552       Chancery Court Proceedings, 1679.

       LiberPC     John Haslewood and his wife to deliver for the Sattisfaction of
              their said Debt & Costs of suite to them Decreed as aforesaid This
              Court thereupon and Abhorring such Clandestine & fraudulent prac-
              tices and being willing that the Decree of this Court should bee
              invyolably kept and performed and due obedience given thereunto
              doe order that a sequestration doe issue accordingly directed to
              Majo.r Thomas Taylor and John Alford at the said County Court
              and for the better proceedings herein that they bee Armed with a
              Comission to Examine wittnesses to prove the vallue of the Lands
              and goods and Chattles that were in the possession of the said
              Benjamin Granger at the time of the pronouncing of the said Decree
              and in whose hands Custody or possession the same are now and by
              what right or title and when made and Executed and for what
              Consideracon, And the said Lands goods and Chattles soe seized and
              sequestred as aforesaid that they doe deliver to the said Complts
              for sattisfaction of their debt and Cost Decreed as aforesaid accord-
              ingly.
                Charles absolute Lord and Propry of ye Province of Maryland
              and Avalon Lord Baron of Baltemore &c To Majo.r Thomas Taylor
              and John Alford Gentl Greeting Whereas by an order made before
              us in our Court of Chancery Betweene John Haseiwood and Ann
              his wife Ex.ex of ye last will and Testament of John Avery Deceased
              and Benjamin Granger itt being alleadged that upon ye scaventeenth
              day of October one thousand six hundred seaventy & Eight the
              Comp.Its obtained a Decree in this cause against ye Defendant for ye
              sume of twenty foure pounds sterling and the sume of Three thou-
              sand three hundred fifty and five pounds of tobacco of Costs of
              suite But before the Complts could procure the said Defendants to
              be served with a writt of Execution of the said Decree or could be
              apprehended upon process of Contempt for breach of the said Decree
              he the said Defendant to the intent to defraud ye Comptts of the
              fruite & benefitt of the said Decree did privately and fraudulently
              sell and Convey away all his estate both reall and personall to one
              John Pollard of Dorchester County who was privy to & made
              acquainted with the said Decree before the said purchase and he
              the said Benjamin Granger is since the said Decree runn away out
              of this Province unto parts unknowne and a Coppy of the Execucon
              of the said Decree hath beene left with the said Defendants wife &
              there hath beene two non est inventus returned upon and attachm.t
              and an attachment proclamacon issued out against the Defendant
              for breach of the said Decree all which appeared to our said Court by
        p. 161     the affidavitt of ye said Complt John Haselwood and the retourne
              of ye processe aforesaid to the great hinderance of the Complts in
              the Execucon and performance of the will of the said John Avery,
              and therefore it was prayed that since the said Benjamin Granger