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August Court Anno Domini 1747
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Whereupon It was Commanded the sheriff that of the Goods Chattles & Credits of the aforesaid Edward Murphy in his Bailywick being he should attach as well the sum of one pound seventeen shillings and five pence sterling and Eighteen Pounds Nineteen Shillings and Two pence Currency Damages as Seven Hundred Pounds of Tobacco for Costs that had accrued and further should accrue in Prosecution of the Premises and when the same he had attached or any Part thereof that he should have it before the Justices of the Lord Proprietary of his Next County Court to be holden at Charles Town on the Second Tuesday in August Next then and there to be Condemned according to Law to and for the use of the said Askins Executors unless the said Edward Murphy should Come then and there by himself or Lawfull Attorney and answer unto the said Askins Executors of a plea of Trespass upon the Case and that by Good and Lawfull men of his Bailywick he should make known to the Person or Persons in whose hands he should Make the same Attachment that he she or they be and appear before the Justices of the said Lord Proprietary at the Place and TIme afs.d to shew Cause if any he she or they have why the sum in their or any of their hands attached should not be Condemned according to Law and the said Askins Executors have thereof Execution if &C.a and how he should Execute that Writt that he should make known to the Justices aforesaid at the Time & Place aforesaid and that he should have then and there that Writt and the Names of those before whom he should make the same known &Ca And now here at this day to wit the Second Tuesday in August afs.d Comes the said Askins Executors by Jeremiah Chase their attorney and offers themselves against the said Edward In the Plea and the Sheriff afs.d Returns to the Court here the Writt afs.d thus Indorsed Vizt Charles County ss.t I hereby Certifie to the Worshipfull the Justices within mentioned that by Virtue of the within Writt to me Directed on the Third day of August 1747 I attached In the (hands) |
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