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32 Provincial Court Proceedings, 1675. Liber N N said Thomas Taylor planter in Dorchester County an assault did make and him did beate wound and evill handle and him imprisoned and so imprisoned a long time deteined and other enormities to him did to the damage of him the said Thomas Taylor planter and against the peace &c. And whereupon the Said Thomas Taylor planter by Kenelm Cheseldyn his Attorny complaineth that whereas the said Thomas Taylor Gent the fiftenth day of ffebruary in the year of Our Lord One thousand Six hundred Seventy three and in the two & fortith yeare of the Dominion of Caecilius &c in Dorchester County afore- said with force and armes to wit with swords Staves & Knives on him the said Thomas Taylor planter did make an assault and him did beate wound & evil handle and him So in prison against the Law a long time that is to say by the Space of One whole day detained without any reasonable cause to the damage of the said Thomas Taylor planter five thousand pounds of tobacco & against the peace &c & thereupon he bringeth his Suite. And the Said Thomas Taylor Gent by Robert Carvile his Attorney Cometh & defendeth the force and injury when &c and prayeth liberty to imparle here untill next Court the same day is given to both parties. Now here at this day Came the plaintiff and defendant by their Attornyes aforesaid to wit the five and twentith day of Novem- ber in the 44th yeare of the Dominion of Caecilius &c & the Said Thomas Taylor Gent Saith that he is in nowise guilty of the trespas p. 21 of assault battery and imprisonment by the Said Thomas Taylor planter above against him and complained off and of this he putts himself upon the Country and the plaintiff likewise Therefore it is Comanded the Sheriff that he cause to come here twelve &c After- wards to wit the Six & twentith day of November in the yeare afore- said Came aswell the plaintiff & defendant by their Attornyes afore- said and the jurors of that jury Came likewise to wit Henry Tripp James Nuthall Edward Roe Richard Bayley George Marshall Walter Hall David Holt Daniel Clocker Wm King Joseph Edloe Thomas Doxey and Ralph Blackhall who being impannelled Summoned & Sworne to Say the truth in the premisses upon their Oathes doe say They find for the plaintiff But because it appeareth not to the Court here what damages the plaintiff hath susteined by occasion of the trespas assault battery & imprisonmnt aforesaid it is comanded the jurors aforesaid that they diligently enquire thereof which said Jurors upon their Oathes doe Say Wee the jurors doe find for the plaintiff two thousand pounds of tobacco damages. Therefore it is Considered by the Court here that the said Thomas Taylor planter recover against the said Thomas Taylor Gent aswell the summe of two thou- sand pounds of tobacco for his damages occasioned by the trespas assault battery and imprisonmt aforesaid as also the sume of two thousand five hundred fifty Six pounds of tobacco costs of Suite. |
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