Provincial Court Proceedings, 1676.     361
         Robert Ridgely                              Liber N N
             ag                            this cause continued until next Court.
         Morgan Jones admr
          of George Charlsworth

         Richard Peacock Henry Rider late of st Maries County was attached p. 221
           agt to answer unto Richard Peacocke merchant &
         Henry Rider Company in a plea of trespas upon the case.
                      And whereupon the said Richard by Robert
         Carvile his Attorny complaineth that whereas the said Henry the
         twentith day of October Anno DoTh 1674 Stood indebted to him the
         Said Richard & Company in the full and just quantity of fourteen
         hundred and two pounds of tobacco for divers wares and mer-
         chandizes before that tyme Sold and delivered a particular whereof
         is here in Court delivered and being so indebted the said Henry in
         Consideration thereof did assume upon himselfe and to the said
         Richard and Compa did faithfully promise that he the said Henry
         the aforesaid fourteen hundred & two pounds of tobacco to them
         the said Richard and Company when thereunto required would well
         and faithfully content & pay notwithstanding which the said Henry
         his promise & assumption so as aforesaid made little regarding but
         deviseing and fraudulently intending them the said Richard and
         Compa of the said fourteen hundred & two pounds of tobacco craftily
         & suhtilly to deceive & defraud the said Summe of fourteen hundred
         & two pounds of tobacco to them the said Richard and Compa though
         often thereunto required hath not paid but the same to pay hath
         altogether denyed and still doe deny whereupon they say they are
         dampnified & have losse to the value of three thousand pounds of
         tobacco And thereupon they bring their suite.
          And the said Henry by Robert Ridgely his Attorny cometh &
         defendeth the force and injury when &c and prayeth liberty of
         Speakeing hereunto untill the next Court & it is granted him the same
         day is given to the said Richard.
          Now here at this day to wit the eighth day of December Anno
         Doth 1676 came the said Richard by his Attorny aforesaid but the
         said Henry came not but made default whereupon it is granted by the
         Court here that the said Richard Peacocke & Compa recover against
         the said Henry Rider the summe of fourteen hundred & two pounds
         of tobacco damages Occasioned by the trespas aforesaid as also the
         summe of six hundred and Seaven pounds of tobacco costs of suite &
         the said Henry in mercy &c

         Elizabeth Delaroch executrx of the plt Delaroch sues the deft upon
          Charles Delaroch    a bill for One thousand forty six
             agt              pounds of tobacco, and the plain
         Mathias Woods        tiff Woods sues the deft Delaroch