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Provincial Court Proceedings, 1679. 11
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Mar sham & George Lingham Exrs as aforesaid take nothing by their
writt, but be in mercy for their false claime thereupon prosecuted
And that the said Michael Taney goe thereof without day &c
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Liber W. C.
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Gosfrights Exrs
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Michael Taney
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Michael Taney late of Calvert County Innholder
was Attached to Answer unto Richard Marsham &
George Lingham Exrs of the last Will & testamt of
Charles Charles Gosfright deceased in a plea of
trespas upon the ca[se]
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p. 11
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And whereupon the said Richard & George b[y] Christopher
Rousby their Attorney complaine, that whereas the said Michael
Taney att severall dayes & tymes & from the sixth day of November
One thousand six hundred seventy seven untill the Eighth day of
July One thousand six hundred seventy Eight, att the special instance
and request of him the said Michael bought had & received of him
the said Charles divers Goods & Mrchandizes, a particuler of the
values or first costs whereof is here in Court produced amounting
to the Sume of Ninety two pounds Eighteene shillings & Seven
pence. And did also the seventeenth day of August One thousand
six hundred Seventy seven accept of a certaine bill or note drawne
upon him the said Michael by Wm Dare Mrchant to pay to him the
said Charles the Sume of two pounds tenn shillings which together
in the whole with the said ninety two pounds Eighteene shillings
& seven pence doe amount to the Sume of Ninety five pounds Eight
shillings & Seven pence stert. In consideracon whereof he the said
Michael did assume upon himselfe & to the said Charles did faith-
fully promise that he the said Michael when thereunto required
would well & truely content & pay unto the said Charles such a quan-
tity or Sume of tobacco as he the said Charles should reasonably
deserve to have for the Goods & money before menconed And the
said Richard & George say, that he the said Charles did well and
reasonably deserve for the prmisses the Sume or quantity of twenty
two thousand nine hundred & three pounds And although the said
Michael did pay & satisfie unto him the said Charles in his life tyme
divers Sumes or quantityes of tobacco amounting together to twenty
one thousand one hundred fifty two pounds of tobacco (a particuler
whereof is here in Court produced) in part of the said twenty two
thousand nine hundred & three pounds of tobacco Yet as to One
thousand seven hundred fifty one pounds of tobacco residue of the
said twenty two thousand nine hundred & three pounds of tobacco
he the said Michael his promise & assumpcon aforesaid in that
behalfe little reguarding but plotting & fradulently contriveing him
the said Charles in his life tyme & after his decease them the said
Richard & George Exrs of the last Will & testamt of him the said
Charles of the same One thousand Seven hundred fifty & one pounds
of tobacco wholy to defraud & deceive the same One thousand Seven
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