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331 March Court 1717
his Said Lord Ships Justices of the next Court to be held at our Court~ house in the Town of Chester in Said County to Answer unto Jonathan Page of a plea of Trespass of the Case and that he have then and there the Said writ &ca. Att which Said next Court vizt. the Eighteenth day of March the Same Year last mentioned the day of return of Said writ Came Simon Wilmer Gent~. high Sherf of Said County and made return thereof in these words thereon Endorsed as folls vizt. Cepi Corpus pr S:Wilmer Sherf. And A Decln Being fild when Said writ Issued forth and a Copy thereof Served therewith according to Act of Assembly in Such Case made was as folls vizt. Kent County Ss John Jones of Kent County planter Stands Attaiched to Answer unto . Jonathan Page of a plea of Trespass of the Case And Whereupon the afd Plt. by Thomas Bowne his attry Complaineth that whereas the afd Deft~ the first day of May in the Year of our Lord Christ one Thousand Seven hundred and fourteen at St: Pauls Parish in Kent County within the Jurisdiciõn of this Court In Consideration that the afd Plt. at the Special instance and request of the afd Deft~ as a Boarder and Lodger and for the Space of four months then next before Lodged and boarded the afd Deft~ and found and provided for the afd Deft~ Sufficient Meat drink washing & Lodging during the Said time and other Necessarys fitting for Such a border and Lodger upon him: :Selfe Assumed and to the Said Plt~ then and there faithfully promised that he the Said Deft~. So much Merchantable Tobacco as he the Said Plt. for the afd Lodging and Boarding found & provided as afd Should reason: :ably deserve unto the Said Plt. when thereunto he the Said Deft~ Should be required would well and truly pay and Content and the afd Plt in deed Saith that he the afd Plt~ for the afd Lodging and Boarding found and provided as afd reasonably deserved the Sume of four hundred pounds of Merchantable Tobacco fo which the afd Deft~ by the afd Plt. then and there had Notice And that whereas also the afd Deft~ afterwards vizt. the fourteenth day of May in the Year of our Lord Christ one Thousand Seven hundred & fifteen at St. Pauls Parish in Kent County within the Jurisdiciõn of this Court was indebted unto the Said Plt~ in the Sume of |
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