22        Provincial Court Proceedings, 1675.

           Liber N N  thereunto required would well & truly content and pay notwithstand-
                  ing which the said Wm his promise & assumption So as aforesaid
                  made little regarding but fraudulently intending him the said Chris-
                  topher in this part craftily and Subtilly to deceive the said summe
                  as aforesaid to him the Said Christopher according to his promise
                  though often thereunto required hath not paid but the same to pay
                  hitherto hath and still doth altogether deny to the damage of him
                  the said Christopher fifty pounds Sterling & thereupon he bringeth
                  his suite.
                    And the said Wm by Benjamin Rozer his Attorny cometh and
                  defendeth the force & injury when &c and prayeth liberty of Speake-
                  ing hereunto untill the next Provinciall Court and it is granted him
                  the same day is given to both parties.
                    Now here at this day to wit the twentith day of November in the
                  44th yeare of the Dominion of Caecilius &c came the said William
                  Tailer by his Attorny aforesaid but the said Christopher came not
                  to prosecute his plaint aforesaid Therefore it is considered by the
                  Court here that the said Wm Tailer recover against the Said Christo-
                  pher Cooke the summe of Six hundred and fourteen pounds of to-
                  bacco for his costs of Suite in this behalf e expended and the said
                  Christopher in mercy for his false claime.

                  Ann Palm Executrix William Tailer late of Charles County was at-
                     Jno Palm tached to answer unto Ann Palm Relict and
                     agt Executrix of the last will & Testament of John
                Wm Tailer        Palin late of the Citty of Yorke in the King-
                                 dome of England Grocer deceased in a plea of
                                trespas upon the case.
                    And whereupon the said Ann by Kenelm Cheseldyn her Attorny
                  Complaineth that whereas the said Wm the day of in
                  the yeare of Our Lord Stood indebted unto the said John Palm in
                  the summe of twenty two pounds Sterling mony of England In
              p. 15   consideration whereof the said William did assume upon himself e
                  and unto the said John did faithfully promise that he the said Wm
                  the said summe of two and twenty pounds Sterling as aforesaid unto
                  him the said John when thereunto required would well and truly
                  content and pay notwithstanding which the said Wm his promise and
                  assumption So as aforesaid made little regarding but fraudulently
                  intending her the said Ann in this part craftily and Subtilly to deceive
                  the Said Summe as aforesaid to him the said John in his life tyme
                  nor unto the Said Ann Sithence the death of the Said John Executrix
                  of the last will & testament of the said John according to his promise
                  hath not paid though often thereunto required but the Same to pay
                  hitherto hath and Still doth altogether deny to the damage of her
                  the Said Ann forty pounds Sterling & thereupon she bringeth her
                  suite.