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March Court
1737
216 probable Cause did cause and procure to be witt writt containing this false matter following to witt that he the said Peter by the name of Peter Taylor late of Somerset County planter the twenty first day of December in the year of our Lord God one thousand seven hundred and thirty six at the Court house at deviding Creek in the County af.d one dark bay Colered Gelding being the proper goods and Chattles of the said John Evans with force and arms unlawfully did take and Imprison and the same Gelding so as af.d Imprisoned being with force and arms did disfigure and from the tail of the same Gelding then and there the hair thereof did with force and arms unlawfully Cutt off to the great damage of the said John Evans and against the peace of the said Right Honourable the Lord proprietary that now is his good Rule and Goverment which same bill so as af.d writ containing the false matter af.d the af.d John Evans at the af.d Court of Goal Delivery held for Somerset County af.d in the said County the said twenty first day of december Anno Dom seventeen hundred thirty and six af.d before the Justices af.d did exhibit and to the Jurors then and there being Impannelled and Sworne to enquire for the said Lord proprietary and the body of the County af.d as a true bill of Indictment falsely and Maliciously did cause to be delivered and with an Intent that the said false Matter in the said bill contained should by the Jurors af.d be found to be true the said John Evans then and there falsely maliciously and vexatiously did cause and procure divers evidences against the said Peter upon their Corporall ^Oath^ to them by the Justices af.d duely administred to the Jurors af.d to be sworn (the same Justices then and there having full power the oaths power the oaths af.d to the same evidences to administer (Whereupon the same Jurors so as af.d charged and sworn to enquire for the said Lord proprietary and the body of the County af.d well knowing & perceiving the whole matter in the same bill Contained was false and by the same John Evans without any probable Cause falsely and Maliciously against the said Peter devised and that no such offence ever was Comitted by the af.d Peter then and there sayed upon their oath af.d before the same Justices that they of the matter in the same bill of Indictment contained were altogether Ignorant by pretext of which premisses the same Peter is greatly vxed vexed and Injured and into infamy and Contempt is brought and also great sums of money and tobacco in and about the Manifestation of his Innocency and defence of himself in the premisses to expand was obliged and Compelled to the damage of the said Peter Taylor seven thousand pounds of |
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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1737-1738
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