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            <title>Hezekiah C. Simmons vs. Charles D. St. Vrain</title>
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            <date type="filing" when="1830-09-28">September 28, 1830</date>
            <date type="term" when="1830-11">November Term, 1830</date>
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            <caseTitle>Hezekiah C. Simmons vs. Charles D. St. Vrain</caseTitle>
            <date type="filing" when="1830-09-28">September 28, 1830</date>
            <date type="term" when="1830-11">November Term, 1830</date>
            <party role="plaintiff">Simmons, Hezekiah C.</party>
            <party role="defendant">St. Vrain, Charles D.</party>
            <causeAction type="civil">Trespass</causeAction>
            <caseNo>23</caseNo>
            <citation/>
            <court type="state">St. Louis Circuit Court</court>
            <judge/>
            <clerk>Gamble, Archibald</clerk>
            <sheriff>Walker, John K.</sheriff>
            <attorney for="plaintiff">Newman, John</attorney>
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               <title>Summons</title>
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               <p>This electronic document is published as part of the St Louis Circuit
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               <author role="clerk">Gamble, Archibald </author>             
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                  <dateline>County Of <placeName>
                        <choice>
                           
                           <orig>St. Louis</orig>
                        </choice>
                     </placeName>, Sct.<lb/> 
                     <placeName>
                        <choice>
                           
                           <orig>State of Missouri</orig>
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                        <placeName>
                           <choice>
                              
                              <orig>Saint Louis</orig>
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                     <persName>
                        <choice>
                           
                           <orig>Louis Bompart</orig>
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                     </persName> and Richard Atkinson</seg>
                  <lb/> that setting aside all manner of excuse and delay, they be and appear in proper person before the<lb/> Judge of our <orgName>
                     <choice>
                        
                        <orig>Circuit Court</orig>
                     </choice>
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                     <seg rend="form-fill-in">29th</seg> day of <seg rend="form-fill-in">March</seg>
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                  <seg rend="form-fill-in">next</seg> at the<lb/> 
                  <placeName>
                     <choice>
                        
                        <orig>City of St. Louis</orig>
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                           <orig>Hezekiah</orig>
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                           <orig>Simmons</orig>
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                           <orig>Charles</orig>
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                           <persName>
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                                 <orig>D St</orig>
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                           <orig>Vrain</orig>
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Witness, <persName>
                     <choice>
                        
                        <orig>Archibald Gamble</orig>
                     </choice>
                  </persName>, Clerk of our said<lb/> 
                  <orgName>
                     <choice>
                        
                        <orig>Circuit Court</orig>
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                  </orgName>, at the <placeName>
                     <choice>
                        
                        <orig>City of St. Louis</orig>
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                     <seg rend="form-fill-in">20th</seg>
                     <lb/> day of <seg rend="form-fill-in">February</seg> in the year of our Lord one<lb/> thousand eight hundred and thirty <seg rend="form-fill-in">two</seg>
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                           <choice>
                              
                              <orig>Archibald Gamble</orig>
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                  </signed>Clerk <abbr>C.</abbr> 
                  <abbr>C.</abbr>
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                  <dateline>
                     <date when="1832-03">March Term 1832</date>
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               <p>H. C <persName>
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                        <orig>Simmons</orig>
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                  <abbr>vs</abbr>
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                  <persName>
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                        <orig>Charles</orig>
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                              <orig>D. St</orig>
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                     <choice>
                        
                        <orig>Vrain</orig>
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                     <persName>
                        <choice>
                           
                           <orig>Louis Bompart</orig>
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                     <lb/> Richard Atkinson</signed>
                  <dateline>on <date when="1832-03-29">29th March</date>
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               <p>Served this writ<lb/> on <persName>
                     <choice>
                        
                        <orig>Louis Bompart</orig>
                     </choice>
                  </persName>
                  <lb/> on the <date when="1832-07-29">29th July<lb/> 1832,</date> 
                  <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"/> by reading<lb/> 
                  <unclear rend="written" unit="chars">
                     <supplied>it</supplied>
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                     <supplied>Rich</supplied>
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                  <lb/> Atkinson not<lb/> 
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                     <supplied>Served</supplied>
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                           <persName>
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                                 <orig>Jno K Walker</orig>
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                     <lb/> shff</signed>
Term 50<lb/> 
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                     <supplied>court</supplied>
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               <title>Complaint</title>
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               <p>This electronic document is published as part of the St Louis Circuit
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               <author role="attorney">Newman, John</author>             
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                  <dateline>In the <placeName>
                        <choice>
                           
                           <orig>St. Louis</orig>
                        </choice>
                     </placeName> Circiut Court<lb/> 
                     <date when="1830-11">November Term 1830</date>
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                     <placeName>
                        <choice>
                           
                           <orig>County of St. Louis</orig>
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                        <persName>
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                              <orig>Hezekiah</orig>
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                     <choice>
                        
                        <orig>Simmons</orig>
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                  <persName>
                     <choice>
                        
                        <orig>John</orig>
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                  <unclear rend="written" unit="chars">
                     <supplied>
                        <persName>
                           <choice>
                              
                              <orig>Newman</orig>
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                     <supplied>
                        <persName>
                           <choice>
                              
                              <orig>William</orig>
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                        </persName>
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                  <persName>
                     <choice>
                        
                        <orig>K. Rule</orig>
                     </choice>
                  </persName> and Edward Walsh as <persName>
                     <choice>
                        
                        <orig>Trustees</orig>
                     </choice>
                  </persName>
                  <lb/> of said <persName>
                     <choice>
                        
                        <orig>Simmons</orig>
                     </choice>
                  </persName> for the payment of the creditors of H. C.<lb/> 
                  <persName>
                     <choice>
                        
                        <orig>Simmons</orig>
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                  </persName>) complains of Charles D. <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"/> in<lb/> 
                  <unclear rend="written" unit="chars">
                     <supplied>custody</supplied>
                  </unclear> of a plea of <unclear rend="written" unit="chars">
                     <supplied>trespass</supplied>
                  </unclear> on the <unclear rend="written" unit="chars">
                     <supplied>case</supplied>
                  </unclear> on<lb/> 
                  <unclear rend="written" unit="chars">
                     <supplied>promise</supplied>
                  </unclear>. For that whereas the said Defendant here<lb/> 
                  <unclear rend="written" unit="chars">
                     <supplied>tofore</supplied>
                  </unclear> to wit on the <date when="1830-07-01">first day of July in the year<lb/> Eighteen hundred and thirty</date> at the <unclear rend="written" unit="chars">
                     <supplied>county</supplied>
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                     <supplied>indebted</supplied>
                  </unclear> to the<lb/> said Plaintiff in the sum of three thousand<lb/> dollars lawful money for <unclear rend="written" unit="chars">
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                        <unclear>divers</unclear>
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                     <supplied>merchandize</supplied>
                  </unclear> by the said Plaintiff before that<lb/> time sold and delivered to the said Defendant and at his<lb/> special instance and <unclear rend="written" unit="chars">
                     <supplied>request</supplied>
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                     <supplied>indebted</supplied>
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                  <lb/> he the said Defendant in consideration thereof<lb/> afterwards, to wit, are the day and year last<lb/> aforesaid at the county aforesaid, undertook and<lb/> then and there faithfully promised the said Plain<lb/>tiff to pay him the said sum of money when<lb/> he the said Defendants should be <unclear rend="written" unit="chars">
                     <supplied>thereunto</supplied>
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                     <supplied>unpaid</supplied>
                  </unclear>, and upon such accounting<lb/> the said Defendant was then adn there found<lb/> to be in arrear and <unclear rend="written" unit="chars">
                     <supplied>indebted</supplied>
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               <p>Plaintiff in the further sum of three thousand dollars<lb/> of like lawful many, and being so found in<lb/> arrear and <unclear rend="written" unit="chars">
                     <supplied>indebted</supplied>
                  </unclear> he the said Defendant in consider<lb/>ation thereof, afterwards, to wit, on the day and year<lb/> last aforesaid at the county aforesaid, undertook<lb/> and then and there faithfully promised the said<lb/> Plaintiff to pay him the said last <unclear rend="written" unit="chars">
                     <supplied>mentioned sum</supplied>
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                  <lb/> of money when he the said Defendant should<lb/> be thereinto afterwards requested. Never that <unclear rend="written" unit="chars">
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                  <lb/> the said Defendant not regarding his said several<lb/> promises and undertakings but <unclear rend="written" unit="chars">
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                     <supplied>deceive</supplied>
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                     <supplied>defraud</supplied>
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                  <lb/> the said Plaintiff in this behalf had not as yet<lb/> paid the said several sums of money, <unclear rend="written" unit="chars">
                     <supplied>or any written</supplied>
                  </unclear>
                  <lb/> of them or any part thereof to the said Plaintiff<lb/> (<unclear rend="written" unit="chars">
                     <supplied>Although</supplied>
                  </unclear> often requested so to do.) But the said<lb/> Defendant to pay him the same has hitherto<lb/> wholly negleted and refused and <unclear rend="written" unit="chars">
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                  </unclear> doth negleted<lb/> and refuse to the damage of the said Plaintiff,<lb/> who sum for the use aforesaid, of the sum of<lb/> four thousand dollars and therefore he <unclear rend="written" unit="chars">
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                        <choice>
                           
                           <orig>John Newman</orig>
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                  <dateline>The State of <placeName>
                        <choice>
                           
                           <orig>Missouri</orig>
                        </choice>
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                     <lb/> 
                     <placeName>
                        <choice>
                           
                           <orig>County of Saint Louis</orig>
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                        <supplied>sct</supplied>
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                  <salute>The Sheriff of the <placeName>
                        <choice>
                           
                           <orig>County of Saint Louis</orig>
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                     <lb/> Greeting</salute>
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                     <choice>
                        
                        <orig>Charles D St</orig>
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                        <persName>
                           <choice>
                              
                              <orig>Vrain</orig>
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                        </persName>
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                  </unclear> that he <unclear rend="written" unit="chars">
                     <supplied>be</supplied>
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                     <choice>
                        
                        <orig>Circuit Court</orig>
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                  </orgName> at the next term thereof to be held<lb/> at the city of <placeName>
                     <choice>
                        
                        <orig>St. Louis</orig>
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                  </placeName> within and for the county of <placeName>
                     <choice>
                        
                        <orig>Saint Louis</orig>
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                  </placeName> on<lb/> the fourth Monday of November next then and there to <unclear rend="written" unit="chars">
                     <supplied>answer</supplied>
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                  <lb/> unto <unclear rend="written" unit="chars">
                     <supplied>
                        <persName>
                           <choice>
                              
                              <orig>Hezekiah</orig>
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                     <choice>
                        
                        <orig>Simmons</orig>
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                     <supplied>sues</supplied>
                  </unclear> to the use of <persName>
                     <choice>
                        
                        <orig>John Newman</orig>
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               <author role="clerk">Gamble, Archibald </author>  
               <author role="attorney">Newman, John</author>
               <author role="sheriff">Walker, John K.</author>        
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                  <persName>
                     <choice>
                        
                        <orig>William K Rule</orig>
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                  </persName> and Edward Walsh as <persName>
                     <choice>
                        
                        <orig>Trustees</orig>
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                  </persName> of said <persName>
                     <choice>
                        
                        <orig>Simmons</orig>
                     </choice>
                  </persName>
                  <lb/> for the paymentof the creditors of H. C. <persName>
                     <choice>
                        
                        <orig>Simmons</orig>
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                  <lb/> on the case promised to the damage of the said plaintiff who<lb/> dues for the use aforesaid of the sum of four thousand dollars<lb/> and have you then there this writ—</p>
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Witness <persName>
                     <choice>
                        
                        <orig>Archibald Gamble</orig>
                     </choice>
                  </persName> Clerk of our<lb/> said <orgName>
                     <choice>
                        
                        <orig>Circuit Court</orig>
                     </choice>
                  </orgName> at Office this <date when="1830-09-28">Twenty<lb/> Eighth day of September One thousand<lb/> Eight hundred and thirty</date>
                  <signed>
                     <persName>
                        <choice>
                           
                           <orig>Archibald Gamble</orig>
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               <p>Executed this writ on <persName>
                     <choice>
                        
                        <orig>Charles D</orig>
                     </choice>
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                     <supplied>
                        <persName>
                           <choice>
                              
                              <orig>St Vrain</orig>
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                     <choice>
                        
                        <orig>St Louis</orig>
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                  <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"/> read</p>
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                  <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"/> 
                  <ref target="TBD">Book 6 page 132</ref>
                  <lb/> 
                  <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"/> &amp; judgement <ref target="TBD">Book 6 page <unclear rend="written" unit="chars">
                        <supplied>316</supplied>
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                        <supplied>
                           <persName>
                              <choice>
                                 
                                 <orig>A Gamble</orig>
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Service $ 1.00<lb/> 
                  <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"/>
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                        <persName>
                           <choice>
                              
                              <orig>Jno</orig>
                           </choice>
                        </persName>.</supplied>
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                  <persName>
                     <choice>
                        
                        <orig>K. 
    Walker</orig>
                     </choice>
                  </persName> 
                  <unclear rend="written" unit="chars">Shff</unclear>
                  <lb/> by <persName>
                     <choice>
                        
                        <orig>Brotherton</orig>
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                  <unclear rend="written" unit="chars">
                     <supplied>DpS</supplied>
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                  <abbr>No</abbr> 23<lb/>
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                     <placeName>
                        <choice>
                           
                           <orig>St. Louis Circuit Court</orig>
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                     <lb/> 
                     <date when="1830-11">November Term 1830</date>
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                     <supplied>
                        <persName>
                           <choice>
                              
                              <orig>Hezekiah</orig>
                           </choice>
                        </persName>
                     </supplied>
                  </unclear> C. <persName>
                     <choice>
                        
                        <orig>Simmons</orig>
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                  <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"/>$<lb/> 
                  <abbr>vs</abbr> Declaration<lb/> Charles D. <unclear rend="written" unit="chars">
                     <supplied>St. Vrain</supplied>
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                  <dateline>Filed <date when="1830-09-28">28th September 1830</date>
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                  <signed>
                     <persName>
                        <choice>
                           
                           <orig>Archibald Gamble</orig>
                        </choice>
                     </persName> Clerk</signed>
This is an action of <unclear rend="written" unit="chars">
                     <supplied>trespass on</supplied>
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                  <lb/> the case on promises Dam<lb/>-age $4000. <unclear rend="written" unit="chars">
                     <supplied>Issue</supplied>
                  </unclear> a Summons
<unclear rend="written" unit="chars">
                     <supplied>J.</supplied>
                  </unclear> 
                  <unclear rend="written" unit="chars">
                     <supplied>Newman p.q.</supplied>
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