14        Provincial Court Proceedings, 1677.

                      Liber N N Mary Clements Exrx Jno
                                  Clement
                                    agt
                                 John Cocke
                                 Jno Quigley
                                    agt
                   John Creycroft
                   Stephen Murty admr Jno
                                   Balley
                                    agt
                                Philip Lynes
                   Garret Vansweringen
                                    agt
                   George Thompson
                   Mathias De Ring
                                    agt
                   Henry Johnson & uxr exrx
                     Nathaniel Vtie.

             p. 317 Thomas Chapman Marmaduke Semme late of st Maries County
                        agt planter Otherwise called Marmaduke Semme of
                 Marmaduke Semme j    St Maries County was sumöned to answer unto
                                 Thomas Chapman of Liverpoole merchant of a
                   plea that he render unto him the whole & just quantity of five thou
                   sand five hundred pounds of good Sound merchantable leafe tobacco
                   in caske which to him he oweth & unjustly deteineth.
                     And whereupon the said Thomas Chapman by Robert Ridgely his
                   Attorny saith that whereas the said Marmaduke the two & twentith
                   day of ffebruary 1674 by his certaine bill obligatory Sealed with
                   the seale of him the said Marmaduke & here in Court produced whose
                   date is the day & yeare aforesaid did acknowledge himself e to be
                   oweing & firmly indebted unto the said Thomas the whole & just
                   quantity of five thousand five hundred pounds of good sound mer
                   chantable leafe tobacco & casque, to be paid at or before the first
                   day of October next ensueing the date thereof at some convenient
                   place in St Maries County & for good performance thereof the said
                   Marmaduke did bind himself e his heirs exrs & admrs notwithstanding
                   which the said Marmaduke the said five thousand five hundred
                   pounds of tobacco according to the tenor of the said writeing Obliga
                   tory though often thereunto required hath not paid to him the said
                   Thomas Chapman but the Same to pay hath denyed & as yet doth
                   deny whereupon the Said Thomas Saith he his dampnified & hath lost
                   to the value of Eight thousand pounds of tobacco & thereupon he
                   bringeth his suite.
                     And the said Marmaduke by Kenelm Cheseldyn his Attorny corn
                   eth & defendeth the force & injury when &c & prayeth liberty to irn