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March Court
1737
224 And the af.d Adam Brafford by Geo: Douglas his attorney Cometh and defendeth the force and Injury when &a and saith that he Cannot deny the action af.d of the af.d Adam Bell nor but that the writing obligatory af.d is the deed of the same Adam ^Brafford^ nor but that he oweth the same ^Adam Bell the afd^ sixty pounds Currt money in manner and form as the af.d Adam Bell above against him declared Therefore it is Considered ^that^ the af.d Adam Bell recover against the af.d Adam Brafford his debt af.d and his damages by occasion of the detention of the same debt to two hundred & ninety five pds of tob.o to the same Adam Bell of his assent by the Court here adjudged and the afd Adam Brafford in mercy &a And afterwards to witt the twenty first day of march ann Dom One thousand Seven hundred and thirty Seven Came hereinto Court the afd Adam Brafford in his proper person and thereupon the said Adam Brafford is Committed into the Custody of the Sheriffe of the County afd to be by him safely keep thereto remain untill the said Adam Bell of his debt and damages afd should be full satisfyed &a the plft releaseth the panalty reserving principall debt and Interest untill payment &a
And Whereupon the said Adam by Robert Jenckins Henry his attorney says that whereas the said Mathias on the thirteenth day of June Anno Dom MDCCXXXvij at the County af.d by his Certain writing obligatory which the said Adam sealed with the seal of the said Mathias hereinto Court brings whose date is the same day and year af.d did acknowledge himself to be held and firmly bound to the said Adam in the said sixty pound Currt money af.d to be paid to the said Adam his Ex.rs &a when thereunto required Nevertheless the said Mathias the said sixty pounds to the said Adam hath not rendred but the same to him to render hitherto hath denyed and still doth deny and unjustly detain altho' thereto afterwards to witt on the first day of march in the year af.d at the County af.d and often since that time by the said Adam |
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