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March Court
1723
171 Condemned according to act of assembly to and for the Use of a Certain Robert Martin unless the said William Gilchrist and Thomas Brown by themselves or their attorney shall appear and answer unto the said Robert Martin in a plea of trespass upon the Case &c according to Law and that by good and Lawfull men of your Bailiwick you make Known unto the person or persons in whose hands you make the same attachm.t that he she or they be and appear before the Justices of our Said Court to be held as afd to shew Cause if any he she or they have why the same goods Chattells Rights or Creditts so attached in his her her or their hands ought not to be Condemned and Execution thereof had and made according to the form of the act of assembly in that Case made and provided if to him her or them it shall seem mete and how you shall Execute this writt that you make Known unto Our Said Justices at the day and place afd and have your then and there this writt Witness Charles Ballard Gent Chief Justice of our Said Court the 24 day of march in ye Eight year of our Dominion &c Ann Dom 1722 A F (Allen) Thomas Hayward Cler Att which said third tuesday of June to witt the Eighteenth day of the same month ann Dom one thousand seven hundred and twenty three being the day of the return of the said Writt Comes the said Robert Martin by William Tazewell his attorney and the sherr of Somersett County to whom the foregoeing writt was directed Likewise Comes and makes Return thereof to the Court here Endorst in these words following viz.t To the worshipfull Justices within mentoned I humbly Certifie that I have attached in the hands of Francis Allen as the goods and Chattells of the within Named William Gilchrist and Thomas Brown to the value of two pounds Eight shillings and six pence and I further Certify that I have given Notice unto the said Francis Allen that he be and appear at the time and place within Contained to shew Cause &c before John Doe & Richard Roe good & Lawfull men of my Bailywick as by the within Writt I am Commanded Jos McClester Sher And the said Francis Allen in his Own proper person Comes and defends the force and Injury when &c and prays Leave to Imparle hereunto untill the next Court and he hath it and the same day is given to the plft also Att which said next Court to witt the twentieth day of August Ann Dom One thousand seven hundred and twenty three Come again as well the said plft by his attorney afd as the said deft in his Own proper person and ye said deft in his own proper person prays further Leave to Imparl hereunto untill the next Court and he hath it and the same day is given to the plft also Att which said next Court to witt the Ninteenth day of November Ann Dom One thousand seven hundred and twenty three Come again as well the said plft by his attorney afd as the said deft in his own proper person and the said deft in his own proper person prays further Leave to Imparle hereunto untill the next Court and he hath it and ye same day is given to ye plft also Att which said next Court to witt the seventeenth day of march ann.o Dom one thousand seven hundred and twenty three Comes again as well the said plft by his attorney afd as the said deft in his own proper person and the said deft in his own proper person as Before defends the force & Injury when &c and saith that the afd Robert Condemnation of two pounds Eight Shillings and Six pence or any part thereof in his hands attached as the goods and Chattells of the afd Gilchrist and Brown ought not to have because he saith that at the time of the Laying of the attachm.t afd he had not nor at any time since hath had any goods or Chattells of the afd Gilchrist and Brown in his hands or was in any wise to them Indebted and this he is ready to verifie wherefore he prays Judgm.t if the said Robert Condemnation of the premisses or any part thereof so as afd attached in his hands thereupon Ought to have &c F Allen in Psona Whereupon the said Robt (Francis) |
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