LD	Rencher Roberts
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SW WH	John Records	Command was given unto the sheriff of somerset county that he should take John Records

Late of somerset county planter if he should be found in his Bailywick and him should safe keep so that he
might have his body before the Justices of his Lordships county court of somerset to be held at princes Ann Town
the third tuesday of August Anno Dom. one thousand seven hundred and sixty one to answer unto Rencher Roberts
of a plea of trespass upon the case and so forth and the same day is given to the af^d. Rencher Here &^c
           Att which day here came the af^d. Rencher Roberts by Littleton Dennis his Attorney and the sheriff to
witt John Dennis now here returned that he had taken the af^d. John Records whose body here at this day he had rea
-dy to answer the af^d. Rencher Roberts of the af^d. plea as to him it was commanded         Thereupon the af^d. John
Records at the prayer of the af^d. Rencher Roberts is adjudged to give special Bail to the action af^d.
           Whereupon a certain Benjamin Huggins present here in court in his proper person undertook for the
said John Records and assumed upon himself that if it should happen that Judgement in the plea af^d. should be ren
-dred for the said Rencher Roberts against the af^d. John Records or that he the said John Records should be therein
convict that then he the said John should pay and satisfy unto the af^d. Rencher the Judgement of the court
thereupon or Render his Body in Execution of such Judgement to the prison of the sheriff of somerset county in
satisfaction thereof or that he the said Benjamin Huggins will do the same for him &^c.
And hereupon the said John Records puts in his place Samuel Wilson & William Hayward Gen^t Attorneys at Law
against the af^d. Rencher Roberts of the af^d. plea              And hereupon at the prayer of the parties
af^d. Day is them now here given until next court to be held at princess Ann Town the third tuesday of November
then next following in the state that now saveing to the parties af^d.            Att which day here came the parties
af^d. by their Attorneys af^d. And hereupon the af^d. Rencher Roberts declared against the af^d. John Records in the plea
af^d. in form following            Somerset fs^t John Records Late of somerset county planter was sumoned to an
-swer unto Rencher Roberts of a plea that He render him six pounds fifteen shillings and three pence current
money which to him he owes and unjustly detains &^c         And Whereupon the said Rencher by Litt Dennis
his attorney says that whereas the said John the third day of March Anno Dom. MDCCLVIII at the county af^d. by his

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