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lick allowances which he has had So much trouble given him about And be-
ing So long kept out of he may have the benefit of the law [390] Secured to
him And be protected by this Honourable Court in his full and legal right
Without that that any other matter or thing in the Complainants S^d Bill of
Complaint contained Material or effectual for this Defendant to make answer
to And not herein and hereby Sufficiently answered unto confessed or
avoided traversed or denyed is true to the Knowledge and beliefe of this
defendant All which matters and things this Defendant is ready to aver and
prove As this Hon^rble Court Shall award and humbly pray's to be hence dis-
missed with his reasonable Costs and charges in this behalf most wrongfully
Sustained

Tho Bordley [per se]

Thomas Bordley the afore mentioned Defendant makes oath That
what is contained in this his answer as alledged of his own act and Deed is
true And that what relates to the act and deed of any other person he be-
lieves to be true And that what is therein denyed is not true in Such manner
as therein is Set forth

Jurat 4^th die Sep^tres Sam^ll Young
Anno Dni I'ji'j'⁰⁰ Coram me

The Replication of John Gresham Gentleman To the answer of Tho^s Bord-
ley Gent defendant to the Bill of Complt of the Said John Gresham

The Said Replicant now and at all times hereafter Saving and reserving
To himself the benefite and advantage of exception to the manifold incer-
taintyes and insufficiencyes imperfections, Subtil evasions and indecent Scan-
dals in the Defendants Said answer contain'd for replication thereto or Soe
much thereof as concerns the Replicant to reply unto he replyeth and Saith
That the matters and things in his Said Bill of Complaint alledged are true
in Such Sort and manner as therein expressed and that the matters and facts
in the Said Defendants answer are not true as therein Set forth, and referrs
him to the proof of the same, And further Replyeth and Saith that Since it
is evident that the defendant insists on the Settlement of accounts made by
the Complainant and him on or about November in the year one thousand
Seven hundred and eight and that theire ought to be no examination [391]
into what past before, be it ever Soe apparently unjust he hopes that this
Hon^rble Court will judge that part of his ans^r giving an account of the pas-
sages between him and the Complainant in years foregoing and of the acci-
dent by the fire of the State house to be contrived to Stuff his Answer with
Amusements to hide the truth or at most can be looked upon little better
than a Varnish designed to recommend his oppresions of the Complainant as
acts becoming a Very indulging pious good Neighbour and a forbearing
Creditor, And especially when the defendant takes upon him to descant upon
Transactions which he but Supposes past between the Complainant and one