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Provincial Court Proceedings, 1681. 8i places aforesaid Did therefore to a Certaine instrument of protest Liber W. C. subscribe his name and put to his wonted and accustomed seale (being requested) to Certify and Testify the premisses, wch said instrument of protest is by the said Cuthbert here in Court produced, Now the said John Steventon the Younger Little regarding his promise and Assumption made as aforesaid, but plotting & fraudulently Intend ing him the said Cuthbert of the said Eight pounds Twelve shillings to deceive and Defraude, the same eight pounds Twelve shillings to him the said Cuthbert hath not paid although often thereunto Re quired, but Doth Utterly refuse to pay the same, By wch the said p. 463 Cuthbert the whole proffit gaines and advantage wch he wth the said Eight pounds Twelve shillings if it had been payd to the said Cuth bert according to the promise of the said Jno in that behalfe made, by buying and selling and Lawfully bargaineing with the same might have had and gained, is Now Totally Lost and Deprived of Where upon he saith he is Damnified and hath Lost to the Vallue of seaven teen pounds sterling, and thereupon hee bringeth his suite, And the said Cuthbert Drew bringeth here into Court aswell the said bill of Exchange as ye instrumt of protest whereby the premisses may the more sufficiently appeare unto ye Court in manner and forme as is aforesaid And the said John Steventon by Kenelm Cheseldyn his Attorney cometh and Defendeth the force and Injury when &c and prayeth Liberty to impar!e hereunto untill next Provinciall Court and It is granted unto him the same day is given to the plantiffe Likewise Now here att this day to wit the Eighteenth day of Novembr in the sixth yeare of the Dominion of the Right Honoble Charles Lord Baltemore &Ca Annoq Doni 1681 Came the said Cuthbert Drew by his Attorney aforesaid & offered himself against the said John steventon in the plea aforesaid but the said John Steventon Come not but made Default Therefore It is Considered that the said Cuthbert Drew Recover against the said John Steventon aswell the aforesaid sume of Eight pounds Twelve shillings sterling the debt aforesaid and his Damages sustained by Occasion of the premisses at thirty p Cent amounting to Two pounds Tenn shillings & three pence sterling, as also the sume of ffive hundred seaventy Nine pounds of Tobacco for costs of suite, and the said Deft in mercy &ca: Owen Guither Admr Gerrard Slye late of St Maryes County was of Mary Jones attached to answere unto Owen Guither Admr agt of the goods and Chattles of Mary Jones deed Gerrard Slye of a plea of Trespasse of the case And Whereupon the said Owen by Robert Carvile his Attorney sayth that Whereas the said Mary upon the Ninth day of Aprill in the yeare of our Lord 1679 at St Michaels hundred in St Maryes County in the Province aforesaid was posessed |
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