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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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