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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1740-1742
Volume 861, Page 245   View pdf image
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           March Court                          1741                        245

Pse  Francis Allen
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GD  Edmond Hough bail of
       W.m Whittington
 His Lordship the Right Honourable the Lord proprietary of the
the Province of Maryland Commanded his Sheriff of Sommerset County by his
writt in these words following viz.t  Somerset ss  Charles absolute Lord and
proprietary of the provinces of maryland and Avalon Lord Baron of Baltemore
&c  To the sheriffe of Somerset County Greeting whereas a Certain Edmund Hough of Somerset County Gentleman in our
County Court of Somerset here (to witt) the Sixteenth day of June Anno Dom one thousand seven hundred and forty
before Robert King Esq.r and his associates then our Justices of our said Court at dividing Creek in our said County
undertook for a Certain William Whittington late of Somerset County Gent and assumed upon himself that if it should
happen that a Certain Francis Allen should recover Judgment in the said Court against the said William Whittington
in a Certain ^action in a^ plea of trespass upon the Case by the same Francis Allen against the af.d William Whittington in our
same Court prosecuted or that he same William should be therein Convict that then the said William all the damages
which to the same Francis in our same Court here in the af.d plea of trespass upon the Case that should be adjudged
he would satisfie or render his body in Execution of such Judgment to the prison of the sheriffe of the County af.d
af.d in satisfaction thereof or that he the said Edmund Hough would do the same for him and altho' the said Francis
afterwards at a Court held in and for the County af.d at dividing Creek the seventeenth day of march and year af.d
last mentioned before the af.d Robert King Esq.r and his Associates our Justices of our County Court af.d at
dividing Creek af.d by Consideration of the same Court recovered against the af.d William Whittington seventy pounds
fourteen shillings Curr.t money of Maryland and two hundred and thirty six pounds of tobacco for his damages
which the said Francis sustained by Occasion of the non performance of a Certain promise and Assumption by the af.d
William Whittington to the af.d Francis made and not performed whereof he is Convict as by the record and proceedings
thereof now remaining in our same Court before our said Justices at dividing Creek af.d manifestly appeareth  Nevertheless
the said William hath not satisfied the said Francis of his damages af.d nor rendred his body in Execution of the
Judgment af.d to the prison of the sheriffe af.d as by Information from the same Francis we have received and because
we are willing that those things which in our said Court before our Justices are rightly done should be duely Executed
thereof we Command you by good and Lawfull men of your bailywick you make Known unto the af.d Edmund
Hough that he be and appear before our Justices of our County Court of Somerset to be held at dividing Creek the third
Tuesday of March then next Following to shew Cause if any thing for himselfe he hath or to say knoweth wherefore the
af.d Francis Allen his Execution against him of the damages af.d to have ought not according to the form of the
recognizance af.d if to him it shall seem meet Expedient and have you then and there the names of them by whom
to him you make known and this Writt Wittness John Scott Gent one of our Justices of our said Court the twenty
Sixth day of November Anno Dom one thousand seven hundred and forty one
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