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       parle hereunto untill next Court & it is granted unto him the same Liber N N
       day is given to the said Thomas Chapman.
         Now here at this day to wit the three & twentith day of June Anno
       1677 came the said Thomas by his said Attorny and offered himselfe
       against the said Marmaduke in the plea aforesaid but the said
       Marmaduke came not but made default Whereupon it is granted by
       the Court here that the said Thomas Chapman recover against the
       said Marmaduke Semme aswell the summe of five thousand five
       hundred pounds of tobacco the debt aforesaid as also the summe of
       five hundred thirty six pounds of tobacco costs of suite.

       John Addison Clement Hill Henry Carew & Robert Carvile Gent
         agt Executrs of the last will & testamt of Elizabeth Moy
     Moyes Exrs  deceased Executrix of the last will & testament of
                 Richard Moy deceased were SumOned to answer unto
       John Addison of a plea that they render unto him the just quantity
       of two thousand Eight hundred pounds of good leafe tobacco & caske
       which from him they unjustly deteine.
         And whereupon the said John Addison by Robert Ridgely his
       Attorny Saith that whereas the said Richard Moy in his life time
       to wit the three & twentith day of June 1674 by his certaine bill
       Obligatory Sealed with the seale of him the said Richard Moy here
       in Court produced whose date is the day & yeare aforesaid did bind
       himselfe his heirs executrs admrs & assignes to be oweing & indebted
       unto the said John Addison in the just quantity of two thousand
       Eight hundred pounds of good leafe tobacco & caske to be paid at
       the said Richard Moyes Owne Plantation or then dwelling house
       upon the tenth day of October next ensueing the day of the date of
       the same bill Obligatory & for good performance thereof the said
       Richard did bind himselfe his heirs executrs admts & assignes to him
       the said John Addison his heirs executrs admrs & lawfull Attorny
       notwithstanding which the said Richard Moy in his life tirnc nor the
       said Elizabeth since his death to whom the execution of the Testa
       ment of the said Richard since his death was committed, nor the
       said Clement Henry & Robert since the death of the said Elizabeth
       to whom the execution of the testament of the said Elizabeth Since
       her death hath beene committed the said summe of two thousand
       eight hundred pounds of tobacco to him the said John Addison ac
       cording to the tenor of the said writeing Obligatory have not paid
       though often thereunto required but the same to pay have refused
       & denyed and as yet doe refuse & deny to pay the same Whereupon
       the said John Addison Saith he is dampnified and hath lost to the
       value of foure thousand pounds of tobacco & thereupon he pro
       duceth his suite.
         And the said Defendants by the Said Robert Carvile came & de
       fend the force & injury when &c & pray liberty to imparle hereunto