Provincial Court Proceedings, 1677.     21

       the said David & here in Court produced whose date is the day & Liber N N
       yeare aforesaid did acknowledge himself e holden & firmly bounden
       unto the said Thomas in the just quantity of two thousand One
       hundred & Six pounds of good bright & large arenoco tobacco &
       caske to conteine the same due to be paid to him the said Thomas
       Notley 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 in Clements Bay 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 which payment well & truly to be made
       at tyme & place aforesaid the said David Driver did bind himselfe
       his heirs executrs & admrs firmly by those prsents notwithstanding
       which the said David Driver the said Summe of two thousand One
       hundred & Six pounds of tobacco to him the said Thomas accord-
       ing to the tenor of the said bill Obligatory although often thereunto
       required hath not paid but the same to pay hath denyed & gainsayed
       & to pay the Same as yet doth deny & gainsay Whereupon the said
       Thomas Saith he is dampnified & hath lost to the value of three thou-
       sand pounds of tobacco & thereupon he bringeth his Suite.
         And the Said David Driver by John Jones his Attorny cometh
       & defendeth the force & injury when &c and saith nothing in barr
       or avoidance of the action aforesaid of him the said Thomas Where-
       upon the said Thomas remaineth against the said David wholly un-
       defended Wherefore it is granted by the Court the three & twentith
       day of June Anno Dom 1677 That the Said Thomas Notley Esqr
       recover against the said David Driver the said summe of two thou-
       sand One hundred & Six pounds of tobacco the debt aforesaid to-
       gether with five hundred thirty Six pounds of tobacco costs of Suite.

       John Watson
           agt
       Robert Graham
       the Same
         agt
       Stephen Murty
       Andrew Tenehill
           agt
       Thomas Bankes
       John Wynne
          agt                  these Seaven causes continued
       John Watson & Thomas Carlisle till October Court.
        exrs Jno Cunningham
       The Same
         agt
       Thomas Spink