490        Chancery Court Proceedings, 1677.

       Liber P C  of the said Purchase and in full Satisfaction thereof he was will-
              ing to accept of the five hundred Acres of Land lyeing att the
              Ridge and for which the Comp.lt shewed them a Speciall warrant
              from his Exelencij the then Cap.n Generall for soe much to be layd
              out for the Comp.lt out of his Lordps mannor att the Ridge afore-
              said and thereupon the Comp.lt did shortly after tender unto the
              said Nathaniell Trueman the said Six Thousand pounds of Tobacco
              and was readij to have given him the said Nathaniell Sufficient
              securitij for the payment of the Remainder being four Thousand
              pounds of Tobacco and to have procured the said five hundred Acres
              of Land to be granted to him by his said Lordp soe as the Comp.It
              might have had the said Land and premisses well and Suffciently
              Conveyed to him as aforesaid all which was then freindly accorded
              to by the said Def.ts & in pursuance thereof they together with the
              Comp.lt & M.r Charles Boteler a Deputy Surveyour went to attend
              M.r Hcnry Darnall to whom the warrant was Directed in order to
          p. 103  have the said land layd out & Surveyed but by reason that they could
              not presently gett a Chapman to whom they might Sell the Same (one
              Abraham Birkhead haveing agreed to buy the Same and then Re-
              fused) the Said five hundred acres of Land was not then Surveyed
              and the said Nathaniell by the Advice of his Brother Thomas (as
              the Comp.lt was Informed) refused not onely to medle therewith
              but to accept of the said tenn Thousand pounds of Tobacco or
              Security for the same or to give the Comp.lt any legall Conveyance
              of and for the said one Thousand Acres of Land and the Comp.lt
              was very well assured he the said Nathaniell would have Complyed
              with the said Contract and accepted of the said Comp.It the said
              Tobacco and land and made the Comp.lt Sufficient Conveyance of the
              said land had itt not been by the meanes and perswasion of the
              said Thomas, and the reason why the said Thomas did hinder the
              Doeing and Executing thereof was (as the Comp.lt was informed)
              for that itt was given out and Reported that upon a due Survey of
              his Lordshipps mannors of Calverton or Zachiah the said one Thou-
              sand Acres would fall to be within his Lordps Said Mannors or one
              of them & therefore they refused to give the Comp.lt a generall
              Warranty which the Comp.lt for the Reason aforesaid was the
              more earnest to have and then againe by himself e and freinds did
              Importune them to make him such firm Estate of the Premisses as
              aforesaid but the Def.ts understanding what vast Charges and
              Expences the Comp.It had been att in cleering building and improve-
              ing the premisses and other Charges about the Same & the Comp.It
              haveing shewed them an accompt of his said Charges & disburse-
              ments amounting to the Sume of Thirty and four Thousand pounds
              of Tobacco & upwards and demanding Satisfaction for the same
              according to the said Thomas Letter and agreement aforesaid or a
              sufficient assurance and title to the Premisses to be made him as