MARYLAND COURT OF APPEALS 579

Costs and Expences as well as keept out of the Effect and Benefit! of the
S^d Judgments for a great number of years by Occasion of the Def^t Adams his
Setting up the S^d fraudulent Deeds It is Ordered, Adjudged, Sentenced, and
decreed that the Def^t Adams his Deeds from Brewerton be Set aside Except
for the hundred Acres demised to Waltam and as much Land Contiguous
thereto as Capt" John Jones and M^r John Roach Shall adjudge to be Worth
Six Thousand pounds of Tob^o next adjoining to the S^d hundred Acres it
being Agreeable to the first Agreem^t between the Def^ts Adams and Brewer-
ton So to do and that the Def^t Adams release his right to the Comp" So that
the Comp" Suffer no prejudice in his right on the Judgm^ts by pretext of the
S^d Adams his Deeds and pay the Compl^t all the Cost in this Cause together
w^th his Damages by Occasion of the Deeds af^d Whereby he has been deprived
of the Profitts of the S^d Lands for the Space of five years and a half w^ch is
adjudged to four Thousand pounds of Tob^o and that the Quantity of Land
that Mess^rs Jones and Roache do value at 6ooo Ib. of Tob^o be returned into
this Court and Entered on this proceeding w^ch is in the following words Viz^t.

To the Hon^rble Chanc^ler of Maryland.

We the Subscribers humbly Certifie that in Obedience to a Decree in
the High Court of Chancery a Copy of w^ch is to us Sent we have been on
the Land of W^m Brewerton and have Allotted 90 acres of the S^d Land to be
laid out for M^r Alexander Adams next Adjoining to the Northermost End
of the Hundred Acres of Land demised by the Said William Brewerton to
John Waltam and Bind on the Land of Thomas Gillis great part of it being
Low and Swampy ground which Said 90 Acres we Judge to be worth Six
Thousand pounds [773] of Tobacco

In Testimony whereof We have hereunto Set our hands and Seales this
30^th day of May Anno Dom 1726

John Jones [Seale]

John Roache [Seale]

Copia Vera Per R^a Clagett Reg^r

And Thereupon afterw^ds To Witt the Same Eleventh day of July Seven-
teen hundred and Twenty Seven in the Same Court of Appeals here the
Same Alexander Adams appeared by Michael Macnemara his Council and
the S^d John Caldwell appeared by W^m Beckingham his Council Whereupon
the S^d Cause was Continued Untill Next Court. Afterw^ds To Witt on the
Twenty Ninth Day of August Seventeen hundred and Twenty Seven Michael

Macnemara Councel for the Said Alexander Adams the Appellant Give in
his Reasons of Appeale Which were filed and follows in these Words ss
Errors on a Decree rendered by the Hon^rble Rich^d Tilghman on the Six-
teenth Day of February Anno Dom 1724 in a Certain Cause then Depending
in the Chancery Court wherein John Caldwell was Compl^t and Alexander
and others were Defendants.