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710 Command was given to the sheerif of Kent County y.e 26.th day of November Anno Dom 1696 to take Walter Lodge if should be found in his Bailiwick and him safe Keepe soe that he have his Body before his Maj.ties Justices att the next Court to be held for said County to Answer unto William Sparkes Jun.r of a plea of Trespasse upon the case Att which Court viz this present day the day of the returne of the sd Writt came Capt Edward Sweatnam high sheerif of sd County and made returne of the said Writt in these words viz Cepi p Edw Sweatnam sheff
Wherupon the said William Sparkes by Griffith Jones his Att.ry complains that wheras the said Walter Lodge on the 10.th day of May Anno Dom 1696 in the sd County within the Jurisdicon of this Court stood Justly indebted unto the sd William the full and Just sume of Two Thowsand poundes of Tobaccoe for One horse which was att the Especial instance and request of him the said Walter sould and delivered In consideracon therof he Assumed upon himselfe and to him the said William did then and there faithfully promise that he the said Walter the aforesd sume of Two Thowsand poundes of Tobaccoe to him the said William when he should be therunto afterwards required would and faithfully pay & content and alltho he the said Walter pd and sattisfied to him the said William Twelve hundred pds of Tobaccoe of the aforesd Two Thowsand poundes of Tob Yett the aforesd Walter his promise & assumption aforesd as to the Eight hundred poundes of Tobaccoe residue little regarding but plotting and fraudulently intending him the sd W.m of the aforsd 800.ll of Tob craftily to deceive & defraud the ^same^ 800.ll Tobaccoe to him the said William afterwards he hath been therunto required according to his promise and Assumption aforsd he hath not paid or in any manner for the same satisfied but the same wether to pay he hath alltogether refused and denied and as Yett refuse to the damage of him the said William 1600.ll Tobaccoe And therupon he brings this suit Jones p to pro Jno Doe Ri Roe |
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