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236 Provincial Court Proceedings, 1676. Liber N N said of him the said Robert whereupon the Said Robert remaineth against the Said Garret as administrator as aforesaid thereupon un- defended Therefore it is granted by the Court here that the said Robert Ridgely recover of the estate of the said Wm Baker aswell the Summe of foure hundred pounds of tobacco the debt aforesaid as also the Sume of five hundred thirty six pounds of tobacco costs of Suite when assetts come to the hands and possession of the Said administrator. Robert Ridgely Arthur Carleton administrator of all and agt singular the Goods and Chattells of Thomas Arthur Carleton admr Carleton deceased was Suthoned to answer Thomas Carleton unto Robert Ridgely One of the Attornys of the Provinciall Court according to the libertyes and priviledges &c allowed of a plea that he render unto him the full and just summe of twenty & foure pounds of lawfull mony of England which from him he unjustly deteineth And whereupon the Said Robert in his proper person Saith that whereas the said Thomas Carleton in his life time to witt the sixtenth day of October 1674 by his certaine writeing Obligatory Sealed with the seale of him the said Thomas & here in Court produced whose date is the day and yeare aforesaid did acknowledge himself e to be holden and firmly bound unto the Said Robert in the full and just summe of twenty and foure pounds of lawfull mony of England, to be paid to the said Robert or to his certaine Attorny his heirs executors or assignes To the which payment well and truly to be made he bound himselfe his heirs executors and administrators firmly by those presents Yet the aforesaid Thomas in his life time nor the said Arthur since his death (to whom administration of all and singular the goods Chattells and Creditts of the said Thomas since his death was committed). the said twenty and foure pounds of lawfull mony of England to him the said Robert according to the tenor of the said writeing Obligatory hath not paid though often thereunto required but the same to pay hath & Still doth deny where- upon the Said Robert saith he is dampnified and hath lost to the value of five and twenty pounds Sterling And thereupon he bringeth his Suite. And the said Arthur by Mathew Warde his Attorny cometh and defendeth the force and injury when &c and prayeth heareing of the writeing obligatory and it is read unto him he prayeth also the heareing of the Condition of the said writeing Obligatory and it is read unto him in these words vizt Whereas the abovebounden Thomas Carleton this day hath drawne three bills of exchange all of One tenor and date upon Thomas Griffith of London mercht payable at thirty dayes sight to Robert Ridgely or Order it being f or p. 150 value recd Now the Condition of this Obligation is Such if the said |
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