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394 March Court 1719 Leafe Tobacco Clear of trash in good Cask of the afd value of Nine pounds Sterling money Convenient in Kent County afd when there: :unto Required Yet the afd Deft altho’ often required the afd Sume of Nine hundred pounds of Tobacco to the afd Plt hath not paid But that to him to render or pay he the Said Deft hath altogether denied & Still doth denie and unjustly detaine to the damage of the afd Plt. tenn pounds of like money afd and thereupon he brings Sute &ca. Bowne pr Querr Plds Jno Doe & Rd Roe whereupon at the Prayer of the Plt by his Attry the Deft is adjudged to give Special baile to the Accon afd and that the Sherf of Said County keep the Sd Deft in Safe Custody untill he Shall give Special baile Thereupon Ebinezr Blackiston of Said County present here in Court undertakes for the afd Christopher Knight that in Case the Said Henry Boudy Shall recover Judgmt. in the Plea afd agst. the Said Christopher Knight and that he the Said Christopher Knight Shall be therein Convict that then he the Said Christopher Knight Shall pay the Condemnation of the Court thereupon or render his body to the Custody of the Sherf of Said County in Satisfaccõn thereof or that the Said Ebenezr. Blackiston will do it for him and now at this Court to wit the 15th day of March Anno Domi 1719 the afd Deft comes and defends the force and injury when &ca. And Says that he cannot gainsay the Plt his accon afd So as afd agst him brought nor can he Say but that the Said Plt ought to Recover his debt by Occation of the premises afd with Cost of Suite which the Said Plt does not gainsay Therefore it is Considered by the Justices here the 15th day of March Anno Domi 1719 afd That the Said Henry Bowdy Recover against the Said Christopher Knight as well the Sume of Nine hundred pounds of Tobacco his Debt afd in forme afd Confessed as also the Sume of Two hundred Seventy Nine pounds of Tobacco by the Court here adjudged to him for his Costs and Charge about his Suite in this behalfe laid out and expended and the Deft in mercy &ca. Jams Smith Clk
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