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279 November Court 1717 Againe meets
Seven hundred and Twenty pounds of Tobacco allowed this . County for a bote in the Publick Levey . The Same Tobo is by . this Court ordered to be Equally divided Between James Harris Esqr- and Col Nathaniel Hynson and that the Sherf pay Each three hundred and Sixty pounds of Tobacco which makes up the afd Sume of Seven hundred and Twenty pounds of Tobacco
discharges the Said James Smith from the Said Committment~ The Grand Jury having presented the Said James Smith for feloniously taking & bearing away the Sume of Thirty Shills. Currant money the goods of John Lux . which presented was framed into a bill of Indictment by - John Johnson Clarke of the Indictmts. which folls vizt. Maryland Kent~ - County Ss . . The Jurors for the Hon.ble Lord propie. & the body of Kent County on~ their oath do present that James Smith late of Shrewsbury parish in the . County afd Labourer the first day of August in the Year of our Lord one [Thous]and Seven hundred and Seventeen at the parish County afd & within ye [Jurisdici]õn of this Court by force & armes a certain Charles Hill of the Said p[arish] & County maliciously & feloniously did execte [?] perswade & procure and [in?] the house of a certain John Lux then and there feloniously to Steal [illegible] & bear away the Sume of thirty Shillings Currant money of~ America the goods & Chattells of the Said John Lux and after the Said delony com[mitted] the Said Sume of thirty Shillings did take and receive of~ the [Said] Charles Hill against the peace of our Lord proprietor his rule and |
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