MARYLAND COURT OF APPEALS 513

Powlson Afterw^ds Indorsed the Said Bills to the S^d Thomas Bordley Who was
Attorney for the S^d Powlson and Transacted the Whole Affair and was privy
to the manner of the Judgments being obtained who Sent them to England
to be Accepted and paid by your Pet^r Forward but that your Pet^r refused (as
he Apprehends he might Justly do) to Accept or pay the Same and that there-
upon the Said Bills were protested. That on the return of the Said Bills
protested the S^d Bordley Sued your Petitioner Cockey on the S^d protest that
your Pet^r Cockey being terrifyed with the threats and Vaunts of the Said
Bordley was Innocently Drawn in to a New Sett of Bills for 72o£ Sterling
payable to the Said Bordley or Order as for Value received of the Said
Bordley. That in Relation to the S^d Bill the Said Thomas Bordley put in a
Demurrer and answer and thereupon they Came to a hearing before his
Excellency the Chancellor of this province on the Day of Upon
Which hearing his Excellency Was pleased to Decree or Order that your Peti-
tioners Should be Dismised and That Your Pet^r Forward Should pay all the
Costs that had Accrued on Account of the Said Bill by which S^d Decree or
Order Your Pet^rs humbly Apprehends [706] They are Agrieved and have
Sustained Manifest and Considerable Damages Contrary to Law and Equity
as your Petitioners are advised.

Wherefore your Petitioner According to the form of the Act of Assembly
Appeals to your Honours Against the S^d Decree or order and humbly prays
that your Honours will please to appoint the Said Thomas Bordley a Short
Day to answer the premisses And that the Said Decree or Shall be reversed
and that your Petitioners may be relieved in Such Manner as your Honour
Shall think proper meet and Expedient

And your Orator will ever pray etc.

M Macnemara

And Thereupon Afterw^ds on the first Day of June Anno Dom Seventeen
hundred and Twenty Six af^d the af^d Thomas Bordley in his own proper per-
son Exhibits to the Court here the following Answer to the af^t Petition and
Appeale To the Hon^rble the Governour and Council of Maryland

The Humble Answer of Thomas Bordley to the Petition and Appeale
of Jonathan Forward and others Against him the S^d Thomas Bordley Pro-
testing Against the right and Manner of the Said Jonathan Forward Thomas
Cockey John Moale Robert Gordon and William Rogers their prosecuting
their Appeale af^d and Saving to himself at all Times the Benefit of Exceptions
as well to the irregularity of their prosecuting their S^d Appeale in the Name
of the Said Cockey Moale Gordon, and Rogers who were not named parties
to the Suit. Dismist in Chancery from w^ch order of Dismissall they pretend
to Appeale as for that all the Appellants Neglect to Assigne Any Matters in
their Said Petition or otherwise as Causes for Such their Appeale According
to the Rules and practice of this Hon^rble Court and the Direction of the Act
of Assembly refered to by their Said Petition on which Act they pretend to