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any of their Creditors, their Executors, Administrators, or Assigns,
to take out a new Execution, or new Executions, against the Lands.
Tenements, Hereditaments, Goods, or Chatties, of the said Richard
Smith, William Nimmo, George Clagett, William Burston, James
Mason, John Brooks, Benjamin Hilliard, William Robertson, Rich-
ard Roper, John Norwood, Richard Sympson, Thomas Taylor, Ed
ward Hyatt, Robert Lynch, Richard Barrow, Thomas Brown, John
Clark, William Austin, Robert Cardiff, Thomas Vernall and Daniel
Hall, or any of them, (except as before excepted) for the Satisfaction
or his or their Debt, or Debts, in such Sort, Manner, and Form, as
he, or they might have done, if the said Richard Smith, William
Nimmo, George Clagett, William Burston, James Mason, John
Brooks, Benjamin Hilliard, William Robertson, Richard Roper, John
Norwood, Richard Sympson, Thomas Taylor, Edward Hyatt, Rob-
ert Lynch, Richard Barrow, Thomas Brown, John Clark, William
Austin, Robert Cardiff, Thomas Vernall, and Daniel Hall, or any of
them, had not been taken in Execution, or discharged by Virtue of
this Act.
And Be It Enacted, by the Authority aforesaid. That if any Action
of Escape be brought against any Sheriff, or any Suit or Action be
brought against any Justice or Justices, for performing their Office
in Pursuance of this Act, he or they, may plead the General Issue, and
give this Act, and the special Matter in Evidence; if the Plaintiff be
nonsuit, or discontinue his or her Action, or Verdict passed against
such Plaintiff, or Judgment upon Demurrer, the Defendant shall have
and recover double Cost.
Provided Also, That nothing in this Act shall extend, or be con-
strued to extend, to bar any Creditor, or Creditors, of the before
mentioned Prisoners, or any of them, from having or maintaining
any Action of Escape against any Sheriff who hath permitted any
Escape before the making of this Act.
Provided Nevertheless, That in Case the said Richard Smith, Wil-
liam Nimmo, George Clagett, William Burston, James Mason, John
Brooks, Benjamin Hilliard, William Robertson, Richard Roper,
John Norwood, Richard Sympson, Thomas Taylor, Edward Hyatt,
Robert Lynch, Richard Barrow, Thomas Brown, John Clark, Wil-
liam Austin, Robert Cardiff, Thomas Vernall, and Daniel Hall, or
any of them, shall, at any Time after the making such their Oath
or Oaths, or taking such Affirmation as aforesaid, be convict of wil-
ful and corrupt Perjury thereupon, or of a wilful Breach, or Non-
compliance with the Tenour of such Oath or Affirmation as aforesaid,
that then the said Richard Smith, William Nimmo, George Clagett,
William Burston. James Mason, John Brooks, Benjamin Hilliard,
William Robertson, Richard Roper, John Norwood, Richard Symp-
son, Thomas Taylor, Edward Hyatt, Robert Lynch, Richard Bar-
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