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The Entry thereof.

ss. The Sheriff was commanded, that whereas J.C. and T.D. were Summon∣ed to be in the Court of the Protector here (tali die) to answer W. G. in a Plea, wherefore they took the Cattle of the said W. and them unjustly detained against security and pledges, &c. the said W. afterward in the said Court made default, for which it was ordered in the same Court, that the said W. and his pledges for prosecuting should be in mercy, and that the aforesaid J. and T. should go thence without day, and that

they should have return of the Cattle aforesaid, whereupon the said Protector did command the said now Sheriff, that to the aforesaid J. and T. the Cattle a∣foresaid he should cause to be returned, and them at the Plaint of the aforesaid W. he should not deliver without the VVrit of the said Protector, which of the aforesaid judgement expresse mention should make, and how, &c. he should certifie to the Justices here at this day (to wit) in eight days of S. Hil∣lary, &c. and now here at this day came the aforesaid J. and T. by E. P. their Attorney, and the Sheriffe now return∣eth that before the coming of the Writ aforesaid, the Cattle aforesaid were es∣loigned unto places to him unknown, so that them to the aforesaid J. and T. he cannot return as by that Writ he was commanded, &c. therefore the Sheriffe is commanded that of the Cat∣tle of the aforesaid W. to the value of his Cattle aforesaid, first taken in Wi∣thernam he take, & them to the afore∣said

J. and T. he deliver to be detained by them, untill the Cattle aforesaid first taken he can return, and that he put un∣der security and safe pledges the afore∣said W. that he be here in 8. dayes of the Purification of the blessed Virgin Ma∣ry, to answer as well the Lord Protector for the contempt as the aforesaid J. and T. for the damages, and injuries to them in this behalf done, &c.