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781 Charles Carroll and William Bladen Esq.s and their heires for one hundred & fifty pound sterl and Tooke bonds for the payment of the purchase money in his owne Hande without secureing the same or any part thereof to the Compl.t and on Complaint thereof to him made he gave the said Compl.t an order on the said William for the sum of forty pound sterling who then promised your orator to pay the same But so it is that when He the said Compl.t went to the said William again for the said money he refused to pay the same & Combineing with the said Edward alleaded he had Countermanded his said order and therefore then nor at anytime since the said Edwards decease hath paid him the Same but still Confederating with a Certain John Israel Adm.r of the Goods and Chattells Rights and Creditts of said Edward (whom the said Compl.t Prays may be made partys to this present Bill) with designe to defraude & the said Compl.t refuse to make in any kind or fation for the same the said William alleading he hath paid all the purchase money to the said Edward in his life time and to his administrators since his decease and the said Israel the Adm.r that he hath fully administred when your orat.r is Informed Credibly assured that there yett remains above fifty pound sterl to be paid by the said William of the purchase money for the said Houses & Lotts in Tend.r Consideration thereof and for that the said Compl.t is destitute of Evidence to prove the severall promises of his said father Edward and the said William and the truth of all and singular the premises and therefore in this honble Court most properly Releiveable where the said William Bladen and John Israel may on their Corporall oaths to be taken on the holy Evangelists of allmighty God true and pfect Answer make to all herein Contained as if herein and hereby again perticularly Interrogated and pticularly that the said William may be sett forth and Declare whether he did not see the Said Noat for the said sum or for what other sum whether he did not promise the Compl.t your orat.r at first to pay the same to him & afterwards protested the same Why he did soe whether your orat.rs father had at that time otherwise ordered all the purchase money that was then due to be (paid |
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