452        Chancery Court Proceedings, 1675.

         Liber P C them thereunto & to Deliver upp posscon thereof & of the Said Lands
           p.68    & prmisses Devised aforesd to the comp.tth Richard & Ann in Right
               of the Said Ann or that they might have maintenance thereout they
               the Sd Comp.lts Humbly Craved the ayd & assistance of this Hono.ble
               Court & yt pcesse of Spa might be thereout awarded against the Sd
               defd.ts for them to appear & answear the Said bill To which bill of
               the Said comp.lts the Said defdts all of them appeared & put in their
               Joynt & Severall answers to the Said bill & thereby did Set forth that
               ye Said John Price did make Such will as in the bill is Set forth &
               after dyed leaving the Comp.lt Ann about two Years old after whose
               death the Defd.ts as overseers of the Said Will & Guardians to the
               Said Infant did in pursuance of the Trust in them Reposed by the
               Said John Price his will and out of a tender care they had for the
               Orphan & to prserve the Estate from being wasted they caused the
               Said Will to be proved & procured ters of Admcon to bee to them
               Comitted in pursuance of a Law then in force Intituted an act for
               prservacon of Orphans estates and by virtue thereof possed them-
               selves of the Said Deceaseds psonall estate & Stock as they could
               finde and caused the same to be Appraysed & Inventor ized & exhibited
               an Inventory thereof into the Court for Probate of wills & granting
               Admcons and tooke uppon them ye tuition & educacon of the Comp.lt
               Ann And being So in possion of ye Said decds Estate the comissiors
               of S.t Maries County did in pursuance of the Said Law for prservacon
               of Orphans Estates & the Authority thereby to them given as was
               then usuall in Such Cases Sumon the Said defd.ts to give them an
               accot of the said Estate which the Said defdts did according as by a
               coppy thereof to the Said answer annexed might Appeare amounting
               to the Sume of twenty thowsand ffivc hundred and ffifty pounds of
               tobacco which acco.t followeth in these words the acco.t of Coll John
               Prices Estate prserved by the overseers of the Said Estate the 6th
               day of September 1664 The Estate Creditors p W.m Hollingsworth
               Six thowsand pounds of tobacco p william Price p Contract ffifteene
               hundred pounds of tobacco p Anthony Griffin besides Court Charges
               ifour hundred pounds of tob W.m Palmer Exrs Seaven hundred
               pounds p Wm Watts foure hundred twenty two pounds p Peter
           p.69    Watts nine hundred pounds p ffr. Hill three hundred pounds p
               Thomas Hinto[n] two hundred Sixty two pounds p Thomas
               Bennet nine hundred & Seaven pounds p Wm Canaday one hundred
               Sixty nine pounds p ffrancis Jackson One thowsand in bedding &C
               att Daniell Clockers vallued according to Appraysem.t Seaven hun-
               dred Ditto with Joseph Bullet vallued at three hundred & ffifty p
               Mr Wm Hatton two thowsand pounds p Daniell Clocker two thow-
               sand eight hundred & Seventy p George Macall ffoure thowsand &
               p Tho: Dent Seaventy Nine pound of tobacco twenty two thowsand
               ffive hundred ffifty Six pounds tob p Thomas Dent in money two
               pounds tenn shillings Coil Prices Estate Dr 1664 p order of Court