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       ceased by Robert Ridgely their Attorney & exhibite their certaine Liber N N
       bill against John Blomfeild gentt Clerke of the Provinciall Court
       aforesaid of a plea of trespas upon the case
         And whereupon the said John & Rebeccah by the said Robert
       Ridgely their Attorney complaine, that whereas the said John Blom
       feud between the third day of May one thousand six hundred seventy
       five & the thirtieth day of August next following bought had &
       received of the said Tho: Dent in his life tyme divers goods &
       Mrchandizes amounting in the whole to the sume of three thousand
       seven hundred & twelve pounds of tobacco a particular whereof is
       here in Court produced In consideracon whereof the said John did
       assume upon himselfe & to the said Thomas Dent in his life tyme
       did faithfully promise, that he the said John the said sume of three
       thousand seven hundred & twelve pounds of tobacco when thereunto
       Required would well & truely content & pay Yet the aforesaid John p. 434
       Blomfeild his promise & assumpcon so as aforesaid made not re
       guarding but deviseing & fraudulently intending him the said Tho:
       Dent of the said three thousand seven hundred & twelve pounds of
       tobacco to deceive & defraud, the same to him the said Thomas in
       his life tyme, nor to the said Rebeccah to whom Execucon of the
       testamt of the said Thomas since his death hath bin comitted while
       she was sole, nor to the said John & Rebeccah since Espousalls be
       tween them celebrated have not paid, but the same to pay hath
       denyed though often thereunto required, & to pay the same as yet
       doth deny, to the damage of the said John & Rebeccah, five thousand
       pounds of tobacco, & thereupon they produce their suite And the
       said John & Rebeccah bring here into Court the letters testamentory
       of the said Thomas, to shew to the Court that of the testament of
       the said Thomas the said Rebeccah is Exx & of the Estate of the said
       Thomas they have Adcon.
         And the said John Blomfeild by Robert Carvile his Attorney com
       eth & defendeth the force & injury when &c and prayeth liberty of
       speakeing hereunto untill next Court & itt is granted him, the same
       day is given to the said plaintiffes also
         Now here att this day to witt the two & twentieth day of ffebry
       in the third yeare of the Dominion of Charles &c Annocp Doni 1677
       came the partyes aforesaid And the said John Blomfeild saith, that
       as to two thousand seven hundred & twelve pounds of tobacco part
       of the said sume of three thousand seven hundred & twelve pounds of
       tobacco he is content that Judgemt passe against him Whereupon itt
       is granted by the Court here that the said John Addison & Rebeccah
       his wife recover against the said John Blomfeild the sume of two
       thousand seven hundred & twelve pounds of tobacco occasioned by
       the trespasse aforesaid As also the sume of One hundred & eight
       pounds of tobacco costs of suite