Chancery Court Proceedings, 1672.   381







    Said Court against you the Said Richard Ladd & Rosamond his LiberCD
    wife & others defend.t to be Relieved ag.st a Suit at Common Law
    by you Commenced upon a Bond of Seven thousand Six hundred
    Sixty one pounds of Tobacco w.ch Said Bill the plant Suggesteth was
    Entred into onely for a Colleteriall Security of the Said Horsley
    against another Bond wherein the Said Joseph Horsley Stood Joyntly
    bound the plt to one Henry Johnson for a Certain debt then due
    to the Sd Henry Johnson from the p.It & that the p.lt was not other
    wise Indebted to the S.d Horsley, And Whereas Indeed the Said
    Horsley never paid any of the Said debt to the Said Henry Johnson
    we willing that Justice be Equally distributed & takeing these things
    into our Consideration do hereby Charge & Strictly Comand and
    firmly Injoyn you Richard Ladd & Rosamond his wife & you his
    Attorneys Agents and Sollicitors and Every of you under the pain
    of Two hundred pounds Sterling to be levied of the Goods and
    Chattells Land & Tenements of you and Every of you to our use p.
    that you and Every of you do from henceforth Imediatly Stay (fol. 580)
    Surcease and forbear all further prosecutions whatsoever against
    the       upon the Suit upon the bond afores.d untill you the
    Said defendants Shall directly answer the p.lts Bill & Set forth the
    full truth of the matter and this Court take order to the Contrary
    Wittness &c the day of Aprill in the xxxx.th year of our Domin
    ion over our Said Province Annoq Domini 1672

      James Nuthall Sp.a in Canc. versus Kenelm Cheseldyne ret Ime
    diate Dat 13.th Aprill 1672

      Caecilius &C To the Sheriff of Baltemore County (fol 581)
    Command thee that thou attach Thomas Howell
    Palmer and Johanna Gouldsmith So that thou have
    in our Court of Chancery upon the first day of
    Provinciall Court To be held at our City of S.t maries
    Eleventh day of June next to Answer unto us as we
    Certain Contempt by the Said Thomas Howell Geo
    W.m Palmer and Johannah Gouldsmith done as it is Said as
    all other things that Shall then and there be objected against them
    & further to do and Receive what our Court Shall Consider of in
    that behalf and of this thou Shall no ways omitt and have then
    there this Writt Wittness &C dated the 15.th day of Aprill in the 40.th
    year of our Dominion over our Said Province Annoq Domini 1672

      Caecilius &C To the Sheriff of Baltemore County Greeting We
    Comand you that by the Oaths of Twelve Honest and Law full men
    of your County by whom the truth of the matter may be better
    known diligently thou Enquire if it be to the damage of us or others
    if we Grant to Jacob Young of Baltemore County Gent ten acres of
    Land in Susquehanough River at the Land Called Perry Point in