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Court and Testamentary Business, 1649 50.131
Manners the 10th of November last now produced and forty p Liber B. accompt, and noe objection being made to the Con- Bill cancel'd trary It is Ordered that the Defdt the Admrx make payment of the Said three hundred Seventy and four pounds of Tobacco and Caske to the plt or his Attorney or assignes Out of the deced estate
Capt Jo: West Capt Robt Abell The Complts Suit being for 1000 l by Mr Cuth: ffenwick Attorn plt Tobo & Cask p Bill, And the Defdt David 0 Doughorty Defdt being arrested The Sherriffalleadged
he could not bring him to appear this Court by reason of Some lameness and Other hindrances, It is therefore Ordered that in Case the Defdt having notice hereof Shall not by himself or his Attorney appear and Answer his Suit the next Court, the Court will then proceed to give Judgment upon the Bill if there be Cause. Wm Johnson plt Upon the Mocon of Mr George Mee Tho Daynes by George Attorney for the Defdt It is Ordered that Mee his Attorney deft the hearing of this Cause be respited till
next Court The Same Court Continued p Adjournment 21 Januarij 1651
Present as the day before Janry 21th Mr Wm Ealtonhead plt The plt Sues for Eleaven hundred Sixty Henry Potter defdt and two pounds of Tobacco payable by bill ete Contraentred into by the Defdts and George Man
ners 5t Maij last the first Stricking of the Cropp, And the Defdt acknowledged the debt, but prayed that he might be relieved touching a Cow wch in pursuance of a Judgmt of this p. 262 Court of the 19th of January last he received of Mr Eltonhead as to be with Calf according to that Order as he alleadgeth which Cow as appears by the Oath of John Prince upon Record was not with Calf being opened for that purpose And prayed he might have another Cow and Calf in liew thereof, to which the now Corn plt made Answer, that he accepted of the Sd Cow with another in discharge of the Said Judgmt and that he was Bill Cancel'd able to make the Same appear by proofe, and Craveth time till next Court for that purpose, It is therefore Ordered, that the Sd now Defdt Potter Shall forth- with pay unto the Said now Complt Mr Eltonhead the Said Eleaven hundred Sixty two pounds of Tob due upon the Said bill, And that the Said Mr Eltonhead Shall have time to pro- duce his proofe touching the Said Cow in question till the next Court, And then the Court will proceed to give the sd Potter relief therein if there be Cause
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