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        aforesaid twelve good & legall men of his bailywick by whom &c Liber N N
        who neither &c to try the issue joyned &c And the same day to witt
        the Seventeenth day of Octobr aforesaid came the said Sheriffe &
        returnes to the Court here that he hath Sumoned &c by whom &c as
        the writt requires. Whereupon the Jurors appearing & being duely
        sworne the wittnesses subpenaed for the plaintiffe were called whose
        depositions are as followeth Vizt Thomas Taillor upon his Oath
        saith That after judgemt obtained agt Thomas Knighton Execucön
        was issued agt the said Knighton for the sume of two thousand foure
        hundred pds of tobacco, which Execucön yor depont went with the
        Sheriffe to Levy & told the said Knighton that he came to Levy the
        Execucon upon his tobacco The said Knighton told the Sheriffe he
        had tobacco & went to the tobacco house with the Sheriffe, & shewed
        the tobacco to the Sheriffe, & delivered part of itt to the Sheriffe,
        which the Sheriffe seized for yor Depont & the Sheriffe sett the broad
        arrow upon the tobacco house where there was five roomes above
        joyce & the joyce & also a bulk which the said Knighton promised
        to stripp for the Sheriffe & pay to yoT Depont And also that Cot Chew
        & Robert Peca came after judgemt & tooke the tobacco as Cot Chew
        & Tho: Knighton did both say. Tho: Taillor drawn by himself e
            Thomas Knighton aged about forty one yeares being sworne
            & Examined in Court saith
          That about ffebruary last Robert Peca came to this Deponts tobacco
        house with Cot Chew, & seized the tobacco in this Deponts tobacco
        house, and likewise the tobacco in the loft (both for rent) And after
        wards the Sheriffe & Cot Taillor came & marked the tobacco house
        with the broad arrow, & afterwards went into the house, & there was
        a bulk of tobacco which they asked the Depont what itt was, & this
        Depont told them itt was tobacco, & they replyed they could not be
        certaine of that except he this Depont would shew itt & lett them see
        itt; whereupon he this Depont opened the same & gave out a plant
        Afterwards came this Deponts Landlord Peca & brought hands with
        him & stripped itt out And after he had stripped & packed itt he
        marked itt, & after the markeing he went away & sent Cot Chews
        Sonn & his man to sett the marke of the said Col Chew upon the
        said tobacco, & the Sheriffe came afterwards & sett the broad arrow
        upon the hogsheads, And when itt was a season he this Deponts
        Landlord & his Servants came & stripped the remainder & packed itt
        in hogsheads, & sent Mr Chews Sonn & he marked the same also
        And then Col Chew sent Seamen with his Sonn & fetched itt away,
        And this Depont farther Saith not.
          After full heareing of the Allegacons & pleadings in & upon the p.
        severall testimonyes of the said Deponts on both sides, the said testi
        monies being first read in the audience of the Court & likewise of
        the jury impannelled as aforesaid, the said jury was dismissed the
        Court to consult of their verdict