442        Chancery Court Proceedings, 1674.

       Liber p c  the meadowes ought to be revoked and adnulled and the same into
              the hands of his said Lopp Ought to be Seized because he saith that
              long before the takeing up of the said Land by him the said Thomas
              Gerard the said Lord Proprietary the same Land had reserved for
              his Owne proper Use and did by his instructions to his Governour
              there make knowne the same who did publish and declare the same
              to his Lopps said Council and his Lopps Surveyour Genll of the
              said Province which was sufficient notice of his said Lopps reserve
              as well to the said Thomas Gerard as all other the Inhabitants of
              his Lopps said Province and that the said foure hundred acres of
              Land called the meadowes is part of his Lopps said Mannour of
              Chaptico and within his Lopps said reserve And as to the remaining
              part of the said plea that the said reserve was not entred upon
              record it Ought not to debarre him the said Lord Proprietary from
              causeing the letters pattents aforesaid to be vacated it being the laches
              and negligence of his Officers which Ought not nor cannot prejudice
              him the said Lord Proprietary and that no prescription of time
              can anyway prevaile against him the said Lord Proprietary and that
              he is ready to averr and thereupon demands judgment and the
              defendant likewise.
                Whereupon it was Considered by the Court that the aforesaid
              Letters pattent of his said Lordship the Lord Proprietary shall be
              revoked cancelled evacuated adnulled and for void and invalid had
              and esteemed and also that the inrollment of Record of them shall
              be cancelled and adnulled and for void and invalid held and esteemed.

              Tobias Wells Complainant the parties Complainant and defts
                     agt          appeareing this cause comeing to a
              John Wright & Mary his wife heareing in the presence of the At-
              admrs Barth: Gleven defts tornyes On both sides the Complaints
              bill and replication and the defts answer being Openly read and
              heard and by the Court considered of the Court was cleerely satisfied
              that the Quietus in the defts answer pleaded in barr against the
              Complainants bill of Complaint for the summe of fourteene thou-
              sand three hundred and seaventeen pounds of tobacco due by recog-
              nizance from the said Bartholomew Glevin deceased to the Complt
              was not a Sufficient discharge of the defts against the Complainant
              but that the same ought first and primary to have bin satisfied before
              debts of a lower nature and therefore upon examination of accompts
              by the Court here the deft haveing produced severall bills notes and
              receipts in discompt of the said summe to the value of five thousand
              six hundred fifty One pounds of tobacco and by the Complainant
              allowed of the Court doe hereby Order and decree that the said John
              Wright & Mary his wife doe pay to the Complainant as well the
              summe of eight thousand six hundred sixty six pounds of tobacco the
              remainder of the said Summe of fourteene thousand three hundred