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March Court 1716 184 Plt against Jno Burk Deft~ you William Woodland do undertake for the Sd John Burk Deft in ye Sum of Twelve hundred pounds of Tobacco to be Leveyed on your goods and Chattells Lands & Tenements to ye use of ye Sd Josiah Crouch ye Pltf upon Condition that if the Said John Burk Shall not pay ye Condemnati :on of a Certain debt or Trespass upon ye Case obtained this last November Court in the afd County & Province or deliver himselfe to ye prison of the Lord Proprietor or you will do it for him You Acknowledge your Selfe to be Content therewith Taken & Acknowledged before me John March one of the Lord Proprietors Justices of Said County the first day of December Anno Domini 1716 And at the Same Court the afd Accõn Standing for tryall Came the afd Plt. and offered himselfe in the plea afd and the Said Deft being called Came not neither hath he put in any Plea to the Same . on which this Court give rule to the Said Deft~ to plead to the Same four hours before the Court adjourns otherwise Judgment to be rendered for want of the Same : after which time being out and no plea put in whereby the afd Pltf may Still remain without defence Therefore it is Consider: :ed by the Court here vizt. the day last mentioned That is to Say this Twenty third day of March Anno Domini One Thousand Seven hundred and Sixteen That the afd Pltf Josiah Crouch Admr. of the Said Anthony Knowlman deceased Recover against the Said Deft John Burk as well the afd SUme of five hundred fifty Seven pounds of Tobacco Debt~. as also the Sume of Three hundred thirty one pounds of Tobacco Cost~ by the afd Pltf about his Suite in this behalfe expended and by the Court here of his assent adjudged and that the Said Deft be taken into Custody Jams Smith Clk~
Province of Maryland Planter if he Should be found in his Bailywick & him Safe keep So that he have his body before his Said Lord Ships Justices of the next Court to be held at our Court house in the Town of Chester in Said County was Summoned to Answer unto William Granger of the afd County & Province Cordwind.r of a plea that he render to him the full and just Sume of five thousand pounds of good Sound Merchantable leafe Tobacco and Cask of ye price &ca value of Twenty pounds Sixteen Shillings & Eight pence Sterling money which he unjustly |
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