Chancery Court Proceedings, 1679. 553

    was fled out of the Jurisdiction of our said Court that our writt Liber P C
    of Sequestration might awarded to some Justice of ye peace of our
    said County of Dorchester directed to enter into seize and Sequester
    into their hands and possession of Lands goods and Chattles of him
    the said Benjamin Grang:r in the actuall possession of him the said
    Benjamin Granger in his owne p'p right at the time of the making
    and pnounceing of the said Decree be the same in the hands and Cus-
    tody or possession of the said John Pollard or of any other person
    or persons whatsoever and the same soe entred upon seized and
    sequestered as aforesd. the Same Lands goods and Chattles to the
    said John Haseiwood and his wife to deliver for the sattisfaction of
    their said debt and Cost of suite to them Decreed as aforesaid where-
    upon our said Court abhorring such Clandestine and fraudulent
    practices & being willing that the Decrees of our Said Court should
    be inviolably kept & pformed and due obedience given thereunto did
    order that our said writt of Sequestracon doe Issue accordingly
    directed to you Thomas Taylor and John Alford and for your better
    pceedings hearein that you Should be armed with our Comission
    to Examine wittnesses to prove the Value of ye Lands and goods
    and Chattles that were in the possession of the said Benjamin
    Granger at the time of the pnounceing 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 Con-
    sideration & the Lands goods & Chattles soe seized and sequestred
    as aforesaid that you doe deliver to the said Comp :lts for sattisfaction
    of their debt and costs Decreed as aforesaid accordingly Now Know
    yee that wee trusting to your fidelleties and prudent Circumspections
    have assigned you and by Vertue of these prsents doe give unto you
    full power and authority to enter upon seize and taken into yo.r
    possession all the Lands goods Cattle and Chattells that were in
    the possession of him the said Benjamin Granger at the time of the
    makeing and pronounceing of the said Decree to witt upon the said
    seaventeenth day of October one thousand six hundred seaventy
    eight and the same sequestred the same to deliver to the possession
    of the said Complts for sattisfaction of their debt of Twenty foure
    pounds sterling and three thousand three hundred fifty and five
    pounds of Tobacco to them Decreed as aforesaid and for your better
    proceedings in the premisses wee doe hereby give unto you the full
    power and authority of enquireing as well by the Deposicöns and
    Examinacons of Certaine wittnesses to be pduced and Examined
    before you as by any other manner or way by which the truth of the
    premisses may be the better found out and discovered as to you
    shall seeme meete what Lands goods Cattle and Chattles the said
    Benjamin Granger was seized or possessed of at the said day of
    prnounceing the Decree aforesaid and of what Value the said p. 162
    Lands goods and Chattles were of & when & to whom the same