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Chancery Court, Chancery Record, 1671-1712
Volume 748, Page 320   View pdf image
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             At a Court of Chancery held at y.e port of Annapolis
             March y.e seventh in y.e Eighth year of His Maj.ties Reigne
                                     Annoque Dom      1695/6

             Present      Coll Nic Greenbury Keeper especially appointed
                               pro hâc vice (instead of Coll Hen Jowles who being
                               sick could not attend his office) as by y.e Comission
                               here recorded doth appear
                               Kenelm Chesyldyn &
                               Maj.r Edw.d Dorsey         Justices
                                                                   John Freeman Regist.r


       William y.e third by y.e grace of God of England Scotland France
Comission      & Ireland King Defend.r of y.e faith &c  To Coll Nicholas Greenbury
to Coll Nich   Kenelm Cheseldyne & Maj.r Edw.d Dorsey Esq.rs Greeting Whereas
Greenbury      by a late Comission granted by Us & our Royall Consort Queen
&c to sit as     Mary lately decd dated y.e 14.th day of May last Coll Henry
Judges in        Jowles Esq.r was Instituted Chief Judge in Chancery & Keeper of
Chanc.ry        our great seal of maryland & Kenelm Cheseldyne & Maj.r Edward
       Dorsey Esq.rs joynt Comission.rs & assistant Judges in our high Court
       of Chancery for y.e s.d province  And whereas y.e s.d Coll Hen.r Jowles
       Esq.r being at present afflicted with y.e Gout & other Indispositions
       of body is therefore unable to attend y.e s.d Court of Chancery
       And y.e Causes in our s.d Court require a dispatch & cannot
       without publick prejudice be delayed  Know y.e y.t We have therefore
       assigned you y.e s.d Coll Nich.o Greenbury Kenelm Cheseldyn
       & Maj.r Edw.d Dorsey Esq.rs Comission.rs & Judges of our high Court
       of Chancery in our s.d province of Maryland untill such time as
       y.e above said Coll Hen.r Jowles (together with y.e assistant Judges
       joynt in y.e s.d Comission with him) shall be able to attend his said
       office to keep & cause to be kept all Ordinances Rules & Orders w.ch
       of right ought to be kept in y.e s.d Court for y.e quiet Rule & Governm.t
       of our people within this our said province according to equity & good
       Conscience w.ch usually hath or according to y.e Rules & customes of
       our s.d Court may be fit to be done  We have also assigned you
       y.e s.d  Coll Nich Greenbury Kenelm Cheseldyne & Maj.r Edw.d Dorsey
       or y.e Major part of you (whereof you y.e s.d Coll Nich Greenbury are
       allwaies to be one) Comission.rs & Judges joyntly in our s.d Court
       Willing & by these presents constituting you y.e s.d Coll Nich Greenbury
       Kenelm Cheseldyne & Maj.r Edw.d Dorsey Esq.rs or y.e Maj.r part of
       you as afd to hear & determine all manner of Complaint
       by bill or Judiciall Complaint exhibited to this our Court & Answer
       thereto as of right you ought  And such decrees & orders to make therein
       as to you shall seem agreeable to Equity & good Conscience having
       regard y.t equall Right be done to y.e people within our s.d Province
       And We comand you and every of you y.t you dilligently
       attend y.e keeping of our s.d Court & y.t you make such orders &
       grant such process as by the Rules of y.e s.d Court ought to be
                                                                                           made


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