Chancery Court Proceedings, 1678.507

     adnulled & made void upon Record, & the same into our hands be Liber P C
     seized, & to doe & receive what our said Court shall consider of in
     this behalfe And in what manner you execute this prcept you make
     known unto us the day aforesaid & have you there this writt Witnes
     our self e att the Citty of S.t Maryes the seventeenth day of June in
     the third ycare of our Dominion &c., Annoq.Dni 1678.
      Att which said Eighteenth day of June in the yeare aforesaid the
     same Sheriffe maketh returne of the prcept aforesaid endorsed, that
     by vertue thereof he had made known unto Justinian Gerard before
     Henry Bonner and John Heard good & lawfull men of his bailywick
     that he should make his personall appearance here att the day and
     place aforesaid as by the said ptcept he was comanded Whereupon the
     said Justinian Gerard being solemnly called appeared by Nehemiah
     Biackiston his Attorney And whereupon Kenelm Cheseldyn Esq.r
     his Lordpp Attorney Gen” on the behaife of his Lordpp offered
     himselfe against the said Justinian Gerard and desired that the
     Patent aforesaid for the reasons aforesaid should be adnulled vacated
     and made void And the said Justinian Gerrard hy his Attorney
     aforesaid Said nothing in barre thereof alledgeth but the Said
     Patent so surreptitiously obtained as aforesaid to this Court deliv-
     ered & surrendered Whereupon after due & mature consideracon
     had & taken of & upon the Prmisses And the said Patent & Certi-
     ficate of Resurvey being duely pondered & considered this Court doe
     order adjudge & decree the said Patent & all and singular the
     entryes thereof to be null & void to all intents & purposes whatsoever
     And that the same Patent be imediately cancelled in open Court
     by the Honble Philip Calvert Esqr Chancelour of this Province, &
     that the entryes thereof be vacated upon Record And the same
     lands into his Lordpps hands be seized Which said Patent was in
     open Court by the said Chancelour cancelled & made void according
     to the order and decree aforesaid

    Edward Williams The partyes Comp :1t & defend :t appearing by
        agt Ftheire Attorneyes, & this cause comeing to a
     Bruen Radford hearing in the prsence of the Attorneyes on both
     sides And the bill and Replicacon of the Comp :lt & the Answer &
     Rejoynder Of the Defend :t being openly read & heard, & upon p. 122
     hearing & debateing thereupon & by this Court seriously viewed and
     considered & hearing what could be alleged on either side this
     Court was all clearly satisfied that the bill of three thousand Eight
     hundred pounds of tobacco in the bill of Complaint menconed bear-
     ing date the twenty seventh day of January Anno One thousand
     Six hundred seventy five ought to be delivered upp to the Comp :lt
     Edward Williams cancelled & made void And that the Defend :t pay
     unto the Comp :lt costs of Suite Itt is therefore this day to witt the