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U.H.J.
Liber No. 35
October 8
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Cask which to him he owes and unjustly detains, &c. and where-
upon Henry Darnall Esq.r Attorny General of the said Lord Pro-
prietary who for the said Lord Proprietary in this Behalf followeth,
saith, that whereas the said Edward Trippe the twelfth Day of
July 1740. at Dorchester County aforesaid by his certain Writing
obligatory acknowledged himself to be held and firmly bound unto
the said Lord Proprietary, in the aforesaid full sum and just Quan-
tity of two hundred thousand pounds of good, sound, merchantable
leaf Tobacco and Cask to be paid unto the said Lord Proprietary when
afterwards he should be thereunto required, nevertheless the afore-
said Edward Trippe although often thereunto required, the said
Sum of two hundred thousand Pounds of good sound merchantable
Leaf Tobacco and Cask, or any part thereof to the said Lord Pro-
prietary, hath not rendred but the same to the said Lord Proprietary
to render hath hitherto refused, and still doth refuse to the Damage
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of the said Lord Proprietary five hundred Pounds Current Mony of
Maryland, and thereupon he brings suit, and so forth, and the said
Attorney General of the said Lord Proprietary, brings here into
Court the Writing Obligatory aforesaid sealed with the Seal of the
said Edward Trippe which the Debt aforesaid in Form aforesaid
witnesseth whose date is the Day and Year aforesaid.
H. Darnall
And the aforesaid Edward Trippe by Charles Goldsborough his
Attorney comes and defends the force and Inquiry when &c. and
prays a Hearing of the Writing obligatory aforesaid, and it is read
to him, he prays also a hearing of the Condition of the same Writ-
ing Obligatory, and he hath it in these Words (viz.t) The Condi-
tion of the above Obligation is such that if the above bounden
Edward Trippe do well and truly serve his Lordship the Right
honourable the Lord Proprietary of the aforesaid Province his Heirs
and Successors in the Office of high Sheriff of the County of Dor-
chester within the Province aforesaid, and in all Things well and
faithfully execute the same Office, and also shall render unto his
said Lordship and others his Officers a true, faithful, and perfect
Account of all and singular his said Lordship's Rights, and Dues,
and to his Officers a true and just Account of their Fees that he shall
or may be entrusted with by his said Lordships Governour and
other his Officers within this Province to receive and collect and
his Account to his said Lordship his Heirs and successors and to
his and their Governor here for the time being for the Fines, and
Forfeitures and other Dues belonging to his said Lordship's Gov-
nor, as also his Account of all Fees due, or Sums of Money and
Tobacco due to any of the good People within this Province for any
Sum or Sums of Mony and Tobacco, wherewith the said Sheriff
shall be entrusted during the time of his Sheriffalty for this present,
or to such of them as shall receive the same shall pass & render by the
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