Parker v. Champeroone

1 Rec. Co. Ct. 4

Opinion

Richard Parker of Boston plantiff ags* Cap* Francis Champeroone Abraham Corbett & Cap* Walter Barefoot Defend*3 in an Action of Debt due by bond to the sume of one hundred & fowre score pounds & due Damages for non payment according to Attachm* Dat the 30th of Sep* 1671 . . . the Jurie . . . found for the pi* the forfeiture of the bond & costs of Court & on ye Request of the defend* ye Court chancired¹ it to one hundred pounds in spetie according to bond ye Debt beeing ninety pounds

Execucion Issued 15th of 9br 1671

Footnotes

1

The earliest example of the verb “chancer” in the New English Dictionary is dated 1798. See earlier examples in the Nation, lxxiv. 12 (N. Y., 1901).