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528 Chancery Court Proceedings, 1678. Liber P C great value & to the Comp.lts unknown in And they further sett forth that the said John Avery dyed before he came on shore Leaving all his money & Goods in the possession of the Said Benj :a Granger P. ‘39 hee The said Avery haveing first made his will & the sd Ann Exr And that the sd Benj.a Granger being come home the sd Ann demanded of him an Acc.t of the sd Money & Goods or satisfaccon for the sume & to acquaint her with what other Goods or money he have in his Custody belonging to the said Avery which he absolutely denied & refused to doe & Shewing him the writeing was written with his owne hand of the pticuler disbursem.t5 the sd Avery had disbursed for Him & the Goods he had entrusted him with as aforesd & Coppy whereof was thereunto annexed he the sd Benj.a Granger knowing he had onely writt the said Acc.t by Jn'o. Avery's order but had not viewed the same under his hand & that those transaccons betweene them was done in private And that the said John & Anne Could not make anything plainely appeare ag.t him did positively deny that he had or received of the said John Avery any of the Goods or Sumes of Money aforesaid or any other Goods or money whatsoever or if he did that he had accompted for the Same & paid the sd John Avery for the same & that the said John & Ann being now intermarried & by vertue thereof in right of the said Ann intituled to see much Goods & money as remaines in the hands of the Said Bemj.a Granger of & belonging to the Estate of the said John Avery the better to enable them to performe the will of the said John Avery & pay his Just & due debts & they haveing received very credible informacon by severall Persons that the sd Benj.a Granger hath Severall Sumes of money & goods of John Avery's in his hands that they have often by themselves and ifriends requested the said Benj .a Granger to come to an Acc.t with them and without further Suit or trouble to deliver unto the Comp.Its what he hath of the sd John Averys in his hands he hath & abso- lutely denied & refused to doe the same contrary to equity & good Conscience to an apparent breach of trust being by the said ffather in Law entrusted entrusted as aforesd & to the great hindrance of the Execucon of the sd Deced Last will & Testam.t Therefore & for as much as the Complts have no meanes at & by the strict Rules of the Comon Law to enforce a discovery of such Clandestine frauds & transaccons & trusts as aforesaid the Comp.lt not being able to make such proofe of the Perticuler goods & sumes of money to him deliv- ered by the said John Avery & intrusted with him as the Law requires and the witnesses that should prove the pticuler paym.ts of the Severall Sumes of money by the said John Avery Laid out & ex- pended for him & menconed in the Schedule to the sd Bill of Comp.lt annexed are in remote parts in England or elsewhere out of the |
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