20        Provincial Court Proceedings, 1677.

            Liber N N  in Court produced whose date is the day & yeare aforesaid did
                   acknowledge himself e to be holden & firmely bounden unto the Said
                   Thomas in the just quantity of three thousand seventy One pounds
                   of good bright & large aronoco tobacco & caske to conteine the Same
                   due to be paid unto him the Said Thomas his certaine Attorny
                   executrs admrs or assignes at or before the first day of October next
                   ensueing the date of the same bill Obligatory in Some Secure tight
                   house upon his then dwelling plantation at Pyney point within half e
                   an English mile distance from Some convenient waterside where
                   boates may conveniently Come to take in the same for convenient
                   Shipping thereof To the payment thereof well & truly to be made the
                   said John Waghopp did bind himselfe his heirs executrs & admrs
                   firmly by those presents notwithstanding which the said John Waghop
                   the said summe of three thousand Seventy One pounds of tobacco
                   to him the said Thomas according to the tenor of the Said bill
                   Obligatory hath not paid though often thereunto required but the
                   Same to pay hath denyed & as yet doth deny whereupon the said
                   Thomas Saith he is dampnified & hath lost to the value of foure thou
                   sand pounds of tobacco & thereupon he bringeth his Suite.
                     Now here at this day to wit the twentith day of June in the Second
                   yeare of the Dominion of Charles &c Annoq3 Doth 1677 Came the
                   said John Waghop by Kenelm Cheseldyn his Attorny and saith that
                   as to Sixteen hundred & thirty pounds of tobacco part of the said
                   summe in the declaration mentioned he hath paid & Satisfied but
                   as to fourteen hundred forty One pounds of tobacco the remainder
                   he cannot gainsay for that he oweth the same to the said Thomas
                   Whereupon it is granted by the Court here that the Said Thomas
                   Notley recover against the Said John Waghopp aswell the summe of
                   fourteene hundred forty One pounds of tobacco the debt aforesaid
                   as also the summe of One hundred sixty foure pounds of tobacco
                   costs of Suite.

              p. 321 Thomas Notley Esq David Driver late of St Maries County planter
                       agt otherwise called David Driver of st Maries
                David Driver     County was Sumöned to answer unto the
                                 Honble Thomas Notley Esq Cheife justice of
                   the Provinciall Court according to the libertyes & priviledges &c
                   allowed of a plea that he render unto him the just quantity of two
                   thousand One hundred & six pounds of good bright & large arenoco
                   tobacco & caske to conteine the Same which to him he oweth & un
                   justly deteineth.
                     And whereupon the said Thomas Notley by Robert Ridgely his
                   Attorny Saith that whereas the said David the 27th day of April in
                   the 43th yeare of the Dominion of the late Right Noble Lord Caecilius
                   &c deceased over this Province & in the yeare of Our Lord God
                   1675 by his certaine bill Obligatory Sealed with the Seale of him