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      ffourteene hundred Ninety and Nine pounds of Tobacco for her            Liber W. C.
      costs and charges in this behalfe Layd out and Expended:

     Susanna Uty Memorandum that at a Provinciall Court held at
         agt the Citty of st Maryes the ffifth day of October in
    John Nicholls    the yeare of our Lord 1680 before his Lopps Justices
                of the sd Court Came Susanna Uty of Baltemore
      County by Robert Carvile her Attorney And exhibited to the Court
      here a Certaine Transcript of the Record of Baltemore County Court
      in a Cause there depending betweene John Nicholls & Mary his wife
      pits and the said susanna Uty deft in a plea of Trespasse of the Case
      The Tenor of wch Record is in these words
         Att a Court held for Baltemore County on ye seaventh day of
         July Anno Dini 1680 & in the 5th yeare of the Dominion of the
         Rt honoble Charles Lord Baltemore &Ca By his Lopps Justices
         thereunto Assigned
                 Coll George Wells Miles Gibson
      Prsent Comissrs               .   Gentl:
                 Cap Jno Waterton Jno Boreing
       Charles Absolute Lord and Propry of the Provinces of Mary-              p. 507
      land &ca To the sheriffe of Baltemore County greeting Wee Comand
      yoU to take Susanna Uty if she shall be found in yor baliwick and
      her safe Keepe soe that you have her body att a Court to be held
      for Baltemore County the first Tuesday in ffebruary next Ensueing
      to Answere unto John Nicholls & Mary his wife in a plea of Trespas
      on the Case and have you there this writ Dated January the One
      and twentyeth Anno Doni 1679 and in the fifth yeare of Our
      Dominion &ca
      Entered & Signed p ordr Thomas Hedge Cl. Count. Bait.
       John Dunston appeares for Susanna Uty at the suite of John
      Nicholls and Mary his wife In a plea of Trespasse on the Case.

      Baltemore County ss
       Susanna Uty was attached to answere unto John Nicholls &
      Mary his wife in a plea of Trespasse on the Case
       And Whereupon the said John and Mary by Thomas Russell
      their Attorney complaineth that Whereas the said Mary the wife
      of the said John haveing served the said susanna the full time of
      ffoure yeares as by Indenture may more at large appeare, The wch
      time being Compleated and Ended the Eight and Twentyeth day of
      september last past And haveing then att that time Demanded her
      freedome she the said Susanna Unjustly Denyed the same, and
      wittingly forced the said Mary without her free will or consent
      to Continue in the said Susanna's Service from the date aforesaid
      untill the Nine & twentyeth day of September wch is Three Com
      pleate Months, ffor the wch service she hath Demanded of the said
      Susanna the sume of ffoure hundred pounds of Tobacco wth she
      unjustly refuseth to pay although often Demanded, and hath denyed