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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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