MRP: C10/89/61 f. 5
C10/89/61 f. 5
Editorial history
09/11/11, CSG: Created page
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See C10/89/61 f. 1
See C10/89/61 f. 2
See C10/89/61 f. 3
See C10/89/61 f. 4
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Transcription
//The joint and severall answeres of Rebecca Cole: John Cole: Augustine Newbold, and William Newbold//
//four of the Defend:ts to the Bill of complaint of Edward Gibbon complaynant//
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//after the said Thomas and Martha intermarryed, And this Def:t claymes the benefitt of the said Judgement accordingly, the same being in full force, but hath not as yet sued out any ??scire facias or//
//XXX any proceeding thereupon, or leavyed or received any money thereupon in regard shee cannot yet discover an estate of the said Thomas Hendra where with to charge the same//
//but intends to doe it so soone as shee can discover it And this Def:t is informed and beleeves that the said Judgment is entred upon the nine hundred seaventy and sixth Roll and saith//
//it is soe long since that shee doth not remember whether there was any defeasance of the said Judgm:t or not in regard shee employed and intrusted one Augustine ??Garland her brother//
//to take the same who if he be liveing is at Tangeir as she beleeves of who told this Def:t that the matter was finished so that this Def:t looked no more after it, but she cannot now find the//
//said Defeasance so that shee beleeves it is lost by meanes of the Late Dreadfull fire in London or otherwise, but the Agreement betweene her and the said Thomas Hendra was, that//
//if he should not at his death leave the sayd Martha a cleere estate of forty pounds per Ann for her life, and which shee might enjoy dureing her life that then this Def:t should have the Benefitt//
//of the said Judgment to her owne use to dispose of as shee should thinke fitt And saith she doth not yet knowe of any estate that the said Thomas hath left the said Martha And this Def:t Rebecca Cole saith//
//that although she did not lend any money to the said Thomas Hendra or any thing was due to her at the tyme of the said Judgment from the said Thomas Hendra yet in regard she gave, paid//
//and satisfyed the said Thomas Hendra w:th her owne money & estate as aforesaid she tooke the said Judgment to her owne use of as aforesaid And for further answere to the said Bill every of//
//the said Def:ts respectively for himselfe & herselfe say they know nothing of the bill in the now bill of complaint menconned to be by the complaynant exhibited in or about Hillary//
//Terme in the twentieth yeare of his Maj:ties Raigne, nor what answeres were made or put in thereunto, nor doth the same or proceedings thereupon concerne them or any of them//
//as they conceive & are advised, nor doe they or any of them know that there is such Sequestracon against the said Martha Hendra as by the bill is sett forth, nor what proceedings are//
//had thereupon And these Def:ts doe respectively for himselfe and herselfe deny all practice and combinacon laid to their charge by the said bill of complaint, nor doe//
//they or any of them know that the complaynant is a stranger to or not acquainted with the procceedings that were had betweene the ffraighters and owners in the bill//
//menconned and the said Thomas Hendra touching the goods bought for them by the said Thomas Hendra, nor doe these Def:ts or any of them knowe anything theereof or touching//
//the fraight, wages, provition or comission money or moneys due to Thomas Hendra in any sort or for any cause whatsoever, nor doe they or any of them knowe anythinge of//
//inXX Actings and doings of the said Thomas Hendra beyond the seas, and upon the seas, nor what contract was made betweene the ffraighters & owners or any of them, nor what//
//was due or oweing to the said Thomas Hendra, or to the said Martha his Administratrix after his death, nor doe they or any of them demand any thing for any goods sold or disposed//
//of ?by the said Thomas Hendra, nor did these Def:ts or any of them ??employ the said Thomas Hendra Nicholas Pepperell and Betts in the bill named or any of them for or concerneing//
//any matter in the bill menconned or intended, nor were or are they or any of them in any sort concerned therein, nor were these Def:ts or any or either of them indebted to the//
//said Thomas Hendra at the tyme of his death for any matters whatsoever, nor have these Def:ts or any of them had nor are or is to have any accompt
//menconned nor have they or any of them had or are or is to have any money matters or thing of ?fore or in respect of any matters in the bill menconned
