Document 108, p 3
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| and other the Inhabitants of the sd County of Northd or some of | ||||
| them by reason of the sd Breach of the sd Covent of the sd Henry | ||||
| had sustained damages to a large amot towit to the amot of | ||||
| £20,000 which sd allegation the sd Henry then others |
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| denied and thereupon afterwds, towit, on the sd 1st day of May in | ||||
| the yr of our Lord 1788 at Cockermouth, aforesaid in the sd County | ||||
| of Cumberland, in Conson that the sd Gawen Aynsley John | ||||
| Tweddell, B Wm Wastell, had then and there, pd to the sd Hy the sum | ||||
| of £5 of lgal money of Gt Brt he the sd Hy undertook & to the sd | ||||
| Gawen Aynsley John Tweddell & B Wm Wastell then and there | ||||
| faithfully promised to pay to them the sum of £10 of like lgal | ||||
| money when he the sd Hy shod be thereunto afterwds requested if | ||||
| the sd Gawen Aynsley John Tweddell & Bacon Wm Wastell & other the | ||||
| Inhabitants of the sd County of Northd or any of them had sustained any | ||||
| Damages by reason of the sd Breach of the sd Covent of the sd Hy and the | ||||
| sd Gawen Aynsley John Tweddell & B Wm Wastell in fact say that they | ||||
| the sd G Aynsley J Tweddell& B Wm Wastell & other the Inhabitants | ||||
| of the sd County of Northd or some of them have sustained Damages by | ||||
| reason of the sd Breach of the sd Covent of the sd Hy to a large amot | ||||
| towit to the amot of 20,000 where of the sd Hy afterwds towit on | ||||
| the same day & yr last mentd at Cockermouth afsd in the County of | ||||
| Cumberland afsd had notice Yet the sd Hy not regarding his sd | ||||
| sevl promises & undertakings in manner afsd made but | ||||
| contriving and fraudulently intending Craftil and Subtilly to | ||||
| deceive and defraud the sd Gawen Aynsley John Tweddell and | ||||
| B. Wm Wastell in this respect hath not pd to them or to any of | ||||
| them the sd sum of £10 or any part thereof altho so to do | ||||
| He the sd Hy afterwds towit on the same day & yr afsd at | ||||
| Cockermouth afsd in the County of Cumberland afsd hath been | ||||
| by the sd Gawen Aynsley John Tweddell and B Wm Wastell | ||||
| requested But hath hitherto wholly refused and still doth | ||||
| refuse to pay the same whereupon the sd Gawen Aynsley | ||||
| John Tweddell and Bacon Wm Wastell say they are injured | ||||
| and have Sustained Damages to the value of |
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| thereupon our | ||||
| 20,000 and therefore they bring their Suit [?] | ||||
| J.Letteney[*] | ||||
| Plea | and the sd Henry by Wm Wilkinson his Atty comes and | |||
| 3 | ||||
Note: Issues for assizes, June-July 1788, p 3
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