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life tyme to witt the twenty third day of Octob^r One thousand six
hundred Seventy Eight, att the City of S^t Maryes, being then very
sick and labouring under a certaine distemper called a feavour, in
consideracon that the said Edward (being a Chirurgion & used to
Administer Phisick to his patients) would apply unto him such means
& medicam^ts as he the said Edward should thinke necessary in his said
distemper And also would as often as he should thinke itt necessary
visitt him the said Richard, & attend & Administer to him such por-
tions of phisicall remedies as the said Edward in his judgement

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should imagine the said Richards distemper Might require, he the
said Richard upon himselfe did assume & to the said Edward did
faithfully promise that he the said Richard him the said Edward
for his meanes medicaments potions & phisicall remedies that he
should apply unto him & Administer to him, & also for his paines
labour & tyme in comeing to staying with & attending the said
Richard in his said distemper, would (what for the same the said
Edward should reasonably deserve) pay content & satisfie And the
said Edward in fact saith, that trusting to the faithfull promise &
assumpcon of the said Richard to him the said Edward in that
behalfe made as aforesaid he the said Edward from the said twenty
third day of Octob^r in the yeare aforesaid untill the fourth day of
Novemb^r then next following did attend & visitt as much & as often
as occasion did require And during the tyme aforesaid did Admin-
ister to the said Richard divers potions Electuaries & other physicall
meanes, & did apply to him severall plaisters, a particuler of which by
the said Edward is here in Court produced, for which he doth reason-
ably deserve Seventeen hundred ninety & f our e pounds of tobacco
Yet the aforesaid Richard Chillman in his life tyme nor the said
Gerard Slye since his death to whom the Administracon of all &
singular the Goods Chattles rights & creditts which were of the said
Richard att the tyme of his death since his death hath bin comitted,
the said Seventeen hundred ninety foure pounds of tobacco to the
said Edward although often thereunto required according to the
promise of the said Richard to him the said Edward in his life tyme
so as aforesaid made, hath not paid, but the same to pay hath denyed
& as yet doth deny, to the damage of the said Edward six thousand
pounds of tobacco, & thereupon he bringeth his suite
And the said Gerard Slye by Christopher Rousby his Attorney
cometh & defendeth the force & injury when &c and putteth himselfe
upon the judgm^t of the Court of & upon the p^rmisses And the plain-
tiff e also whereupon the p^rmisses being seen & by the justices here
fully understood Itt is considered by the Court here this day to witt
the ffifteenth day of Octob^r in the fourth yeare of the Dominion of
the right Hon^ble Charles Lord Baltemore &c Annoq Doni 1679 the
said Edward Mollins recover against the said Gerard Slye Adm^r as
aforesaid as well the sume One thousand three hundred ninety foure

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