Chancery Court Proceedings, 1674.  441

       The Lord Proprietary Complt Day being given to both parties untill Liber P C
            agt           Fthis day to witt the twelfth day of
       Thomas Gerard deft  May in the yeare aforesaid Att
       which said 12th day of May came the said Thomas Gerard by Robert
       Carvile his Attorny and Saith that neither the Said Letters pattents
       of his said Lopp the Lord proprietary of the said foure hundred
       Acres of land called the Meadowes in forme aforesaid made to the
       said Thomas Gerard Esq ought not to be revoked and adnulled
       nor the same into the hands of his said Lopp ought to be seized
       because he saith that at the time of the takeing Up of the said Land
       by the said Thomas Gerard Esp according to his Lows Conditions
       of plantation nor at the time of the certificate of Survey nor granting
       of the said letters pattent nor a long time after there was not any
       record of any reserve made by his Lopp of any land whatsoever
       to be Surveyed and laid Out for his Lopps Use and to be called
       Chaptico Mannour of which the said foure hundred acres of land in
       the scire facias is alleadged to be part nor was there at the time
       aforesaid any legall Survey for the takeing Upp and laying Out
       for the said Lopps Use any such land as Chaptico Mannour in which
       it included the said four hundred Acres as by the said Scire facias
       as pretended nor was the said four hundred acres of land called the
       meadowes any part or parcell of the said Mannour of Chaptico
       according as the said Mannour at the time of the said Thomas
       Gerards Survey and pattent granted was laid Out and reserved But
       the said four hundred Acres of land was duly and according to his
       Lopps Conditions of Plantation taken up and pattented by the
       said Thomas Gerard Esq and by him by Indenture duly executed
       beareing date the ninth day of January 1671 for a good and valuable
       Consideration paid and secured to be paid unto him the said Thomas
       Gerard legally conveyed to and settled upon the deft Thomas Gerard
       and he by Virtue thereof is become seized in ffee of the premises
       and Ought to hold and enjoy the same according to the said In-
       denture and Pattent which pattent Ought not in Law or equity p.57
       by any private Act or instructions but what shall be Sufficient
       matter of record and ariseing before the said Certificate of survey
       made for Thomas Gerard Escp and Pattent thereupon duly Obtained
       be any wais avoided or sett aside And he is ready to averr and de-
       mands the judgment of this Court whether the said Letters Pattents
       & for the said four hundred acres of land called the Meadowes so
       as aforesaid made ought to be revoaked or adnulled or the said
       Lands seized into the hands of the said Lord Proprietary &c
        And the said Lord Proprietary by Vincent Lowe Esq his Lopps
       Attorny Genll saith that the said Letters pattent of him the said
       Lord Proprietary to him the said Thomas Gerard Esq in forme
       aforesaid granted for the said foure hundred acres of land called