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Kent County Court, Proceedings, 1716-1718
Volume 767, Page 185   View pdf image
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    185                                    March Court 1716
   unjustly detains And the Sume of one pounds Sixteen Shillings Currant~
   money of this Province of Maryland which to him he oweth & from him
   unjustly detaineth   And that he have then and there the Said writ &ca
   Att which Said next Court viz the nineteenth day of March the Same year last~
   mentioned the day of return of Said writ Came William Frisby Gent high Sherf
   of Said County and made return thereof in these words thereon endrosed as folls.
   vizt. Cepi Corpus pr Wm Ffrisby Sherf.
    And A Decln being filed when Said writ Issued forth and a Copy thereof
   Served therewith according to Act of assembly in Such Cases made was as
   folls vizt Kent County Ss Thomas Cooke of Kent County Planter alis Dics Thos
   Cooke of the County of Kent in the Province of Maryland Planter was —
   Summoned to Answer unto William Granger of the afd County & Province
   Cordwindr 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 & value of Twenty pounds Sixteen Shillings & Eight pence
   Sterling money which he unjustly detains and ye Sume of one pound
   Sixteen Shillings Currant money of this Province of Maryland which to -
   him he oweth & from him unjustly detaineth And Whereupon the Said
   Plt~ by Thomas Bowne his attry Saith that whereas the afd Deft~ the Sixteenth
   day of 7ber Anno Domini Seventeen hundred and fifteen at St. Pauls Parish in
   Kent County afd within the Jurisdiciõn of this Court by his certain writing —
   obligatory which the Said Deft Sealed with his Seale & as his deed —
   delivered hereinto Court brought ye date whereof is ye Same day & year afd
   granted himself holden & firmly bound unto ye afd Plt~ in ye afd full & just~
   Sume of five thousand pounds of good Sound Merchantable leafe Tobacco and
   Case of ye afd price & value of Twenty pounds Sixteen Shillings and Eight pence
   Sterling money and the Sume of one pound Sixteen Shillings Currant money
   of this Province of Maryland to be paid to the Same pltf when thereunto —
   required Yet the afd Deft~ altho’ often required ye afd five thousand pounds
   of Tobacco and the afd one pound Sixteen Shillings Currant money of Mary=
  :land to the Said Plt hath not rendered but the Same hitherto to render hath
   denied and Yet doth deny and the Said five Thousand pounds of Tobacco —
   unjustly doth detain to the damage of the Said Plt thirty pounds —
   Sterling money & thereupon he brings Suite &ca      Jno   Doe ———
                                 TBowne pr quer Pledg &ca} Richd & Roe ——
   And At the afd Court the day the abovesd writ was returnd The Said
   Deft being called came and the afd Plt by his attorney afd —
   prayd that the Said Deft~ might give Special baile to the above
   Accõn which was granted And that he be kept in Safe Custody by
   the Sherf of Said County untill he Should give Special baile to the
   afd Accõn . . . .    After which Came into Court Thomas -
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