Provincial Court Proceedings, 1677.     17

       chantable tobacco in caske to be paid to the said Lord Baltemore his Liber N N
       heirs or assignes To the which payment well & truly to be made the
       said John Carr did bind himselfe his heirs executrs & admrs firmly by
       those presents notwithstanding which the said John in his life time
       nor the Said Petronella Since the death of the said John while She
       was Sole nor the said George & Petronella since espousalls betweene
       them made celebrated to whom all & Singular the goods & chattells
       rights & credits which were of the Said John at the time of his
       death by administration have been Cothitted have not paid nor
       satisfied according to the tenor of the same writeing though often
       thereunto required but the said One hundred thousand pounds of
       tobacco to pay hath denyed & as yet doth deny to the damage of the
       said Lord Propry One hundred thousand pounds of tobacco Where
       upon the said Kenelm who in this behalfe for the said Lord Pro
       prietary prosecuteth bringeth his information & prayeth that the
       Said George & petronella his wife may come here into Court &
       answer in & upon the premisses.
         And the said George Oldfeild in his proper person cometh &
       defendeth the force and injury when &c and prayeth heareing of the
       said writeing & it is read unto him he also prayeth heareing of the
       Condition of the said writeing & it is read unto him in these words
       following The Condition of this Obligation is such that if the above
       bounden John Carr doe & Shall from tyme to time & at all times
       hereafter dureing the terme of his Sheriffalty within the said County
       of Cecil well & truly execute the Office of High Sheriff within the
       said County aswell in Serveing all writs warrants proces & other
       precepts to him lawfully directed & shall be brought & delivered to p. 319
       him as also performe all and every act & acts thing and things appur
       teineing or which shall appurteine to the said Office and also without
       voluntary concealment fraud or deceipt doe yeild & make just ac
       compt to his said Lopps his Lopps Leiut Generall his Officer or
       Officers in that behalfe to be authorized or appointed & of & for all
       and every such summe or Summes of mony rents revenues fines
       issues goods chattells tobacco profitts & perquisitts as shall come to
       his hands or as he ought justly to be charged with for or in respect
       of the Said Office And also for all Such ffees as shall accrue due to
       the Secretaryes Office to be by him Collected shall well & truly render
       just accompt thereof That then this present Obligation to be void
       & of none effect or else to stand in full force & virtue Which being
       read & heard the said George Saith nothing in barr or avoidance of
       the information aforesaid whereby the said Lord Proprietary as to
       the said summe nf One hundred thousand pounds of tobacco againot
       the said George & Petronella admrx of the Said John Carr as afore
       said remaine wholly thereof undefended
         Whereupon it is granted by the Court here to wit at st Maries
       the One & twentith day of June in the second yeare of his Lopps