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pounds Sterl. and for the more speedy recovery of the same ffoure
hundred pounds Sterl The said John Machen by George Parker
his Attorney The sixth day of December in the third yeare of his
Lopps Dominion, and in the yeare of our Lord god 1677 Then and
Continually afterwards had psecuted out of his Lo^pps Provinciall

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Court of this Province a certaine Writt of Capias of his said Lo^pp
Directed to the then sheriffe of Charles County by w^ch Itt was
Comanded to the Said then sheriffe That hee should take the afore-
said Jn^o Sanders if hee should bee found in his Baliwick and him
safe Keepe soe that hee might have his body before his Lopps Jus-
tices of the Provinciall Court to bee held att the Citty of st Maryes
the Twentyeth day of ffebruary then next to Answere unto John
Machen of a plea that hee Render unto him the sume of foure
hundred pounds of Currant and Law full money of England and
that hee Should have here then that Writt, To the Intent that the
said John Machen in the said Provinciall Court of his Lopp might
Declare prosecute and Recover against the said John Sanders the
debt of foure hundred pounds Sterling money aforesaid W^ch said
Writt of Capias the said John Machen by George Parker his At-
torney Afterwards & before the Returne of the said Writt of Capias
that is to say the Eighth day of January 1677 aforesaid in the
County of Charles County aforesaid unto the said William Chandler
then being sheriffe of the said County delivered in forme of Lawe
to bee Executed, By Reason of w^ch said Writt of Capias, The said
William Chandler then being Sheriffe of the aforesaid County of
Charles County Afterwards to Witt the first day of ffebruary in the
said third yeare of his Lo^pps Dominion &c Att Portobacco within
the County aforesaid The said John Sanders for the Cause aforesaid
Did take and Arrest and the said John Sanders for the Cause afore-
said in fforme aforesaid hee the said William Chandler then being
sheriffe of Charles County aforesaid Afterwards to Witt The
twelfth day of ffebruary 1677 before his Lo^pps Justices of his Pro-
vinciall Court aforesaid att the Citty of st Maryes afores^d according
to the Teno^r of the said Writt of Capias then and there had, W^ch
said Justices of the Provinciall Court aforesaid afterwards to witt
the fourteenth day of the same moneth of ffebruary in the third
yeare of his Lo^pps Dominion. By speciall Order of the said Court,
the said John Sanders Did Remand and Comitt to the Custody of
the said William Chandler, Then sheriffe of Charles County afore-
said To bee by him the said William in safe Custody Kept untill hee
had given Special bayle to Answere the aforesaid Accon of the said
John Machen for the ffoure hundred pounds sterling aforesaid, By
Vertue of w^ch said Order of Court the said William Chandler then
sheriffe of Charles County aforesaid The said fourteenth day of
ffebruary the same John Sanders into his hands and Custody did
take, and him the said John sanders by vertue of the same Order of
Court in the safe Custody of him the said W^m Chandler at Por-

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