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June Court
1741
123 Att which day here Came the af.d John Newbold by George Douglas his Attorney and the sheriffe to witt John Handy Gent now here returned that he had taken the af.d Joarib Field whose body here at this day he had ready to answer the af.d John Newbold of the af.d plea as to him it was Commanded Whereupon the said Joarib Feild at the prayer of the aforesaid John Newbold by his attorney aforesaid is adjudged to give Special bail to the action aforesaid Thereupon Came hereinto Court a Certain Samuel Hopkins of Somerset County Gentleman in his proper person and undertook for the said Joarib Feild that if it should happen that Judgment in the plea af.d should be rendred for the same John Newbold against the af.d Joarib Field or that then he the said Joarib Field should be therein Convict that then he the same Joarib Field should pay and satisfie unto the said John Newbold the Judgment of the Court thereupon or render his body in Execution of such Judgment to the prison of the sheriffe of the County af.d in satisfaction thereof or that he the same Samuel Hopkins will do the same for him And hereupon the said Joarib Feild puts in his place William Arbuckle Gent attorney at Law against the aforesaid John Newbold of the aforesaid plea Whereupon at the request of the parties aforesaid day is to them now here given untill next Court to be held at dividing Creek in and for the County aforesaid the third Tuesday of march then next Following in the Same State as at present Saving to the parties aforesaid &c Att which day here Came againe the parties aforesaid by their attorneys aforesaid and hereupon the said John Newbold Complained of the aforesaid Joarib Feild in the plea aforesaid in form following Sommerset ss Joarib Feild late of Sommerset County Marriner was attached to answer unto John Newbold of a plea of trespass upon the Case &c And Whereupon the said John by George Douglas his Attorney Complains that whereas the said Joarib after the first day of may Anno Dom MDCCV to witt on the xij day of August Anno Dom MDCCXL at the County af.d did make his Certain note in writing Called a promissory and the said note with the proper name and hand writing of the said Joarib signed to the said John then and there did deliver by which note the said Joarib did promise to pay to the said John Newbold the sum of ten pounds four shillings and Eleven pence Current paper money of Maryland by means whereof and by force of the statute in that Case lately made and provided the said Joarib became Chargeable to pay to the said John the said sum in the af.d note mentioned according to the tenor of that note and so being thereof Chargeable afterwards to wit on the day and year last af.d at the County af.d on Consideration thereof promised to pay the sum af.d in the said note mentioned according to the tenor of that note Nevertheless the said Joarib his promise af.d in form af.d made not regarding but minding and fraudulently intending the said John in that part Craftily and Subtilly to deceive and defraud the said sum in the said note mentioned according to the to the tenor of the said note to the said John hath not paid or him for the same in any Sort hitherto Contented but that to doe altogether hath refused and still doth refuse altho' thereto afterwards to wit on the first day of September Anno Dom MDCCXL at the County af.d and often since that time by the said John required Whereupon the said John says he is damnifyed twenty pounds Curr.t money of Marlyland and thereof he brings Suit &c Pledg.s &c J: Doe R: Roe And |
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