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         And the said Richard by Robert Carvile his Attorney cometh Liber N N
       & defendeth the force and injury when &c and Saith he doth not
       deteine the aforesaid goods from the said John nor any part thereof
       as the said John hath above declared against him and upon this he
       puffs himselfe upon the Country and the deft also.

       Richard Ridgell John Warwick late of st Maries County was at-
           agt tached to answer unto Richard Ridgell of a plea of
       John Warwick J trespas upon the case.
                    And whereupon the said Richard by Robert Car-
       vile his Attorny complaineth that whereas the said John upon or
       about the first day of September in the yeare of Our Lord 1673 then
       being sick and weake and labouring under a grevious noysome
       distemper came to the house of the said Richard and desired that he
       might have his lodgeing dyet and other necessary accomodations at
       his the Said Richards house and that he would permit and Suffer
       his the Said Richards wife to be his nurse and tend him in his Sick-
       nesse and to assest him in the dresseing and cureing of the severall
       ulcerated wounds he then had runing upon him and thereupon the
       said Richard with the consent of Hannah his wife cothiserateing his
       Condition did upon or about the Said first day of September afore-
       said take in harbour and entertaine the said John into his house, and
       in consideration thereof the said John did assume upon himself and
       to the said Richard did faithfully promise that he the said John
       would well and truly Satisfie and pay unto the said Richard for his
       lodgeing diet and other necessary accomodations and for the paines
       and care his wife should take in the lookeing after & tending him in
       his Sicknesse and for the dressing his Sores as aforesaid what they
       Should reasonably deserve & require when they shall be thereunto
       desired And the Said Richard in fact saith that he did entertaine the
       Said John from about the Said first day of September aforesaid till
       about the twelfth day of December following being in all three
       monthes and fourteen dayes for which he saith he doth reasonably
       deserve after the rate of One hundred and fifty pounds of tobacco
       p month which comes to five hundred twenty five pounds of tobacco
       and that dureing that time the said Hannah the wife of the Said
       Richard did dresse Severall ulcerated wounds which the said John
       had in his elbowes for which and for Salve and linnen she might
       well deserve foure hundred pounds of tobacco & she did likewise
       dureing the time aforesaid dresse Severall other ulcerated wounds
       the said John had in his thighes and other parts of his body besides
       his elbowes for which also and for Salve and linnen she doth well
       deserve five hundred pounds of tobacco & dureing the said Johns
       time of his Sicknesse the Said Richard did accothodate him with two
       bottles of wine of this Country grape for which he deserves twenty
       pounds of tobacco & for two bottles of brandy lent him in his Sick-