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121 Wee therefore comand you that by good & lawful men of your bailywick you make known & give warning to the said Justinian Gerard that he be & appeare before us in our Court of Chancery the eighteenth day of this instant June wheresoever itt shall be holden to shew cause if any he hath why the said Letters Patent for the said land so surreptitiously obtained ought not to be revoaked adnulled & made void upon Record & the same into our hands be seized & made and upon Record & the same into our hands be seized & to doe & receive what our said Court shall consider of in this behalfe And in what manner you execute this p.rcept you make known unto us the day aforesaid & have you there this writt wittnes our selfe att the Citty of S.t Maryes the seaventeenth day of June in the third yeare of our Dominion &c Annoq Dm 1678 Att which said Eighteenth day of June in the yeare aforesaid the same Sheriffe maketh returne of the p.rcept aforesaid endorsed that by vertue thereof he had made known unto Justinian Gerard before Henry Bonner and John Heard good & lawfull men of his bailywick that he should make his personall appearance here att the day and place aforesaid as by the said p.rcept he was comanded Whereupon the said Justinian Gerard being solemnly called appeared by Nehemiah Blakiston his Attorney And whereupon Kenelm Cheseldyn Esq.r his Lordpp Attorney Gen.ll on the behalfe of his Lordpp offered himselfe against the said Justianian Gerard and desired that the Patent aforesaid for the reasons aforesaid should be adnulled vacated & made void And the said Justinian Gerard by his Attorney aforesaid ^said^ nothing in barre thereof alleadgeth but the said Patent so surreptitiously obtained as aforesaid to this Court delivered & surrendred Whereupon after due & mature consideracon had & taken of & upon the p.rmisses And the said Patent & Certificate of Resurvey being duely pondered & considered this Court doe order adjudge & decree the said Patent & all and singuler the entryes thereof to be null & void to all intents & purposes whatsoever And that the same Patent be imediatly cancelled in open Court by the Hon.ble Philip Calvert Esq.r Chancelour of this Province & that the entryes thereof be vacated upon Record And the same binde into his Lordpps hands to be seized Which said Patent was in open Court by the said Chancelour cancelled & made void according to the order and degree aforesaid Edward Williams The partyes Comp.lt & defend.t appearing by theire ag.t Attornyes & this cause comeing to a hearing in the Bruen Radford p.rsence of the Attornyes on both sides And the bill and Replicaccon of the Comp.lt & the Answer & Rejoynder |
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Chancery Court, Chancery Record, 1671-1712
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