396   Chancery Court Proceedings, 1671.





         Liber P C John Robinson pit
      This business being the last Court by
                  agt Consent of the partyes on both sydes re
               Benjamin Rozer & defts  ferred unto M.r Thomas Notley and M.r
               Thomas SpriggThomas Lomax who were desired to Ex
               amine State and Audit the whole busines and to make report to this
               Court here this day how they found it as by the said ordr relation
               being thereunto had more fully doth appeare, by virtu of which said
               order of this Court the said Thomas Notley & Thomas Lomax made
               this Ensueing retonne on the backside of the said order & Exhibited
               the same into Court this day (vizt)
                By virtu of the within ordr wee the within named Thomas Notley
               and Thomas Lomax have veiwed Examined stated and audited the
               whole busines within mentioned. And thereupon doe humbly prsent
               unto this honoble Court this our Reporte in manner and forme fol
               lowing (vizt).
                Wee finde due to the Complt from Edward Richardson upon the
               Account of the Copartnershipp (all private debts Reciprocally be
               tweene them being defalcated and fully discompted) the Just sume
               of Tenne Thowsand Eight hundred and ninety pounds of Tobacco.
           p. 19   Secondly Wee doe reporte that the Complt ought to beare his pro
               portion of what bad Debts (if any there be) relating to the said
               Copartnershipp. Given undr our hands the sixteenth day of October
               in the fortieth yeare of the Dominion of the Right hono :ble Caecilius
               &c over this Province and in the yeare of our Lord 1671.
                                               Thomas Notley.
                                               Thomas Lomax.

                Upon wch foregoing Reporte of the Said Mr Thomas Notley, and
               Mr Thomas Lomax being read in open Court and mature Delibera
               tion being had thereupon by the justices of the said Court
                It is this day ordered that the Defendt Rozer, Keepe what Tobacco
               he hath in his hands untill the next Cort, and then that he bring in an
               account of what bad Debts their are belonging to the Copartnershipp,
               and that the Complt and his Attorney be then prsent to make their
               Exceptions, against the said Rozers account, that the Justices of this
               Court perusing the same, and hearing what both partyes can alledge
               may doe therein as to Justice apperteynes.

              John Stone The writ of Diminution beinge Retorned the first
                  agt day of this Court & the proceedings of the Comrs
               Samuel Cressy of Charles County betweene ye Said ptyes. It is
               by the Court ordered That time be given to the Attorney of Stone,
               to assigne his errors untill the first day of the next Court.