522       Chancery Court Proceedings, 1678.
         Liber P C   Maryland ss Att a Court of Chancery held att the Citty
         of Saint Marycs the seaventeenth day of Octob.t in the
         third ycare of the Dominion of Charles &c Annoq Domi
           One thousand six hundred seaventy Eight prsent

                               Phillip Calvert Esq.r Chancellor
                               W.m Calvert Esq.r Secry
                      The Honoble
                               Thomas Tailor Esq.r

                                Henry Coursey Esq.r

                Between Bernard Johnson Comp :1t & John Abington Defendt
                This cause comeing on in the Docquet of causes this day to be
              heard and debated in the prsencc of Robert Ridgcly Attorney for the
              Comp.'t and George Parker Attorney for the Defend :t the substance
              of the Comp :t1s bill appeared to be That the said Bernard Johnson
              in or about the Thirteenth day of ffebruary in the yeare of our Lord
              One thousand six hundred seaventy One haveing Certaine Communi-
              cacon with the said John Abington about the purchase of a parcell
              of Land Called Glocester Hall lyeing in Calvert County On the
              south side of Petuxent River Containing by survey Three hundred
              and seaventy Acres, the said Bernard did bargaine and agree with
              the Said Johnson for the said Land for six thousand pounds of
              tobacco, the said John assureing the said Bernard that he had a good
              right and title to the same And that the Said Bernard for the
              performance thereof did passe bill payable to the said Abington
              for seaven thousand and odd pounds of tobacco, to say six thousand
              thereof for the Land and the remainder for goods bought of the
              said Abington, which said bill the said Abington put in suite, and
              that the said Johnson and Abington did thereupon come to an agree-
              ment and the said Johnson passed his bill for seaven thousand foure
              hundred twenty and foure pounds of tobacco And the said Johnson
              And the said Johnson in the said bill of Complaint further shewed
              That upon his passing his first bill to the said Abington the said
              Abington drew upp a Certaine Condicon in writeing, therein recite-
              ing that he did agree to sell the said Johnson Only all his right and
              title to the saidLand, with a clause of reentry upon nonpayment of
              the sume six thousand pounds of tobacco in part of a bill for a bigger
              Sume, and that the said writeing was barely under the hand of the
              said Abington And further shewed that the said Land is claimed
              by the Orphants of Thomas Letchworth deceased, And that he the
              said Johnson hath laid out and expended in building fencing and
              cleering in and upon the same Twenty thousand pounds of tobacco
              and that about Two yeares since Elizabeth Letchworth Widdow of
              the said Thomas Letchworth and Guardian to the Orphants of the
              said Thomas Claimed the said Land in right of her Children and
              warned the said Johnson off the same and thereupon the said John-
              son proffered him the said Abington the remaining part of the