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U.H.J.
Liber No. 35
October 8
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the said Writing, and this the said Attorney General is ready to
verify &c. and therefore prays Judgment for the Debt aforesaid
together with the damage sustained by Occasion of the detention
of that Debt to the said Lord Proprietary to be adjudged &c.
And the aforesaid Edward protesting that the Replication afore-
said and the Matter therein contained are altogether insufficient in
Law to which he has no Need, nor by the Law of the Land is he in
any manner held to answer for Plea by way of Rejoinder, never-
theless he saith that before the Impetration of the original Writ in
this Cause to wit the tenth day of May in the year of our Lord
1741. at the County aforesaid he the said Edward did pay unto the
Commissioners or Trustees aforesaid the said Sums of £35..9..8..
Current Mony of Maryland and £14.. 5...0.. like Mony, and of this
he putts himself upon the Country and the said Henry Darnall Es-
quire his Lordship's Attorney General who &c: also.
Whereupon for trying the Issue aforesaid Command is given to
the Sheriff of Ann Arundell County that he immediately cause to
come here twelve good and lawful Men of his Bailiwick, by whom
&c. who neither &c. to recognizance &c. because as well &c. of
which said Precept the said Sheriff to wit, John Gassaway Esquire
makes Return that he has here ready twelve &c. as by his said
Precept he was commanded; to wit, Lyde Goodwin, John Merriken,
John Bowie John Burgess, John Watkins, Basil Dorsey, William
Ijams, John Browne, William Elbert, Samuel Chambers, David
Evans, and Edward Gather, who being duly elected and sworn to
say the Truth in the Premisses upon their Oaths do say, that the
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said Edward did pay unto the Commissioners, or Trustees afore-
said, the said Sums of £35...9.. 8 Current Mony of Maryland, and
£14.. 5..0.. like Money in manner & form as the aforesaid Edward
Trippe, above by pleading hath alledged and thereupon Henry
Darnall Esquire Attorney General of the said Lord Proprietary
who &c. prays that the Verdict aforesaid may be set aside for that
Lyde Goodwin one of the Jurors who found the said Verdict was
not a Freeholder, or qualified by Law to serve as a Juror and that a
new Trial for this Cause may be awarded.
Whereupon and for that the Court here are not advised of render-
ing their Judgment of and upon the Verdict and Premises aforesaid,
Day therefore is given as well to the said Henry Darnall Esquire
his Lordship's Attorny General who &c. as to the said Edward
Trippe to hear thereof their Judgment until next Court for that
the said Court as yet are not &c.
At which said next Court to wit the seventeenth day of October
Anno Domini 1749. comes again as well the said Henry Darnall
Esquire his Lordship's Attorney General who &c. as the said Edward
Trippe by his Attorney aforesaid, whereupon all and singular the
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