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821 three hundred and forty six pounds of the said Tob.o by Virtue of the said Attachment were Condemned in the said Falkoners hands and by him paid to Nathaniel Hynson then Sheriff of Cæcill County so that by the Fraudulent Contrivance and subtilly of the Said John Atkey said Atkey Instead of paying the said Braines his Just Debt and Costs according to the Intent of the Judgment aforesaid by Colour of the ^s.d^ writt of Restitution hath been restored to that which never was taken from him your the Said Benjamine having had a Cap.s Ad Satisfaciend ag.t the Body of the Said John Atkey by virtue of the Judgment afd who thereon was taken in Execution and the said writt by John Hynson the Sherriff returned Cepi which really and bona fide was the only Execution your orat.r ^the said Braines^ had ag.t said Atkey having never meddled with said Atkeys Tobacco or any other of his Goods & Chattles by Virtue of any Judgm.t or Execution whatsoever That the said John Atkey without any colour pretence or Consideration hath inequitably gott into his hands by Virtue of the writt of Restitution afd & the attachment thereon the sum of seven thousand three hundred forty six pounds of Tobacco afd which he still possesses the said Benjamine beleiveing his designe to be nothing less then to Defraud him of the same when contrary to all the Rules of Equity and Justice he hath Converted the same to his owne use and refuses to be accountable to the said Benjamine for the same or any part thereof all which actings and doings of said John Atkey tend to the ruin of the Said Benj.a family and trade in tender Consideration whereof and for that the said Benj.a is remidiless at by the Strict rules of the Comon Law and properly releivable in this high and honble Court which ever discountenances frauds and oppressions of this kind to the End therefore that the said Atkey may upon his Corporall Oath to be taken on the holy Evangelist of almighty God discover the truth of all and singular the premisses and perticularly whether he was not Executed by said John Hynson late sherriff of Cæcill County by Virtue of a Cap.s Ad Satisfaciendum (obtained |
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