496        Chancery Court Proceedings, 1677.

        Liber c    every hundred Acres or part Tobacco and part land att his Choice
               if you make the sale good to him, if you doe not make the sale good
               to him but will keepe the Land your Selfe Doe hereby binde my Selfe
               my heyres Executors or admi.rs firmely by these presents to make
               full Satisfaction to him for all his Charges and trouble that he bath
               been att in the seating of the said Land as wittness my hand this
               29.th of June 1668             Thomas Truman
               Wittness
                  Sath: Sprigg
                       his
                  James   Nuttall
                               marke


                    In Chancerij Att a Court of Chancery held att the Citty
                  of s.t Maryes the 27.th day of Maij in the first yeare of the
                  Dominion of Charles &.ca present

               The Right honn.ble Charles Absolute L.d & Prop.try of yC Province
                    of Maryland and Avalon Lord Baron of Baltemore &.ca
                                r Phillip Calvert Esq.r Chancellor
                                W.m Calvert Esq.r Secretarij
                        The Hon.ble Thomas Taylor Esq.r
                                Samuell Chew Esq.r
                                Jesse Wharton Esq.r

                 Between W.m Guyther gent. Comp.it and Ignatuis Mathews an
               Infant Sonne & heire of Thomas Mathews the younger deceased
               who was Sonne and heir to Thomas Mathews the Elder dec.d by
               W.m Boareman Gent.i his guardian Defendant.

             This cause Standing Revived in the Paper of causes ready for a
               hearing on this Present daij in the Presence of the Comp.lt and
               Robert Carvile his attorneij and in the Presence of Robert Ridgeleij
               attorney for the Defendent (he nor his guardian appearing though
               he was duely served with Processe to heare Judgment) the Sub-
               stance of the Comp.lts Bill appeared to be that whereas heretofore
               that is to Saij in October Court in the yeare of our Lord one thousand
               Six hundred Seaventy and four the Comp.lt did Exhibitt his bill of
               Comp.lt into this Honnourable Court against the Said Thomas
               Mathews the elder deceased and others Defend.ts thereby Setting
               forth that one Cap.n W.m Hawleij late of St Maryes County Esq.r
               haveing right to Six Thousand Acres of Land and upwards in the
               said Province of Maryland by title derived from Jerome Hawleij
               Esq late of the said Province deceased as appears by an order of the
               Provinciall Court bearing date the four and Twentieth daij of March