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454 Chancery Court Proceedings, 1675. Liber P C might be Legally discharged of their trust and be for ever hereafter ptected Indempnified & Saved harmlesse by ye Decree of this Court against their bond without which decree they humbly conceived it would not be Safe for them to Doe The Same not being to come to the Said Ann till her Age of eighteene Years and in case of her death before that time the estate being by Will otherwise Lirnittcd & appointed or if this court should not think fitt to take the Said Estate out of their hands till her arrivall to the Said Age of Eightene Years shee being now but Sixteene years old they were & should be willing out of the Said Estate to allow the Comp.lts Such Reasonable allowance for the mayntenance of the Said Ann Since her Marriage and till shee Come to eightene Years of Age as this Court shall p. 71 allow of they being indemnified as aforesd as by the Said bill answerr & other prceedings uppon the Same Remaining of Record in the Secretaries office Relacon being thereunto had may more plainly appeare And the Said cause So standing att yssue uppon bill & answer A Day was by this Court Appointed for hearing thereof on which Day being the eleaventh Day of december in the year of our Lord 1674 This cause coming to a hearing in the prsence of the Said .pts Richard & all the defts & other Attorneys in this cause uppon Reading of the Said bill and answer and the will of the Said Coll John Price this court was ffully Satisfied with the Ability of the Said comp.lts to manage their owne Estate themselves and that it was Just and Reasonable that they should have posscon thereof to Im- prove the Same for the best for their future livelyhood doe thinke fitt & itt is this prsent Day that is to Say on the Eleaventh Day of December in the 43th Yeare of the Dominion of Caecilius Absolute Lord & Propry of the Provinces of Maryland & Avalon Lord Baron of Baltemore &c Annoq doth 1674 By the Right Hono.ble Charles Calvert Esq Cheife Justice in Equity the Hono.ble the Chancellor and the Rest of their Associates Justices of this Court Ordered Ad- judged & Decreed that the Said Severall def.ts doth forthwith pay or cause to he paid to the Said comp.lts Richard & Ann Hatton the Said Sume of twenty thowsand ffive hundred & ffifty pounds of tobacco in the Said acc.t menconed as also that they doe forthwith delivr unto the Said complts or their order the like quantity & Stock of Catle horses hoggs & goods in the Said acc.t menconed according to Age & number or full Satisfaccon for the Same according to the true intent & meaning of the condiëon of ye Said bond of Eighty thowsand pounds of tobacco entred into as aforesaid and that the Receipt or other Legall discharge or Release under the hands and Seales of the Said Comp.lts shall be their Sufficient discharge for the Same tobacco goods & Stock of catle & hoggs aforesaid and against the Said bond of eighty thowsand pounds of tobacco And it is also further ordered & Decreed that the Said Defdts Doe also forthwith Quitt the posession of the Lands Plantacons & prmisses in |
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