Chancery Court Proceedings, 1673.  107

       Spa John Wright to appear in Chancery the tenth of ffeb: next to Liber C D
      hear Judgem.t int him & Jonathan Hopkinson Comp.It dated the Six
      and Twentieth of November 1673:

       Sp.a Richard Hill of Annarundell Co.ty to appear Imediately to Test (fol. 117)
      for Toby Wells ag.t John Wright defend.t dated 26.th November
      1673

       A Writt Diem Clausit Extr for the Estate of Hopkin Davis late
      of Talbot County deced Directed to Jonathan Sybry and William
      Coursey Dated the 11.th of December 1673.

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       Cæcilius &c To the Sheriff of Talbot County Greeting Whereas
      We did by our Letters patents under our Great Seale of our Prov-
      ince of Maryland bearing date y.e Twentieth day of Jan.ry in the
      36.th year of our Dominion over our Said province Annoq Dom
      1667 for the Considerations therein named Grant unto John Ed-
      mondson of Talbot County in our Said province of maryland mer-
      chant a parcell of Land Called Richardsons ffolly, Lying in Talbot
      County on the South Side of Choptanck River above the Second
      Turning of the Riv.r Cont.a & then Laid out for one thousand acres
      more or Less as by our Said Grant Remaining upon Record Relation
      being thereunto had more fully & more at Large it doth and may
      appear. Now for that We have been Informed that the Said Land
      had been before that time Surveyed for another person who never
      made Good Rights for the Same whereby the Said Land became
      Elapsed unto us and So was not free for any person to take up
      according to our Conditions of plantation by virtue of any Common
      Warrant. So that the Sd Grant of ours to the Said John Edmondson
      was unduly and Surreptitiously obtained We do therefore Command
      you that by Good and Lawfull men of your Bailywick you make
      known & Give Warning to the Said John Edmondson or any other
      psop that is in possession of the S.d Land or any p.t thereof that he
      & they be before us in our Court of Chancery the tenth day of ffeb.ry
      next wheresoever we Shall then be to Shew Cause if any they have
      wherefore the Said Letters patents of the af.d Land as af.d made
      ought not to be Revoaked and adnulled and the Same into our hands
      be Seized, and to do and Receive what our s.d Co.Tt shall do or
      Grant to be done in this behalf & how you Shall Execute this process
      that you make known to our said Court at the day af.d & have you
      there this Writt Wittness &c y.e 11.th day of Dec.r in y.e 42 year of o.r
      Domn ov.r O.r Said province Annoq Domini 1673

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       Idem ad Sher Charles County to make known to the heirs of
      Walter Beane deceased to Shew Cause if a patent to the s.d Beane