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       And the said Thomas Toulson by Robert Ridgely his Attorney          Liber W. C
     cometh and defendeth the force & Injury when &c and prayeth Lib-      p. 452
     erty to Imparle hereunto untill next Provinciall Court and It is
     granted unto him The same day is given to the Plantiffe Likewise
      Att wch said next Provinciall Court Came the said partyes by
     their Attorneys. Attorneys aforesaid, and the said Thomas Toulson
     by his said Attorney sayth that he did not assume and promise in
     manner & forme as the said Joseph above in his DeclaracOn against
     him hath Complained and of this he puts himself upon the Country
     and the said plantiffe Likewise, Day is thereupon given to both
     partyes untill next Provinciall Court
       Now here at this day to wit the Seaventeenth day of November in
     the sixth yeare of the Dominion of the Right honobie Charles Lord
     Baltemore &c Annop Doni 1681 Came the said Joseph Pile by his
     Attorney aforesaid & offered himself against the said Thomas Toul
     son in the plea aforesaid but the said Thomas Came not but made
     default, Therefore Itt is Considered that the said Joseph Pile Re
     cover against the said Thomas Toulson aswell the aforesaid sume
     of One hundred ffifty nine pounds seaven shillings & nine pence debt
     wth costs of suite, as also his Damages by him sustained by Ocasion
     of the Detaining of the Debt aforesaid, But because It is not Knowne
     to the Court here what Damages the said Joseph Pile hath sustained
     by Occasion thercof It is therefore Ordered that a Writ of Enquiry
     of Damages issue Returneable att the next Provinciall Court

    John  Rousby The Jury finding for the plt in this Cawse Six
        agt thousand pounds of tobacco wth Costs of suite The
   Joseph Spernon   Deft by Robert Ridgely his Attorney Moved in
                arrest of Judgmt, Day is thereupon given to both
     partyes untill next Provinciall Court

    Thomas Bowman Stephen Gary sheriffe of Dorchestr County was
        agt attached to answere unto Thomas Bowman of a
     Stephen Gary   plea Wherefore with force and armes upon the
     said Thomas att Little Chaptanke in Dorchester
     County he made an Assault and him beate wounded imprissoned &
     evilly handled & him there inprisson being a long while did Keepe
     & other injuryes to him offered to the greate Damage of the said
     Thomas and against his Lopps peace
      And whereupon the said Thomas by Robert Carvile his Attorney
     Complaines that Whereas the said stephen Gary upon the ninth day
     of October in the yeare of our Lord 1680 being then and Yet Sheriffe
     of the said County of Dorchester, Att Little Chaptanke in the said
     County of Dorchester by force and Armes upon the said Thomas
     Did make an assault & him beate wounded Imprissoned & evilly
     Intreated & him soe in prisson being ffor a Long time That is to say p. 453