320 Provincial Court Proceedings, 1659.

Liber
P. C. R.

The Judgm^t of the Court is, th^t the plfs Certificate ought of right
to bee preferd, & take place according to itts date. Ordered That the
plf enioy his right in the s^d Land, & haue Pattent according to Certi-
ficate for the same. W^th Costs of suite.

Re Scotch-
er's Estate
p. 288

Whereas Godfrey Bayley hath Petioned this Court in the behalfe
of Rose Scotcher Widow, That according to the Custome of this
Prouince shee haue allowed her necessary furniture for her Chamber,
before the Estate be deuided. Ordered according to the s^d Pet",
That M^r Edward Lloyd M^r Samuel Wythers, & M^r George Vtye,
choose out of the Estate of John Scotcher Deceased, (allready inuen-
torized & now exhibited in Court), such necessaries as may be reas-
onable for furnishing the Pet^rs Chamber as to them shall seeme
conuenient.

Allccck and
Slade v.
Hawkins

Whereas Samuel Allcock & Will^m Slade plfs haue petitioned this
Court agst Raph Hawkins deft, Shewing, That they bought a parcell
of Land of the deft, for w^ch they gaue their Bill, engaging themselues
thereby to pay I300^l Tob & Cask That In part of paym^t for the s^d
Land the Pet^rs haue payd allready 360^l Tob. & 3 barrells of Corne
receiued by the deft att 70^l the Barrell, Requesting, That seeing the
deft can make them noe assurance of their peaceably enioying the
same, they may haue their Tob. & Corne back againe repayd them
by the deft, & their Bill deliuered them in, to be cancelled. The deft
hauing not subscribed the Ingagem^t as is prouided for by Act of
Assembly, nor made Oath of ffidelity to his L^p according to Con-
dicons of Plantaon & proposed by his L^p; & still refusing soe to doe,
hath consequently rendred himselfe uncapable of gyuing any assur-
ance of the Land soe sold by him; or holding any other Land of or
from his L^p according to Condicons of Plantaon.
It is Ordered That the cleft repay the 36o^f Tob. & 3 barrells of
Corne (eyther the Corne or the ualew att 70^l p^r Barrell) to the Pet^rs.
And deliuer in their Bill, (w^ch is accordingly deliuered & cancelld in
Court. And the parties now possessing that Land pay the full
summe of Thirteene hund^d pownds of Tob & Cask, to his L^ps Re-
ceiuer for the use of his L^p. And the Land to bee thereuppon
graunted to them under the Create Scale of the Prouince, to be
holden of his s^d L^p.

Freeman v.
Miles

Whereas John ffreeman p^r Attornat Richard Huggins plf hath
petitioned this Court agst Thomas Miles deft Shewing, That hee
hauing bought a parcell of Land of the deft, Conteyning by Estimaon
Ten Acres, Lying on the Sowth side of Seauerne Riuer betweene the
Land belonging to Edward Dorcy & John Norwood, for w^ch hee hath
allready payd & satisfyed fiue hundred & ten pownds of Tob, (being
the price of the Land) yett can haue noe assurance thereof, his L^ps
Condicons of plantaon, being not performed by them, who first