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faithfull promise & assumpcon of him the said Charles made as afore-
said did take severall bills of severall persons in the name of the said
Charles, And did looke after & shipp on board Cap^t Webber twenty
six hogsheads of tobacco for the said Charles And did also weigh
nayle marke & receive Seventy flue hogsheads of tobacco for him
the said Charles, & did board & accomodate att his house the said
Charles Gosfright & his man & severall other persons retayners to
the said Charles, & was assistant to him in setling his accompts &
attending on him in his last sicknes, & severall other things for him
did doe a pticuler whereof is here in Court produced for which he
saith he doth deserve to have the Sume of tenn thousand two hundred
twenty eight pounds of tobacco Yet the said Charles his said promise
not reguarding, though often thereunto required in his life tyme
the said Charles the said Michael hath not in any manner contented
& paid for the same, nor the said Richard & George since the death
of the said Charles to whom Execution of the testam^t & all & singuler

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the Goods & Chattels rights & creditts which were of the said Charles
att the tyme of his death since his death have bin comitted but him in
any wise to content & pay for the same hitherto have & still doe deny &
refuse, whereupon the said Michael saith he is damnified & hath losse
to the Value of ffifteene thousand pounds of tobacco & thereupon he
brings his suite.
And the said Richard & George by Christopher Rousby their At-
torney come & defend the force & injury when &c and pray liberty
to imparle hereunto untill next Provinciall Court & itt is granted
unto them, the same day is given to the plaintiffe likewise
Now here att this day to witt the thirteenth day of Oct^r in the
fourth yeare of the Dominion of the right Hon^ble Charles Lord

Baltemore &C Annoq 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 did not assume &
promise in his life tyme in manner & forme as the plaintiffe hath
above declared And of this they putt themselves upon the Countrey
And the plaintiffe likewise. Therefore itt is comanded the Sheriffe
of S^t Maryes County that he cause to come here twelve &c by whom
&c and who neither &c to recognize &c because as well &c On which
said thirteenth day of October in the yeare aforesaid came the said
parties by their Attorneys aforesaid And the jurors impannelled
being called likewise came to witt Edward Inglish, W^m Collins, John
Haslewood, Jacob Loton, Cornelius Comegijs, Richard Baily, W^m
Cole, John Askin, Samuell Goosey, Symon Sprackling, Emanuel
Ratcliffe & Edward Dorsey who being Elected tryed & sworne to say
the truth in the p^rmisses upon their Oaths doe say that the said
Charles Gosfright in his life tyme did assume & promise in man-
ner & forme as the said plaintiffe hath above declared And they
assesse the damage of the said plaintiffe to tenn Thousand two

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