Chancery Court Proceedings, 1675.  459

    the Colony of Virginia Gent to lay out the same for him in any part Liber P C
    of this province provided he should make good rights for the same
    within twelve months next ensueing the date of the said Conditionall
    warrant and in pursuanse thereof the said George Naseworthy had
    one thousand acres of land laid out for him in Manokin River
    called Naseworthys Choice lying on the South side of Manokin
    River and whereas the said George Naseworthy never made good
    rights for the same according to the tenor of the said warrant so
    granted to him as aforesaid whereby the said Land is become es-
    cheated, and for that Wm Thompson Gent without any recitall or
    mentioning of the said Conditionall warrt of the said Naseworthy
    hath by virtue of a patent Surreptitiously Obtained from his Lopp
    under the Great Seale of the provinse beareing date the first of
    October in the 40th yeare of his Lopps Dominion &c by him or
    his assigns entered into and upon five hundred acres part of the
    premisses and whereas also Thomas Jones of his said County Gent
    by assignmt of the said Naseworthy hath also procured patent for
    the said One thousand acres of land formerly surveyed for the said
    Naseworthy dated the first of October in the 4Ith yeare of his
    Lopps Dominion &c to his Lopps great prejudice and disinherizon
    of him and his heirs of the premises as it is said and that his Lopps
    may have Speedy right and justice in and concerning the same and
    that all and Singular the said Letters Patents as well to him the said
    Wm Thompson as the said letters patents to him the said Thomas
    Jones so as aforesaid granted may be revoked and adnulled and the
    said lands into his Lopps hands as his right may be seized and the
    said Wm and Thomas and all the Tenants and Occuppyers thereof
    from the possession may be amoved doe Comand the said Sheriff
    that by good and lawful men of his Bailiwick he make knowne and
    give warning to the said Wm Thompson and Thomas Jones and all
    other the Tenants and Occuppeyers of the said land that they be
    before his Lopp in his chancery the ninth day of February next to
    shew cause what for his Lopp or themselves they have or can say
    wherefore the said letters patents of the aforesaid land or any part
    or parcel thereof ought not to be revoked and adnulled and the
    record and records thereof cancelled and made void and the same
    into his Lopps hands be seized and further to doe & receive what the
    said Court shall doe or grant to be done in this behalfe & that he
    then returne to his Lopps justices how he hath executed this writ
    Wittnes &c the 30th December in the 43th yeare &c 1674
      Att which Said ninth day of ffebruary in the 43th yeare of the P.76
    Lopps Dominion &C the Same Sheriff maketh returne vizt Executed
    p me Wm. Coleborne before M.r Nicholas Rice Mr David Browne
    Mr George Johnson Mr John Winder John King Miles Gray Alex-
    ander Drapper good and lawfull men of my Bailiwick Which being
    read and heard and none appeareing to shew cause wherefore the