216   Chancery Court Proceedings, 1678.





        Liber C D  Chancery in a Cause there depending between Tobias Wells p.It
               & John Wright & mary his wife adm.rs of Bartholomew Glevin deced
               def.ts bearing date twelfth day of may in the forty Second year
               of the Dominion of our late father Caecilius &c The Cause Comeing
               then to be heard in the presence of the Attorneys on both Sides the
               Comp.lts Bill & Replication & the defendants Answer pleaded openly
               Read & heard & by the Court Considered of the Court was Clearly
        (fol. 214) Satisfied that the Quietus est in the defendts Answer pleaded in
               Barr ag.t the Comp.lts Bill of Comp.lt for the Sume of fourteen
               thousand three hundred & Seventeen pounds of Tobacco due by
               Recognizance from the s.d Batholomew Glevin deed to the Comp.lt
               was not a Sufficient discharge of the Defendants ag.t the Comp.lt
               but the Same ought first & primarily to be Satisfied before debts of a
               Lower nature & thereupon Examination of Accompts by the Court
               the def.ts having produced Severall Bills notes and Receipts in dis
               charge of the S.d Sume to the value of five thousand Six hundred &
           p. 177 fifty one pounds of Tobacco & by the Comp.tt allowed of The Court
         (fol. 214) did thereby order and Decree that the Said John Wright and mary
               his wife do pay to the Comp.lt as well the Sume of Eight thousand
               Six hundred Sixty and Six pounds of Tobacco the Remainder of
               the Sd Sum of fourteen thousand and three hundred & Seventeen
               pounds of Tobacco as also the Sum of Six thousand pounds of
               Tobacco for his Costs & damages in this behalf Sustained w.ch Said
               Sume in the whole doe amount unto the Sume of fourteen thousand
               Six hundred Sixty & Six pounds of Tobacco To be by the Said
               John Wright and mary his wife paid to the Said Tobias Wells with
               w.ch Said Decree the Said John Wright and mary his wife had been
               divers times duehy Served & demand Severall times made of the Said
               Sume of fourteen thousand Six hundred Sixty & Six pounds of
               Tobacco decreed as afores.d Yet the S.d Jn.° Wright & mary his wife
               had Refused to pay the Same or Give Obedience to the Said Decree
               as by the affidavit thereof made may appear whereupon Severall
               process of Contempt Issued out of our Sd Co.rt ag.t the Said John
               Wright & mary his wife to the late Sheriff of Kent decd directed to
               inforce a performance of the Said Decree but before the Said John
               Wright Could be taken upon the Same he dyed after whose Death
               an attachm.t issued out of our Sd Court ag.t the S.d mary alone the
               adm.r of Glevin being for the debt of Glevin upon w.ch attachm.t to
               him also directed you he had returned that he had taken the body
               of the Said mary & that she was Languishing in prison Whereupon
               the Justices of our Said Court did order that a Sequestracon Should
               issue ag.t the Estate both Reall and personall of the Sd Bartholomew
               Glevin and Jn.° Wright then in the possession of the Said mary as
               well all the Lands and Tenements houses and plantations as all the
               Goods & Chattells merchandizes Suths of money or Tobacco Servants
        (fol. 215) Slaves Cattle hogs Horses mares as other the psonall Estate of them