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And whereupon the said Michael by Charles Boteler his Attorney
complaineth, that whereas the said Charles Gosfright in his life tyme
(that is to say) upon the third day of Novemb^r in the yeare of our
Lord God One thousand Six hundred Seventy & seven & att severall
dayes and tymes since, the said Michael Taney being an Innholder
att Battle Creeke in Calvert County, in consideracon of severall
liquors & dyetts as well by the hands of him the said Charles Gos-
fright as by the hands of divers other persons att the special instance

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& request of him the said Charles bought Had & received, As also in
consideracon of severall parcells of tobacco att the request & for the
use & acc^t of the said Charles paid unto divers persons, a particuler
of all which is here in Court produced, amounting in the whole to
the Sume of foure thousand ninety & foure pounds of tobacco, the
said Charles did assume upon himselfe & to the said Michael did
faithfully promise, that he the said Charles Gosfright when there-
unto required the said Sume of foure thousand ninety foure pounds
of tobacco unto the said Michael would well and truely pay & satisfie
And the said Michael in fact saith, that trusting to the faithfull
promise & assumpcon of him the said Charles made as aforesaid,
did sell & deliver unto him the said Charles & divers other persons
att his request severall liquors & dyetts, & did pay for him severall
sumes of tobacco unto severall persons amounting in the whole to
the Sume of foure thousand ninety foure pounds of tobacco Yet
the said Charles Gosfright his said promise & assumpcon not reguard-
ing, but plotting & fraudulently intending him the said Michael of
the said foure thousand ninety foure pounds of tobacco to deceive,
the said Charles in his life tyme the said four thousand ninety foure
pounds of tobacco though often thereunto required hath not paid
nor satisfied, nor the said Richard & George to whom Execution of
the testam^t & all & singuler the Goods & Chattles rights & creditts
which were of the said Charles att the tyme of his death since his
death have bin comitted, but the same to him to pay haue hitherto
denyed & still doe deny whereupon the said Michael saith he is damni-
fied and hath losse to the Value of six thousand pounds of tobacco &
thereupon he brings his suite
And the said Richard & George by Christopher Rousby their
Attorney come & defend the force & injury when &c & pray liberty
to imparle hereunto untill next Provinc^ll Court & itt is granted unto
them The same day is given to the plaintiffe also
Now here att this day to witt the thirteenth day of Octob^r in the
fourth yeare of the Dominion of the right Hon^ble Charles Lord Bal-
temore &c Annooq Doni 1679 came the said parties by their Attorneys
aforesaid And the said Richard & George by their said Attorney say,
that the said Charles Gosfright in his life tyme did not assume &
promise in manner & form as the said plaintiffe hath above declared
And of this they putt themselves upon the Countrey And the plain-

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