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November Court
1735 (108) & year last mentioned at the County af.d & often since that time by the said John Watson the said John Aydelott was required) whereupon the said John Watson says he is the worse & damage hath to the Value of Seventeen hundred pounds of tobacco & thereof he brings Suit &.a Pledges &.a Jn.o Doe R:d Roe A Copy of the foregoing declaration was made & sent to be served on the defendant with the writt in the plea af.d according to act of assembly in such Case made and provided &.a Att which said third Tuesday of November to witt the Eighteenth day of the same month Ann: Dom: One thousand Seven hundred and thirty five being the day of the return of the same writt came the said John Watson by his attorney af.d and the Sheriff of Somerset County to whome the foregoing writt was directed likewise cometh and maketh return thereof to the court here Endorsed ^in these words following^ Viz.t Cepi Corpus declaration in time p Jos: M.cClester Sher Whereupon the said John Aydelott present herein Court in his proper person is by the same Court adjudged to give Speciall Bail to the action aforesaid Thereupon a Certain John Pope late of Somerset County planter came hereinto Court in his proper person and undertook for the said John Aydelott and assumed upon himself (Likewise the said John Aydelott assumed upon himselfe) that if in Case the said John Watson should recover Judgment in the plea aforesaid against the said John Aydelott or that the said John Aydelott should be therein Convicted that then he the said John Aydelott should pay the Condemnation of the Court thereupon or render his body in Execution of such Judgment to the prison of the Sheriff of Somerset County in satisfaction thereof or that he the said John Pope will do the same for him &.a And thereupon the said John Aydelott by Francis Allen his attorney prays that the afd John Watson may give Security for Costs in Case nonsuite be Obtained against him in the plea afd which is by the Court granted Whereupon a Certain James Martin of Somerset County Gent present here in Court in his proper person undertakes for the Said John Watson that in Case he be nonsuited in the plea afd or otherwise Legally Cast that then the said John Watson shall pay the Condemnation of the Court thereupon and all Costs accrewing thereon to the said John Watson or that he the said James Martin will do the Same for him &a And the afd John Aydelott by Francis Allen his attorney comes and defends the force and Injury when &.a and saith that he did not assume upon himself in manner and form as y.e s.d John Watson above ag.t him hath Complained and of this he puts himself upon the Country &.a And Whereupon (afterwards |
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