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346 Provincial Court Proceedings, 1679/80.
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Liber W. C.
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above against him hath Complained, and this hee prayeth may bee
Enquired of by the Country
And The said deft sayth That for any thing before alledged the
plt ought not to maintaine his accon because protesting that the said
defendant did not Knowingly force take and Rescue the body of the
said John Sanders out of the Custody of the said William Chandler
as is above alledged, and for plea sayth That the said Sanders by
occasion of the takeing and detaineing of him by the said Slye By
vertue of the writt aforesaid to him directed was in noe wayes in
this defts Custody at the suite of the plantiffe, and this hee is Ready
to averre and puts himself Upon the Country
Whereupon The said Gerrard Slye by his Attorney aforesaid in-
formed this Court that the said John Machen is a fforeigner, and
moved the Court for Speciall Bayle for Costs of suite If the said
John Machen should bee Cast or Nonsuited in this Cawse wch the
pns Attorney refused to give, Itt is therefore Considered That the
said Jno Machen take nothing by his writt but bee in mercy for his
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false plaint thereon And that the said Gerard Slye may goe thereof
without day And that the said Gerard Slye Recover against the said
John Machen the sume of pounds of Tobacco
for his Costs and charges by him about his Defence in this behalfe
Laid out and Expended
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Lydia Solley
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Collen Mackensy
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Memorandum that the six and Twentyeth day of
fffebruary in the ffifth yeare of the Dominion of
Charles Absolute Lord and Propry of the Prov-
inces of Maryland and Avalon Lord Baron of
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Baltemore &c and in the yeare of our Lord 1679 Came Lydia Solley
by Robert Ridgely her Attorney before Philip Calvert Escp Chan-
cellor of this province and prayed his Lopps writt of Error to her the
said Lidia Solley to bee granted To the Justices Of his Lops County
Court of St Maryes County to bee directed, To Require them the
said Justices of the said County Court of St Maryes County to send
before his Justices of the said Lopps Provinciall Court the Tenor
of the Record proceedings and Judgment of the said County Court
of St Maryes County in a Cause lately there depending betweene one
Certaine Lydia Solley plt and Collen Mackensy defendant in a plea
that hee Render and pay unto her Seaven hundred thirty Seaven
pounds of Tobacco wch hee oweth and unjustly detaineth, and Itt is
granted to her The Tenor whereof ffolloweth in these words
Charles Absolute Lord and Propry of the Provinces of Maryland &
Avalon Lord Baron of Baltemore &c To our Comission™ of our
County of St Maryes County greeting, because in the Record and
processe as also in the Rendring of Judgment before you in our
said County Court of St Maryes County against Lydia Solley in a
Cause lately there depending before you betweene the said Lydia
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