Luke Luce v Nicholas Searle and George Withers: money matters, Middlesex. Bill and answer
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Humbly complaining showeth unto your Honors your Orator Luko LUCE of London Merchant, that whereas one James SEARLE late of Lincolns Inn in the County of Middlesex Esquire together with //
John PARKEN by their obligation dated the three and twentieth day in the year of our Lord God 1640 became bound unto your Orator LICLO LUCE in the penal sum of one hundred pounds for //
Payment of fifty pounds at the end of three Months after the date of the said bond with interest for the same. But the said James SEARLE nor the said John PARKEN did at the time limit [?] the //
Said condition of the obligation at any time since pay or cause to be paid the said sum of fifty pounds on any part thereof or the interest due for the same But the said money being so //
Altogether unpaid the said James SEARLE being seized of lands of inheritance of a very great yearly value and also possessed of a very great personal estate estate in money debts goods [?] //
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All his the said James SEARLE debts with a great surplus did about years since make his Last Will and Testament in writing and thereof made Nicholas SEARLE his brother and one George WITHERS //
His brother in law his executors and being so seized …
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Of him the said testator with a great over plus. But now so it may please your Honors that the said Nicolas SEARLE and George WITHERS well knowing that the said James SEARLE //