular account thereof here unto annexed relation
being thereunto had may more att Large appear, And the Said Edmund to the
Said Christopher in manner aforesaid being indebted inconsideration thereof
did assume upon himselfe and to the Said Christopher then and there Faithfully
promise that hee the Said Edmund the Said Sume of five Hundred pounds of
Tobacco unto the Said Christopher when he Should by the Said Christopher
afterwards thereunto [be] requested would well and truely Content and pay
Nevertheless the Said Edmund his promise and assumption aforesaid not att
all regarding but mindeing and fraudulently intending him the Said Christopher
in that behalfe Craftily and Subtilly to deceive and defraud the Said Sume of
500 pounds of Tobacco or any part thereof to the Said Christopher hath not
Paid although the Said Edmund to doe the Same by the by the Said Christopher
afterwards the Day and Place aforesaid was often thereunto requested but the
Same to pay to the Said Christopher hath hitherto denyed and Still doth denye
to the Damage of the Said Christopher of one Thousand pounds of Tobacco
and thereof he brings this Suite etc.

Joshua Cecell for the plantiff. Pledges etc. John Doe, Richard Roe.

The Plantiff by Joshua Cecell his Attorney haveing Ishued out a writt against
the Defendant which Said writt was by the Sheriff returned that the Defendant
was not to be found in his Bailewick and Likewise have Caused a Coppy of the
Declaration to be Left att the house where the Defendant Last Lived, it is Like-
wise Testifyed that the Said Defendant hath alianed himselfe out of the Juris-
dictions of this Court whreupon the Said Christopher Thompson by his attorney
aforesaid prayeth an atteachment, against the Goods Chatties and Credditts of
Edmund Neale for the Said Sume of five hundred pounds of Tobacco afore said
as allso the Summ of four hundred and two pounds of Tobacco his Cost and
Charges in this behalfe Layd out and Expended and additionall Cost fifety too
pounds of Tobacco and by the Court it is Granted unto him.

lbs. Tobacco
To 50 Gallons of Syder Sold and Delivered att Severall times att 10 lbs.

Tobacco per Gallon .................................................. 500

The above Said account should have been putt imeadiately aftar Thompsons
Declaration.