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(57) to the said Indenture and Pattent which pattent ought not in Law or equity by any private Act or instructions but what shall be sufficient matter of record and ariseing before the said Certificate of Surety made for Thomas Gerard Esq and Pattent thereupon duly obteined be any wais accorded or sett aside And this he is ready to avere and demands the judgment of this Court whether the said Letters Pattents for the said foure hundred acres of land called the Meadowes so as aforesaid made ought to be revoaked or adnulled or the said Lands seized into the hands of the said Lord Proprietary &c And the said Lord Proprietary by Vincent Lowe Esq his Lopps Attorny Gen.ll saith that the said Letters Pattents of him the said Lord Proprietary to him the said Thomas Gerard Esq in forme aforesaid granted for the said foure hundred acres of land called the Meadowes ought to be revoked and adnulled and the same into the hands of his said Lopp ought to be seized because he saith that long before the takeing up of the said Land by him the said Thomas Gerard the said Lord Proprietary the same Land had referred for his owne proper Use and did by his instructions to his Governour there make knowne the same who did publish and declare the same to his Lopps said Council and his Lopps Surveyour Gen.ll of the said Province which was sufficient notice of his said Lopps reserve as well to the said Thomas Gerard as all other the Inhabitants of his Lopps said Province and that the said foure hundred acres of Land called the Meadowes is part of his Lopps said Mannour of Choptico and within his Lopps said reserve And as to the remaining part of the said plea that the said reserve was not entred upon record it ought not to debarre him the said Lord Proprietary from causeing the letters pattents aforesaid to be vacated it being the lackes and negligence of his Officers which ought not nor cannot prejudice him the said Lord Proprietary and that no prescription of time can anyway prevaile against him the said Lord Proprietary and this he is ready or averr and thereupon demands judgment and the defendant likewise Whereupon it was Considered by the Court that the aforesaid Letters pattent of his said Lordshipp the Lord proprietary shall be revoked cancelled evacuated adnulled and for void and invalid had and esteemed and also that the inrollment of Record of them shall be cancelled and adnulled and for void and invalid held and esteemed Tobias Wells Complainants the parties Complainant and def.ts ^appeareing^ this cause comeing to a heareing in the ag.t presence of the Attornyes on both sides the Complainants bill and replication John Wright & Mary his wife and the def.ts answer being openly read and heard and by the Court considered adm.rx Barth Gleven def.t of the Court was cleerely satisfied that the Quietnes in the def.ts answer pleaded in barr against the Complainants bill of Complaint for the summe of fourteene thousand three hundred and seaventeene pounds of tobacco due by recognizance from the said Bartholomew Glevin deceased to the Compl was not a sufficient discharge of the def.ts against the Complainant but that the same ought first and primary to have bin satisfied before debts of a lower nature and therefore upon examination of accompts by the Court here the def.t haveing produced severall bills notes and receipts in discompt of the said summe to the value of five thousand six hundred sixty one pounds of tobacco and by the Complainant allowed of the Court doe hereby Order and decree that the said John Wright ^& Mary his wife^ doe pay to the Complainant as well the summe of eight thousand six hundred sixty six pounds of tobacco the remainder of the said summe of fourteene thousand three hundred and seventeene pounds of tobacco as also the summe of six thousand pounds of tobacco for the costs and damages in this behalfe susteined which said summes in the whole doe amount unto the summe of fourteene thousand six hundred sixty six pounds of tobacco to be by the said John Wright ^& Mary his wife^ paid to the said Tobias Wells |
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