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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 - Tolly |
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Kent County Court, Proceedings, 1716-1718
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