Chancery Court Proceedings, 1674.  443

     and Seventeene pounds of tobacco as also the summe of Six thou- Liber P C
     sand pounds of tobacco for his costs and damages in this behalfe
     susteined which said summes in the whole doe amount unto the
     summe of fourteene thousand six hundred sixty six pounds of
     tobacco to be by the said John Wright & Mary his wife paid to the
     said Tobias Wells.
     Jonathan Hopkinson Complt     The parties Complainant and p. 58
             agt            defts appeareing and this cause
     John Wright & Ri: Snowden defdts comeing to a heareing in the
     presence of the Attorneys on both sides and the bill and replication of
     the Complt and defts answer & all other papers touching the same
     were openly read and heard and by the Court considered off and
     the Court is fully satisfied that the Patent Granted the deft Wright
     for six hundred and forty acres of land called Bingley in the Compits
     bill of complaint mentioned ought to be delivered up cancelled and
     made void upon record, And doe hereby Order and decree that the
     said pattent for the said parcell of land called Bingley be delivered
     up by the said John Wright and cancelled adnulled and vacated upon
     record, and that the defdt John Wright pay to the Complainant Jona-
     than Hopkinson the full quantity of three thousand five hundred
     pounds of tobacco for his costs in this behalf e laid Out and also that
     the said Richard Snowden repay to the Complainant the summe of
     three thousand pounds of tobacco.

       Comand was given to the sheriff of st Maries County that by
     good and lawfull men of his Bailiwick he make known unto John
     Nichols that he be and appeare before his Lopps justices the 14th
     day of April last past to shew cause if any be had why the Letters
     pattent of a parcell of land called Tinkerly or Wickahandyck con-
     taineing 350 Acres to him granted should not be vacated upon record
     and patent of confirmation for the sume be granted to William
     Pritchett Sonne and heire of John Pritchett deceased and the same
     Sheriff saith that he hath made known to the said John Nichols
     that he be and appeare at the day aforesaid but the said John Nichols
     came not but made default, day was then given him untill this Court
     but the said John Nichols came not therefore Ordered and decreed
     by the Court here that the aforesaid Letters pattent of the said
     Lord proprietary shall be revoaked cancelled evacuated adnulled
     and for void or invalid had and esteemed and also that the inroll-
     ment of record of them shall be cancelled and adnulled and for void
     2nd invalid held and esteemed and that pattent of Confirmation
     thereof be granted to William the Son and heire of the said John
     Pritchett