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88 Provincial Court Proceedings, 1679/80.
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Liber W. C.
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sand two hundred sixty & eight pound[s] of tobacco unto the afore-
said Edward Roe in his life tyme according to the tenour forme &
effect of the Condition of the aforesaid Obligacdn did not well &
truely pay & render as the aforesaid Nicholas hath above alleadged
And this she prayeth may be enquired of by the Countrey, where-
upon day is given to both parties untill next Provintiall Court
Now here att this day to witt the Sixteenth day of ffebruary in
the fifth yeare of the Dominion of the right Honble Charles Lord
Baltemore &c Annoq Doni 1679 came the said Mary Roe by her
Attorney aforesaid, & offered herselfe against the said Nicholas
Hacket in the plea aforesaid, but the said Nicholas came not but
made default, Therefore itt is considered that the said Mary Roe
recover against the said Nicholas Hacket the aforesaid sume of
Eighteen thousand five hundred thirty [&] six pounds of tobacco debt
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p. 80
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As also ffive hundred thirty & six Pounds of tobacco costs of suite
And the Defendt in mercy &c.
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Edward Leach
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Robert Murphy
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Robert Murphy late of Talbot County was At-
tached to Answer unto Edward Leach of a plea of
trespas upon the case
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And whereupon the said Edward Leach by Rob-
ert Carvile his Attorney saith, that whereas the said Robert Murphy
upon the fourteenth day of May Anno Doni one thousand six hun-
dred seaventy eight had bought & received of the said Edward by
the hands of Thomas Hinson Attorney of the said Edward Leach
one thousand seven hundred & ffifteene yards of lining att five pounds
& an halfe p yard which comes to nine thousand f cure hundred thirty
two pounds of tobacco And also Eleaven yards of broad cloath att
forty pounds tobacco p yard which comes to foure hundred & sixty
pounds of tobacco, which stud Gumcs amount in the •whole to the
sume of nine thousand eight hundred seventy & two pounds of
tobacco In consideration whereof the said Robert did assume upon
himself & to the said Edward did faithfully promise that he the said
Robert the said Sume of nine thousand Eight hundred seventy & two
pounds of tobacco to him the said Edward when he should be there-
unto requested would well & truely satisfie & pay. Yet notwithstand-
ing the said Robert his promise & assumption aforesaid little re-
guarding but deviseing & fraudulently intending him the said Edward
in this behalfe craftily & fraudulently to defraud & deceive, the said
Sume of nine thousand Eight hundred seventy two pounds of to-
bacco to him the said Edward though often thereunto requested
hath not paid or satisfied, but the same to pay and satisfie hath
hitherto denyed & refused & still doth deny and refuse to the damage
of the said Edward Sixteene thousand pounds of tobacco, & there-
upon he bringeth his suite
And the said Robert by Christopher Rousby his Attorney com-
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