20        Provincial Court Proceedings, 1675.

           Liber N N  to owe and Stand indebted unto the said Joseph Brough the full &
                  just quantity of five thousand pounds of good Sound merchantable
                  leaf e tobacco in caske according to Act of Assembly to be paid to the
                  said Joseph Brough or to his certaine Attorny his executors admrs
                  or assignes at or upon the tenth day of November then next follow-
                  ing Yet notwithstanding the said Garret the said Summe of five
                  thousand pounds of tobacco to him the said Joseph in his life time
                  nor to him the said George Since the death of the said Joseph accord-
                  ing to the Said bond hath not hitherto paid or Satisfied though often
                  thereunto requested but the Same to pay hath altogether denyed
                  and refused and still doth deny to the damage of the said George
                  Seaven thousand pounds of tobacco & thereupon he bringeth his
                  Suite And he bringeth here into Court the Letters of Administration
                  of the Said Broughs estate by which it will appeare to the Court here
                  that he hath right to administration &c.
                    And the Said Garret by Kenelm Cheseldyn his Attorny cometh
                  & defendeth the force and injury when &c and prayeth the hearing
                  of the said bond & it is read unto him he also prayeth the heareing
                  of the Condition of the said bond and it is also read unto him in
                  these words following The Condition of this present Obligation is
                  such that if the abovebounden Gerard Vansweringen his heirs ex-
                  ecutors admrs or assignes shall truly and justly pay unto the above-
                  said Joseph Brough his heirs executors admrs or assignes the full &
                  just Sume of two thousand eight hundred pounds of tobacco in
                  caske qualified and qualityed as abovesaid in Some convenient place
                  betweene St Maries and Point Looke Out at or before the tenth day
                  of November abovespecified without fraud or further delay that then
                  this Obligation to be void & of none effect otherwise to Stand in
                  full power force effect & vertue. which being read & heard the said
                  Garret prayeth liberty of Speakeing hereunto untill the next Pro-
                  vinciall Court and it is granted him the same day is given to both
                  parties.
                    Now here at this day to wit the foure and twentith day of Novem-
                  ber in the 44th yeare of the Dominion of Caecilius &c Annoq Dom
                  One thousand six hundred seventy five Came the said. George by his
                  Attorny aforesaid and offered himself e against the said Garret in
                  the plea aforesaid but the said Garret came not but made default
                  Therefore it is considered by the Court here that the said George
                  recover against the Said Garret aswell the Summe of five thousand
                  pounds of tobacco the debt aforesaid as also the sume of Six hundred
                  thirty five pounds of tobacco costs of Suite.

              p. ‘4 Thomas Beale Charles Delaroch late of St Maries County other-
                      agt wise called Charles Delaroch of St Maries County
                Charles Delaroch     Inholder in the Province of Maryland was Sum-
                              oned to answer unto Thomas Beale in a plea that