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22) Tobacco well and truly he would pay And Altho’ the Said Thomas did pay the Sume of Six thousand two hundred twenty four pounds of tobacco unto the Said Edward in part of the afd Sume of 12523 pds tobo. Yet as to the residue being Tobo. Six thousand Two hundred ninety and nine pounds of ^ the afd Thomas his afd promise and Assumtion not minding or in Any Manner regarding but plotting Contriving and fraudulently intending him the Said Edward in that behalf Craftilly and Subtilly to deceiv and defraud the afd Sume of 6299lb tobo. residue of the afd 12523lb tobo. altho often demanded the Said Thomas unto The Said Edwd. refused to pay Whereupon the Said Edward Afterwards in the Court of our Lord the King that is to Say at Annapolis in the provincial Court there held for the Province of Maryland before Thomas Smithson Esqr And his Associ= =ates Justices of our Said Lord the King of the Said Court by a writt of or. Said Lord the King impleaded the Said Thomas of a plea of Trespass upon the Case of the afd Sume of 6299lb tobo. residue of the afd Sum of 12523lb tobo And whereas the Said Thomas after the return of the Said Writt in the afd Court of our Said Lord the King in Conside= =ration that he the Said Edward at the Special instance and request of the afd Thomas would forbear to prosecute agt. him the Said Thos. upon the afd Writt of Trespass upon the case in the afd Court of Our Lord the King by the Said Edward against the Said Thomas brought Nor further upon the afd writt against the Said Thomas would in the afd Provincial Court proceed upon himself Assumed And unto the Said Edward faithfully promis’d that he the Said Thomas the afd Sum of Six thousand two hundred ninety nine pounds of tobacco residue as afd of the afd 12523lb tobacco and All costs and Charges yt: he the Said Edward had laid out And Expended in the law in & of About the prosecution ^ the afd Writt When thereunto required he Would pay And Altho: the Said Edward upon hopes of the faith= :full promise and Assumption of the afd Thomas did forbear to prosecute the Said Thomas upon the afd writt of our Lord the King in the afd Court and upon the Sd writt did not in the afd Court of or. Lord the King proceed against him the Said Thomas but the Same Suit in the afd Court of our Lord the King before the afd Justices of our Sd Ld the Kind did Stop And a Concord thereupon caused before the afd Justices to be entered in the record of the Said Court And the Said Edward further Sayth that his cost and Charges laid out and Expended in prosecuting the afd Writt of our Ld the King against him the Said Thomas Amounts to the Sume of Seven hundred and Sixty pounds of tobacco as Pr bill of Cost herein Court brought the Same Appeares which together with ye. afd Sum of Six thousand two hundred ninety nine pounds of tobo. Amounts to the Sum of Seven thousand fifty and nine pounds of tobo. & Altho: the afd Thomas hath paid and Satisfyed unto the Sd Edward five thousand nine hundred and Sixty pounds of tobo. in part of the afd 7059lb tobo. Yet as to the residue of the afd 7059lb tobo being one thousand ( ninety |
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