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     entered his suit humbly Crauing order of Court for his sayd debt with Liber B
     Cost and Charge of Suit:

       Whearupon the defendant Craued an abaetment of the write by
     Reason that when the debt was incured the sayd heugh Lee beeing ded
     and thear for not dew from her as the Plt hath declared as the Relict of
     heugh Lee and further the defendant Requested that the Pit might
     Produce any such specialty for the sayd debt as bee aileaged in his
     declaration and bee then woold Confes a iudgment
       Whearupon the sayd Esq Caluert alleaged that the Pit had at his
     going horn for England the last yeare giuen all his bills to bee Re-
     corded to the Cike of the Prouinciall Records and that now at his
     the sayd Caluerts Coming upe hee had taken a Coppy thearof and in
     his iourney had Lost the same and thear for now most humbly Craueth
     a iury and withall that Mr Humphry Warren of Poynton might bee
     sworne to deliuer the truth of his knowledg in this buisnes to the
     Jury which was granted and the sayd Warren sworne in open Court
     to deliuer the truth of his knowledg in this buisnes to the iury which
     hee to them did as thay affirmed:

       The Jury beeing impannelled thear names are as followeth:
       Mr humphery Warren John Cage francis Wine Thomas Baker [p. 400]
     Richard dod John Duglas ignatius Causeene George harris Jhon Lam-
     bert Thomas Allonson Nicholaus Emerson Thomas Allcoke
       Who beeing all Present the Judge of the Court Mr henry Addames
     demanded of them who shoold bee thear forman thay Choas Mr
     Humphery Warren the Marchant for thear foarman
       Whearupon that sayd Mr Henry Addames, in open Court Upon
     the holy Euangelist Swared them to bring in thear trew Verdit, in a
     differance depending between William hollingesworth Plt: and Wil-
     liam Price and Hanna his wife as the relict of hewgh Lee deceased
     defendants
       Whearupon the whole buisnes depending was unto the forman of
     the sayd Jury Deliuered and hee and thay Retiring and tacking the
     aforsayd buisnes into thear serious Cogitations afterwards Presented
     themselues befor the Court and each man beeing by his Respectiue
     name Called the aforsayd Mr henry Addames demanded of them
     whether thay wear agreed in thear verdit or no and thay all answering
     that thay wear hee againe demanded of them who shoold deliuer in
     thear verdit and thay againe unanimously Replyed thear foarman
     Whearupon the sayd Mr Addames demanded thear verdit of the
     forman Who then Required according unto the Custom of the Pro-
     uinciall Court an order of Court against him that was Cast for thirty
     pounds of tobacco A man Whearupon it is ordered that the Party
     Cast shall allow unto the Jury three hundered and sixty pounds of
     tobacco and Cask
       Whearupon the forman deliuered in thear verdit as followeth in
     wrighting: which is as followeth