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June Court 1717 208 as folls vizt Cepi Corpus pr Wm Ffrisby Sher. But a Declaration being fild 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 Maryland Ss Richard Mason of Kent County Planter alis Dics Richd Mason of Kent County in the Province of Maryland Planter was Summoned to Answer unto Philemon Lloyd of Queen Annes County in ye afd Province Esquier of a plea that he render to him ye full & Just Sume of Three Thou: :sand Eighty Six pounds of good Sound Merchantable leafe Tobacco & Caske of ye value of twelve pounds Seventeen Shills & two pence Sterling money which from him he unjustly detains &ca. And whereupon the afd Plt. by Thomas Bowne his attry Saith that whereas the afd Deft~ ye twenty fourth day of July Anno Domini Seventeen hundred fourteen at S.t 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 and as his deed delivered hereinto Court brought the date whereof is the Same day and Year afd Granted himselfe holden and firmly bound unto the afd Plt in the afd full and Just Sume of Three Thousand Eighty Six pounds of good Sound Merchantable leafe Tob.o & Cask of ye afd value of twelve pounds Seventeen Shillings & two . pence Sterling money to be paid to the Same Plt when thereunto required Yet the afd Deft altho’ often required the afd Three Thou = :sand Eighty Six pounds of Tobo to the Said Plt hath not rendered but the Same hitherto to render hath denied & yet doth deny and — unjustly doth detain to the damage of the Said Plt twenty pounds . Sterling money and thereupon he brings Suite &ca TBowne pr qr. pledges &ca. John Doe & Richd Roe . . And at the Said Court the Said Deft~ being called came and the Said Plt by his afd attry - prays that the Said Deft may give Special baile to the above Accon which is granted after which Harmanus Schee of Said County - here in Court came and acknowledged himselfe Special baile in the above Accõn and undertakes for the Said Deft the payment of the Debt afd and Cost accruing if in Case the afd Plt Shall obtaine Judgmt. in the Said Accon of Debt and the Deft the Condemnation Shall not Satisfie nor himselfe to the Custody of the Sherrife of Said County — deliver or that the Said Harmanus Schee the body of the Said Richd Shall not render &ca. After which the Said Richard in his — proper person appeared to the above Accõn and Saith that he Cannot gainsay the Accõn afd of him the Said Plt nor but that the writing obligatory above mentioned is his act and deed and that he |
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Kent County Court, Proceedings, 1716-1718
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