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(100) Upon the matters Conteyned in the same Petition and did therefore order and require the Honnourable Phillip Calvert Esq.r Chancellor to surcease any further proceedings upon the said Decree untill the End of the then next provinciall Court and the Comp.lts attornyes this day alleadging that the said Petition was meerly putt in for delaÿ to stay the signing and inrolling of the said Decree and that there had passed one Court to witt February Court and the Defend.t nor his Councill did in the least stirr or move the Court to be heard therein and the Comp.lts attornÿ offering severall Reasons against the Said Petition and the staying of the Inrolling of the Decree aforesaid this Court thereupon and upon reading of the said Petition and order ^thereupon^ and what was alleadged on either side was sufficiently satisfied that the matters in the said Petition mentioned had beene fully argued att the hearing of the cause and therefore they Thought not fitt to receede from their former order but doth order that the said former order and decree doe stand and be Confirmed and that the said Decree be forthwith signed and inrolled and that the Compl.t proceed thereupon as thereby is directed In Chancery Tuesday the Nynth day of October in the yeare of our Lord one Thousand six hundred seaventy and Seven between Thomas Sprigg p.lt Thomas Trueman Esq.r and Nathaniell Trueman Def.ts Att a Court of Chancerÿ then held were present The Honn.rble Thomas Notley Esq.r Lieu.t Gen.ll & Cheife Judge in ^Equity^ Phillip Calvert Esq.r Chancellour The Hon.ble William Calvert Esq.r Secretarÿ Baker Brooke Esq.r Surveyo.r Generall Benjamin Rozer Esq.r Upon the hearing and debateing the matter in question between the said Partyes in the presence of the Comp.lt & his Attorneÿ and of the attornyes of the Def.t Thomas Trueman the said Nathaniell being Dead the substance of the Comp.lts bill being that the said Nathaniell being seized in fee of a parcell of Land in Calvert County in this Province Containing one thousand acres by grant thereof to him made by his Lordp the Lord Proprietary and being so seized and being about the yeare 1667 or 1668 going for England and minding and Intending to sell the said Land and there being a (Communication) |
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