Provincial Court Proceedings, 1677.     19

           And whereupon the said John ifanning by Kenelm Cheseldyn Liber N N
         his Attorny cometh & defendeth the force & injury when &c & the
         said John prayeth the hearing of the said writeing Obligatory and
         it is read unto him he also prayeth the hearing of the Condition
         of the same writeing Obligatory and it is read unto him in these
         words vizt The Condition of the above obligation is such that if the
         abovebounden John fianning shall well & truly pay or cause to be
         paid unto the abovesaid Thomas Motley or to his executrs admrs or p. 320
         assignes the just quantity of ten thousand five hundred fifty five
         pounds of good bright & a large aronoco tobacco & caske to conteine
         the Same at or before the tenth day of October next ensueing the
         date of the above Obligation in some Secure tight house in Charles
         or St Maries County within halfe an English mile distance from
         some convenient waterside where boates may conveniently come to
         take in the same for convenient Shipping thereof without fraud or
         delay then the abovesaid Obligation to be void & of no effect other
         wise to stand & remaine in full force power & virtue which being
         read & heard the said John ffanning in his proper person the twentith
         day of June Anno 1677 came & Saith that as to Eight thousand
         foure hundred Eighty five pounds of tobacco part of the said ten
         thousand five hundred fifty five pounds of tobacco he cannot gainsay
         for that he oweth the said summe to the Said Thomas Notley & is
         content that judgment passe against him for the same & as to two
         thousand & Seventy pounds of tobacco other part of the said ten thou
         sand five hundred fifty five pounds of tobacco he the said John hath
         paid Whereupon it is granted by the Court here that the said Thomas
         Notley recover against the Said John ifaning the summe of Eight
         thousand foure hundred eighty five pounds of tobacco the debt afore
         said as also the Summe of five hundred fifty two pounds of tobacco
         costs of suite

         Thomas Notley Esq John Wahobb late of st Maries County other
             agt wise called John Waghobb of St Maries
         John WahobbCounty planter was Sumoned to answer unto
         the Honbl Thomas Notley Esq Cheife justice
         of the Provinciall Court according to the libertyes and priviledges
         &c allowed of a plea that he render unto him the just quantity of
         three thousand seventy One pounds of good bright & large Aranoco
         tobacco & caske to conteine the same which to him he oweth & un
         justly deteineth
           And whereupon the said Thomas by Robert Ridgely his Attorny
         saith that whereas the said John the third day of May in the three
         & fortith yeare of the Dominion of the late Right Noble Lord
         Caecilius &c deceased (over this Province) & in the yeare of Our
         Lord God One thousand six hundred seventy five by his certaine
         bill Obligatory sealed with the scale of him the said John & here