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        of the said Henry and Richard here in Court produced whose date Liber N N
        is the day and yeare aforesaid did acknowledge themselves to be
        bound & firmly obliged unto the said Christopher then High Sheriff
        of Calvert County in the full and just quantity of five thousand
        pounds of tobacco to be paid to the Said Christopher or to his cer-
        tame Attorny executors admrs or assignes To which payment well
        & truly to be made they bound themselves and either of them by
        himselfe joyntly and Severally for the whole and in the whole and
        the heirs executors & admrs of them & either of them firmly by those
        prsents. Notwithstanding which the Said Richard and Henry the
        Said Summe of five thousand pounds of tobacco though often de-
        manded according to the tenor of the said bill to the said Christopher
        hath not paid or Satisfied but the same to pay they and either of
        them have refused and Still doe deny and refuse to the damage of
        the said Christopher ten thousand pounds of tobacco & thereupon he
        bringeth his suite.
          And the said Richard Bayley in his proper person cometh and
        defendeth the force & injury when &c prayeth heareing of the said
        bill Obligatory and it is read unto him he also prayeth heareing of
        the Condition of the said writeing Obligatory and it is read unto
        him in these words The Condition of this Obligation is such That
        whereas John Hollins of Calvert County planter is by virtue of a
        writ of execution issued Out of the County Court of Calvert County
        aforesaid taken into Custody of him the said Christopher Rousby
        Sheriff of the County aforesaid to the end that he the said Sheriff
        may have the body of him the said John Hollins before the Cömis-
        sioners of the County Court aforesaid at the Court to be held for
        the said County the third tuesday in January instant to satisfie unto
        Martin Wakely aswell the summe of One thousand Six hundred
        Seventy and Six pounds of tobacco which was adjudged to him for
        his damages in a certaine Suite commenced by the said Martin
        Wakely against the said John Hollins as also the summe of Seven
        hundred ninty One pounds of tobacco for his costs & charges ex-
        pended in the said Suite Now if the Said John Hollins doe without
        faile personally appeare at the County Court aforesaid and then &
        there Surrender himself e peaceably into the hands & custody of him
        the said Christopher or his Deputy as a true prisoner and So con-
        tinue untill he shall be legally discharged And also if the Said John
        Hollins shall truly Satisfie and pay all such ffees as are or shall be
        become due unto him the said Christopher for touching or concern-
        ing the aforesaid execution and shall in every matter and thing well
        and truly save and Keepe harmlesse the Said Christopher his execu-
        tors & admrs of and from all damage and molestation that shall or
        may arise or happen for or by reason or concerning the aforesaid
        execution then this bond to be void or else to stand and remaine in
        full force & vertue. Which being read and heard the Said Richard