WH	William Geddes
	@	Command was given to the Sheriff of Somerset County that he Should Take Gilbert
LD WA	Gilbert Hoffington	Hoffington 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 November Anno Dom. one thousand Seven hundred and fifty
Eight to Answer unto William Geddes of A plea of trespass upon the Case and So forth And the Same day is given to
the af^d. William here &^c.       Att which day here Came the af^d. William Geddes by W^m. Hayward his Attorney and the
Sheriff to witt William Allen Gent. now here Returned that he had taken the af^d. Gilbert Hoffington whose body here
at this day he had Ready to Answer the af^d. Gilbert Hoffington of the af^d. plea as to him it was Commanded
      Whereupon the Said Gilbert Hoffington at the prayer of the af^d. William Geddes is Adjudged to give Special
Bail to the Action af^d. Thereupon a Certain John Hoffington of Somerset County planter present here in Court in his
proper person undertook for the Said Gilbert Hoffington that if it Should happen that Judgment in the plea af^d. Should
be Rendred for the Said William Geddes Against the af^d. Gilbert Hoffington or that he the Said Gilbert Hoffington
Should be therein Convict that then he the Said Gilbert Should pay and Satisfie unto the af^d. William the
Judgment of the Court thereupon or Render his body in Execution of Such Judgment to the prison of the Sheriff
of the County af^d. in Satisfaction thereof or that he the Said John Hoffington will do the Same for him &^c.
   Whereupon the Said Gilbert Hoffington puts in his place Littleton Dennis Gent. Attorney at Law against
the af^d. William Geddes of the af^d. plea
      And thereupon at the prayer of the parties af^d. day is to them now here given untill next Court to be held
at Princes Ann Town the third Tuesday of March then next following in the State that now Saveing to the
parties af^d. &^c.
                  Att which day here Came the parties af^d. by their Attorneys af^d. And hereupon the Said William
Geddes Complained of the af^d. Gilbert Hoffington in the plea af^d. in form following
Somerset fs^t Gilbert Hoffington Late of Somerset County planter was Attached to Answer unto William Geddes of
A plea of trespass upon the Case and So forth    And Whereupon the Said William by William Hayward his Attorney
Complains that whereas by an Act of Assembly of this Province Intituled an Acto Prohibiting all Masters of Ships or

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