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498 Chancery Court Proceedings, 1677. Liber P C the Same according to the will of the said William Hawleij and to have an accompt of the measne profitts raised and Received out of the Premisses from such persons as had held and Enjoyed the Same dureing the Comp.lts minority and the Comp.lt having then lately atteyned his age of one and Twenty yeares & Comeing to looke after his Right & title to the Premisses and to have possession of the Premisses But the Said Thomas Mathews the Elder George Charlsworth Henry Ryder Joseph Hackneij W.m Clawe & Sarah his wife the widow of William Cole dec.d and Richard Cole an infant Sonne and heyre of the said William Cole haveing Combined together to defeat the Comp.lt of his just right and title to the Premisses they or some of them had gotten into Possession of Severall parcells of the Premises & had gotten possession of the said Originall Will of the said W.m Hawleij which they did suppresse and Conseale the same or knowing that the Same in the tyme of the late Rebellions in this Province was Lost or mislaid that the Comp.lt could not procure the Same to Justifie his title to the Premisses they the Said Confederates did deny and refuse to Discover where p. 112 the same will was or to Deliver up possession of their Severall parcells of land to the Comp.lt whose undoubted Right they were nor would they discover by what right or title they held the Same Contrarij to Equity therefore to enforce a Discoverij of the Said will and to have the said Def.ts Sett forth & discover their Severall titles to their parcells of Land they soe held and to have an accompt of & Satisfaction for their profitts of the Same and that the s.d Lands might be Decreed to the Comp.lt and his heyres for ever according to the will of the Said Cap.t W.m Hawley and that the Def.t might true answer make to the premises & the Comp.It re- lieved therin according to Equity he humbly craved the favourable aid and assistance of this Honn.ble Court and that proces of Subp.a might be thereout awarded against the said Thomas Mathews the Elder George Charlsworth Henry Rider Joseph Hackney W.m Clawe & Sarah his wife and Rich.d Cole to appeare and answer the Prem- isses the w.ch being granted and the Said Defend.ts there withall Served they appeared accordingly and the Said Thomas Mathews the elder putts in his answer to the s.d bill & thereby amongst other things did sett forth that he beleived the said W.m Hawley had Such right to y.e premisses as before is Sett forth and that the Comp.lt was his God sonne and there being great Intimacij between the said W.m Hawley and Nich.° Guyther father of the Comp.it the said W.m Hawley did often in the Def.ts hearing assure the said Nicholas that he would Settle the premisses on him in Consideration of the said Nicholas maintaining the said W.m Hawley dureing his life that the said Nicholas being taken a prisoner att Severne by the Enemys to the L.d Prop.ry and was Condemned to be shott to death |
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