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82 June Court 1718 in his proper person and Saith that he cannot gainsay the Accõn afd of him the Said Pltf nor but that the writing obligatory above mentioned is his Act and deed and that he oweth unto the afd Plt. the afd Sume of five~ hundred & fifty pounds of Tobo and is willing that Judgment Should be entered for the Same & Cost thereon accruing : Therefore it is Considered by the Court here vizt. the Same day last mentioned that the afd Plt. Charles Newman Recover against the Said Deft~ Richard Marshall as well the afd Sume of five hundred and fifty pounds of Tobacco Debt as also the Sume of Three hundred and nine pounds of Tobacco Cost by the afd Plt about his Sute in this behalfe Expended and by the Court here of his assent adjudged and the Said Deft in mercy Jams Smith Clk
he have his body before his Said Lord Ships Justices of the next Court to be held at our Court house in the Town of Chester in Said County to Answer unto James Smith of a plea wherefore wth. fource and Armes the Close of him the Said James at St. Pauls Parish in Kent County afd in the Jurisdiciõn of this Court he did breake & enter and a certain Gray Gelding of the Said James Lately found and So provoked and outragious[:] :ly with Sticks and Clubbs did beat and Strike that with that provoking Striking and Beating did cause the Said Gelding then and there to runn upon a certain Thomas Smith Son and Servant of the Said James Smith the Said Thomas then and there being in the Said James’s Service whereby the Said Servant was thrown to the Ground and much hurt and wounded in his body by which the business of the afd James remained undone and So the Said James the Service of his Servant afd for a long time that is to Say for the Space of two months wholy lost and other injurys to him the Said James did to the great damage of the Said James and against the peace of the Said Lord proprietarie that now is and against an Act of Assembly in Such Case made & provided &ca. And that he have then and there the Said writ &ca. . . Att which Said next Court vizt. the Eighteenth day of March the Same yeare last mentioned the day of return of Said writ came Simon Wilmer Gent~. high Sherf of Said County and made return thereof in these words thereon Endorsed as folls vizt. Cepi Corpus pr S:Wilmer Sher |
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