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paid off discharged and Cancelled but with respect to the other two bonds mentioned in the said Complainants Bill of Complaint to Radacaunt Chuckerbutty and Bulloobycaunt Doss, this Defendant Saith that he never was indebted to them or either of them in one Sicca Rupee until the said Complainant represented to this Defendant that the said Radacaunt Chuckerbutty and Bulloobycaunt Doss were pressing him for Money he owed them on Bond and Mortgage and had actually put their Demands in the Hands of their respective attornies the first in the hands of Mr. Smoulth who issued Execution and Seized the Lands of the Complainant and the Second into the hands of Mr. Hickey or Mr. Turner Clerk to the said Mr. Hickey who threatened him with a similar Proceeding and this Defendant being desirous of [ILL] the said Complainant and his Property from destruction first gave his Bonds jointly with the said Complainants to those two Men and afterwards paid off and discharged the whole of the Principal Interest and Costs due thereon which Bond and Securities for Money are now in this Defendant’s hands ready to be produced to this Honourable Court. This Defendant further answering Saith he hath attentively procured an office Copy of an affidavit made on this Cause by the said Complainant and a person calling himself Mohobaurute Shaw and positively Saith he never to his knowledge saw the said Mohobaurute in his life nor did now any person of that name