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247 Itt was therefore Comanded the said Sheriffe that by honest and Lawfull men of the Balliwick hee make Knowne unto the said Richard Pullen that hee should bee and appeare before the Chancello.r and the Justices of the high Court of Chancery att the Citty of S.t Maryes the six and Twentyeth day of Aprill in the sixth yeare of his said Lopp.s Dominion &c Annoq Domini 1681 To shew Cause (If any hee have) why the Pattent by him soe surreptitiously obtained as aforesaid should not be Vacated Upon Record and how hee should Execute that writt that hee should make it Knowne unto the said Justices On w.ch said six and Twentyeth day of Aprill in the yeare aforesaid Cap.t Jonathan Sybrey Sheriffe of the County aforesaid made Returne of the writt aforesaid That on the seaventh day of March 1680 hee hath sumoned the said Richard Pullen before M.r John Howell and M.r George Wardner according to the Teno.r of the said Writt Afterwards to witt the thirtyeth day of Aprill in the sixth yeare of the Dominion of the Right hono.ble Charles Lord Baltemore &c & Annoq Domini 1681 Cometh aswell the said Lord Proprietary by Kenelme Cheseldyn his Attorney Gent as the aforesaid Richard Pullen in his proper person and the said Richard saith that hee hath nothing to say for him self but that the said pattent to him granted by the said Lopp the Lord Prop.ry for the aforesaid six hundred acres of Land Called Farley is by him surreptitiously obtained and ought to be vacated upon Record Therefore Itt is Considered that the aforesaid Pattent for the aforesaid six hundred and and Fifty Acres of Land Called Farley by his said Lordspp to the said Richard Pullen granted as aforesaid Bee Vacated Adnulled and made Voyd upon Record and for voyd and invallid be Ever had and esteemed & also that the Enrolment of the Record thereof bee Cancelled and for voyd and invallied ever had and esteemed The Lord Prop.ry ag.t Comand was given to the Sheriffe of Talbot County that Whereas Francis Ralph Elston Anketill late of Calvert County gentl dec.d about Two and Twenty yeares since had surveyed for him by M.r W.m Coursey then Dep.ty Surveyo.r under Robert Clarke Esq.r a parcell of land in Talbot County for five hundred Acres Called Anketill and had a Pattent granted him under the greate seale of this Province But in the Certificate of survey that is Entred upon Record on w.ch the said Pattent is grown due (The Orriginall Certificate under the said Courseys hand not being (to |
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