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Memorandum that the plaintiffe being present in Court, did ac-
cept of the abovesaid judgem^t

Liber W. C.

Jacob Leisler
ag^t
Marke Cordea

Marke Cordea late of S^t Maryes County M^rchant
was Attached to Answer unto Jacob Leisler of New
Yorke Merchant of a plea of trespas upon the case
And whereupon the said Jacob Leisler by Robert

Ridgely his Attorney complaineth, that whereas the said Marke
Cordea was indebted to the said Jacob Leisler the Sume of ninety
Eight pounds currant sterling money of England. And being so
indebted the said Marke Cordea did in consid^racon thereof the
twelfth day of May in the yeare of our Lord One thousand six
hundred Seventy & seven draw three bills of Exchange according
to the Customs of Merchants & signed with the proper hand of the
said Marke Cordea & directed to one M^r Henry Coutary M^rchant
in London for the payment of the said Ninety Eight pounds at
fifty dayes after sight of any of the said three bills of Exchange
either of the other two not being paid, unto the said Jacob Leisler
or his order, the value thereof being received of the said Jacob
Leisler in Maryland And the said Marke Cordea did then & there
assume Upon himselfe & to the said Jacob did faithfully promise,
that if the said Henry Coutary the said Ninety Eight pounds to him
the said Jacob or his order should not well & truely pay according to
the tenour of the said bills of Exchange, that he the said Marke
Cordea would well & truly pay the same when thereunto required
And the said Jacob Leisler in fact saith that he the said Jacob did
under his hand order the first of the said bills of Exchange to be
paid unto M^r John Dervill Merchant in London, who on the behalfe
of the said Jacob on the fourth day of July in the yeare of our Lord
One thousand six hundred Seventy seven aforesaid did deliver the

same to Abraham DeSmith Notary publick And Tabellion Royall
resideing in London to demand the same which said Notary the
said fourth day of July in the yeare aforesaid att the request of the
said John Dorvill Merchant haveing in his hands said bill of Ex-
change, the said Notary went to the house of the said Henry
Coutary & shewed unto the said Henry Coutary the said first bill of
Exchange for the said Ninety Eight pounds sterling drawne by the
said Marke Cordea on the said Henry Coutary payable to the said
Jacob Leisler or his order, & by the said Leisler ordered on the back
thereof to be payd unto the said John Dorvill And the said Notary
then & there demanded of him the said Henry Coutary to accept
thereof, whereupon the said Coutary returned the said Notary for
Answer, that he would not accept of the said bill for want of effects,
therefore the said Notary did protest the aforesaid bill of Exchange
for non acceptance against the said M^r Henry Coutary, as also
against the drawer thereof & all others whom itt doth shall or may

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