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March Court 1716 138 ninety and eight pounds of Merchantable Tobacco of ye price of Sixty Shillings Sterling money which he unjustly detains &ca And that he have then and there the Said writ &ca Att which Said next Court vizt. the nineteenth day of March the Same Year last mentioned the day of return of Said writ came William Frisby Gent high Sherf of Sd County and made return thereof in these words thereon endorsed at folls vizt. Cepi Corpus pr William Ffrisby Sherf And A Decln being filed in Said Accõn and a Copy thereof Served therew.th according to Act of Assembly in Such Cases made was as folls Kent County Ss John Burk of Kent County Planter was Sumoned to Answer unto James Harris late Sherf of Kent County afd of a plea that he render to him ye Sume of Six hundred ninety & Eight pounds of Merchantable Tobacco fo the price of Sixty Shillings Sterling money which he unjustly detains &ca And whereupon ye afd James by Thomas Bowne his attry Saith that whereas the afd John ye Second day of . March Anno Domini Seventeen hundred & thirteen at St. Pauls Parish in Kent County afd within ye Jurisdiciõn of this Court had accounted with ye afd James of divers Sums of Tob.o to the Said James by the Said John before that time for fees and publick Leveys owing and unpaid and upon that Accounting the afd John was found in arrearage towards the afd James in Six hundred ninety and eight pounds of Merchantable Tobacco of the price of Sixty Shillings - Sterling money by which Accõn hath arcrew’d to the Said James to Exact & have of the afd John ye afd Six hundred ninety & Eight pounds of Tobacco Yet the afd John altho’ often required the afd Six hundred ninety & Eight pounds of Tob.o to the Said James hath not rendered but that to render the Said John hitherto hath denied and yet denys and unjustly detains to the damage of ye Said James one hundred Shillings Sterling money and thereupon he brings Sute &ca TBowne pr qr. Plegs &ca. John Doe & Rd Roe . And the Deft being called came And the Said Plt by his attry afd prays that the Said Deft may give . Speciall baile to the above accõn which is granted and that he be kept in Safe Custody by the Sherf of Said County untill he Shall give . Speciall baile as afd: after which William Woodland of Said County comes into Court and acknowledges himselfe as Speciall baile in the above Accõn And doth under take for the Said Deft the payment of the Debt afd and Cost accruing if the Said Plt Shall obtaine Judgment against the Said Deft~ in the afd Accon and the Con |
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