Provincial Court Proceedings, 1679/80. 345

Deliver unto the same Court To Answere unto the said Thomas
Simpson of the said plea of debt as by the said writt hee was
Comanded, w^ch said John Sanders did then imediately in open Court
aforesaid Confesse Judgment to the Said Thomas Simpson for the
debt aforesaid with Costs of suite, and the Same John Sanders
became Legally discharged from the Custody of the said Gerrard
slye who was not bound by the Law of the Land to Detaine the said
John Sanders in Custody for the said Pretended debt of ffoure hun-
dred pounds Stert supposed to bee due from the said John Sanders
to the said John Machen, Nor to deliver the body of the said John
Sanders Together with the order of Court Menconed in the said
Declaracon to bee made by the said Court the said Twelfth day of
June 1678 aforesaid unto the said sheriffe of Charles County or his

Liber W. C.

Deputy As by the pits said Declaracon is falsly suggested w^ch said
Arrest of the said John Sanders within the County of S^t Marys by
the said Sam^ll Dobson a sworne and Knowne Deputy and officer of
the said Gerrard Slye Sheriffe of S^t Maryes County as aforesaid By
vertue of the writt aforesaid at the suite of the said Thomas Simp-
son, and the detaining of the said John Sanders thereupon, and the
said Produceing and Delivery of the said John Sanders into Court
in pursueance and obedience of the said p^rcept and the not Detaining
of the Said John Sanders in Custody of him the said Gerrard Slye
after hee the said John Sanders had Confessed Judgment to the
said Thomas Simpson as aforesaid, Is the forceing takeing & rescue-
ing & Voluntary suffering to go at large & Escape mentioned in the
said plantiffes Said Declaracon All w^ch the said Gerard Slye is
Ready to averre & Prayes Judgment &c And if the said John Machen
his accon aforesaid against him the said Gerard ought to have
And the said plt by his said Attorney sayth that hee the said
Plantiffe from haveing his accon aforesaid against him the said
Gerrard ought not to bee barred, because hee sayth That the said
Gerrard Slye the same Tenth day of June in the yeare aforesaid att
the Citty of S^t Maryes aforesaid the said John Sanders Out of the
Custody of the said Roger ffowkes Deputy of the Said William
Chandler and Keeper of the said John Sanders Knowing to bee
Prisson^r of the said William Chandler at the suite of the said plan-
tiffe Did fforce take and Rescue, by reason whereof the same Ger-
rard became Charged & burthened w^th the Keeping and Detaining
the said John Sanders for the debt of the same John Machen for
the sume of ffoure hundred pounds Stert Due from the said John
Sanders to the said John Machen as aforesaid, and for w^ch hee was
in Custody untill hee should have given Speciall Bayle as Aforesaid
according to the Ord^r of Court aforesaid, and that the said Gerard
slye the Twelfth day of June aforesaid The said John Sanders did
Voluntarily suffer to goe att Large and make his Escape out of the
Custody of the said Gerrard in manner and forme as the said John

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