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369 March Court 1717 Chester in Said County to Answer unto John Burridge & Company of a plea that he render them the full and just Sume of Seventeen hundred fifty pounds of good Sound Merchantable leafe Tobacco and Cask of the value of Seventeen pounds Sterling money which from them he unjustly detains &ca. 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 of 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 viz. Cepi Corpus pr Simon 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 foll< s vizt. Kent County Ss William Ringgold of Kent County Planter alis Dics Wm Ringold of Kent County in the Province of Maryland Plantr. was Summoned to answer unto John Burridge & Company of a plea that he render them the full and just Sume of Seventeen hundred fifty pounds of good Sound Merchantable Leafe Tobacco and Cask of the value of Seventeen pounds Sterling money which from them he unjustly detains &ca. And that he have then and there the Said writ &ca. And Where: :upon the afd Plts. by Thomas Bowne their Attry Saith that whereby the afd Deft by his certain Bill obligatory made Sealed and as the deed of the Said Deft~. to the Said Plts. the Twenty nineth day of June in the Year of our Lord Christ one Thousand Seven hundred and ffifteen at St. Pauls Parish in Kent County afd within the Jurisdiciõn of this Court delivered which the afd Plts with the Seale of the Deft afd Sealed here brings into Court did Acknowledge himselfe to be bound unto the afd Plts in the afd full and just Summe of Seventeen hundred fifty pounds of good Sound Merchantable leafe Tobacco and Cask of the afd value of Seventeen pounds Sterling money to be paid unto the afd Plts. Convenient~ in Kent County at or upon the tenth . day of November Ensuing the date afd yet the afd Deft~ altho’ often required the afd Sume of Seventeen hundred and fifty pounds of Tobacco unto the Said Plts. nor any of them hath not paid but that to them or any of them to pay the Said Deft~ hitherto hath denied and Still doth denie and unjustly detain to the damage of them the Said Plts thirty pounds Sterling money and thereupon they bring Sute &ca TBowne pr Querr pls: Jno Doe & Richd Roe and the Said Deft~. by John Johnson his attry. appeared to the above . accõn And the Court gives rule to the afd Deft~ to plead in two hours . otherwise Judgment to be rendered for want of~ the Same after which the |
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