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82 Provincial Court Proceedtings, 1677. Liber N N Speakeing hereunto untill next Provinciall Court and it is granted him the same day is given to the said Mary Clements. p. 363 Att which said next Provinciall Court to witt the fifth day of Octo ber in the yeare 1677 Came the said Mary Clements by her said Attorny & offered herself e against the said John Cocke in the plea aforesaid but the said John came not but made default Whereupon it is granted by the Court here that the said Mary recover against the said John Cocke aswell the summe of Seaven thousand pds of tobacco the debt aforesaid as also the summe of five hundred & sixty pounds of tobacco costs of suite & the said John Cocke in mercy &c. Samuel Raspin John Allen late of Charles County Gent otherwise agt called John Allen of Charles County merchant was John Allen sumoned to answer unto Samuel Raspin of a plea that he render unto him the just quantity of four teen thousand eight hundred fifty One pounds of tobacco which to him he oweth & unjustly deteineth And whereupon the said Samuel by Kenelm Cheseldyn his At torny saith that whereas the said John Allen the 8th day of Septem ber 1675 by his certaine writeing Obligatory Sealed with the Seale of him the said John and here in Court produced whose date is the day & yeare abovesaid did acknowledge himselfe holden & firmly bounden unto the said Samuel for the Use of Mr George Ramsden & Company merchants in Yorke in the Kingdome of England in the full & just quantity of fourteene thousand Eight hundred fifty One pounds of good Sound merchantable leafe tobacco in caske to be paid unto him the Said Samuel Raspin for the use aforesaid to his or their heirs executrs admrs or assignes at or before the tenth day of October next ensueing the date thereof in some convenient place in Charles County aforesaid for which paymt well & truly to be made he did bind himselfe his heirs executT8 & admrs firmly by those prsents. Notwithstanding which the said John Allen the said sume of fourteene thousand Eight hundred fifty One pounds of tobacco to him the said Samuel though often thereunto required according to the tenor of the said writeing Obligatory hath not paid but the same to pay hath denyed & refused & Still doth refuse & deny to pay the same Whereupon the Said Samuel saith he hath losse & damage to the value of five & twenty thousand pounds of tobacco And there upon he bringeth his suite And the said John Allen by John Jones his Attorny cometh & defendeth the force and injury when &c & prayeth liberty of Speake ing hereunto untill the next Court & it is granted him the same day is given to the said Samuel Att which next Court to witt the Eighth day of October Anno Doth 1677 Came the said Samuel by his Said Attorny & offered him- |
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