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Proceedings of the Court of Chancery, 1669-1679
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         294   Chancery Court Proceedings, 1679.





        Liber C D  person whatsoever But also that it is not fit that any Such Scandalous
               Bill Repleate with Such and So many Idle Scandalous & Criminous
               allegations & Suggestions of w.ch the S.d Comp.lt would make a
               discovery Should Remain amongst the Records of this Court ag.t
               any pson whatsoever Especially against the Said defend.t who is an
               Attorney of this Court and who thereby is Charged with the, breach
               of the Oath office and Duty of an Att.ey & w.th practices ag.t the
               Laws for Champty and Mainteynance & fraudulent Conveyances
               Do therefore Order that the Said Defend.ts Said Demurrer put into
           p.240 y.e Said Comp.lts Bill be allowed and the Said Comp.Its Said Bill
         (fol. 293) not only to Stand dismist but that the Same be by the Register of
               this Court taken from off the files & Records of this Court for Ever,
               And this Court Considering the Laudable Rules and practice of
               the high and Hon.ble Court of Chancery in England that where any
               Bill Exhibited into the Court of Chancery doth Contain in it any
               matter Criminall or Scandalous against the deft or any other and
               if it do and Concern the def.t he may refuse to Answer it and the
               Comp.It and his Councell whose hand is to the Bill may be punished
               for it and the party Grieved may Recover Costs against Such
               Councell and the Said defend.ts Attorneys praying Costs against
               m.r Thomas Bland one of the Attorneys of this Court whose hand is
               to the Said Bill & he being here present in Court and not denying
               but that he drew the Same and on the behalf of his S.d Clyent the S.d
               Comp.lt Standing in Justification of the premisses and allegacons
               Scandall & Crimes af ore Rehearsed, This Court doth order that the
               Said Thomas Bland do pay unto the Said Defend.t the Costs of Suit
               for the allowing of the Said Demurrer and Dismission of the Comp.lts
               Bill accordingly

 (fol. 294)                                Inquisition in fol 250
                 Charles &c To John Stone & William Barton of Charles County
               Gent Greeting Whereas we formerly Commanded you to Enquire
               by the Oaths of twelve Good and Lawfull men of the neighbourhood
               by whom the truth of the matter might the better be known w.ch
               were the true bounds of a parcell of Land Called Rotterdam lying
               in Charles Coty at a place Called Nanjemy that Richard Edelen the
               Deputy Surv.r might truely lay out the Same, The Said Land being
               in our actuall Legall possession by virtue of an office found the
               thirteenth day of December in the fortieth year of the Dominion
               of Caecilius our dear father of noble memory & adjudged to us in
               our Prov.ll Court the Eigth day of June one thousand Six hundred
               Seventy Six as appeareth upon Record in our Secretarys office, And
               Whereas you did upon the Eighteenth day of September in the
               fourth year of our Dominion & Impannell twelve men of the Said
               Neighbourhood to Enquire as afores.p who directed the Said Edelen
               to Begin his Survey at a Bounded Spanish oake Standing in a forke
         


 
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