460        Chancery Court Proceedings, 1675.

       Liber p c  said Letters patents of the Land aforesaid ought not to be revoked
              and adnulled and the record and records thereof cancelled & made
              void, and the Same into his Lopps hands be Seized. The judgment
              of the Court here this day to witt the thirtenth day of ffebruary in
              the yeare abovesaid is That the Chancellour make void the Said
              patents upon Record and that the Same be revoked cancelled evacu-
              ated adnulled and for void and invalid had and esteemed and also
              that the enrollment of Record of them Shall be cancelled and ad-
              nulled and for void And invalid held and esteemed.

                Upon the Petition of Thomas Marsh That in the month of July
              1673 he sold unto George Utie Gent a woman Servant named Hannah
              Bowen for which Servant and other goods Sold the Said Utie was to
              pay unto the petitioner 2400 l Tobacco that in November or December
              1673 the said Hannah happened to be brought to bed of a bastard
              Child and that after she was delivered by the perswasion of the said
              Utie (who had promised to her if she would lay the Child to the
              petitioner he would Save her from a whipping and she Should fare
              the better for it as by the affidavitt of Michael ifranke and Richard
              Whitton it may appeare) by her affidavit per'd by the said Utie upon
              the 22th of December 1673 to lay the Said Bastard Child to the
              petitioner That the petitioner haveing notice thereof did in March
              last procure a warrant for Capt Howell one of his Lopps justices
              of that County to have the Said Hannah bound over to the next
              Court to be examined face to face with the petitiont Yet notwith-
              standing the pet.r attended there at the next Court with evidence
              Sufficient enough to prove the Child was gott by One Edward
              Winwood by the confessions of the Said Edward & Hannah &
              others pregnant circumstances sufficient to cleare the pet.r and
              although the Constable Served the Said warrant upon the said
              Hannah & gave notice to the Said Utie to be there also Yet neither
              he nor the Said Hannah by his Order did appeare at the Said Court &
              So nothing was then done That the 3rd of June last the said Utie
              in the absence of the pet.r being then in Virginia without any notice
              to him or any for him brought the Said Hannah to their Court
              and upon her affidavitt aforesaid and another Oath then taken in
              Court that the said Utie her master did neither advise instigate or
              prompt her to lay the said Bastard to the pet.r the Court without any
              other testimony confession declaration in pangs of travill or other
              pregnant circumstances agreeing thereunto as by the Act is directly
              provided in that case did Ordr at the requtst of One Miles Gibson
              the prtended Attorny of the petit.r a reference untill the next Court
              Att which Court being the 4th of August last they Ordered the said
              Miles Gibson as Attorny of the petitioner to pay the said Utie 1400 l
              of tobacco with costs of suite for the petrs getting the said Servant
              with Child otherwise execution That the petr finding himselfe thus