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1674 Jonathan Hopkinson Compl The parties Complainants and def.ts appeareing and this cause ag.t comeing to a heareing in the presence & the Attornyes on John Wright & R Snowden def.ts both sides and this bill and replication of the Compl and the def.ts answer & all other papers touching the same were openly read and heard and by this Court considered off and the Court is fully satisfied that the patent granted the def.t Wright for six hundred and forty acres of land called Bingley in the Compl bill of complaint mentioned ought to be delivered up cancelled and made void upon record And doe hereby order and decree that the said pattent for the said parcell of land called Bingley be delivered up by the said John Wright and cancelled adnulled and vacated upon record and that the def.t John Wright pay to the Complainant Jonathan Hopkinson the full quantity of three thousand ^five hundred^ pounds of tobacco for his costs in this behalfe laid out and also that the said Richard Snowden repay to the Complainant the summe of three thousand pounds of tobacco Comand was given to the sheriff of S.t Maries County that by good and lawfull men of his Bailiwick he make known unto John Nichols that he be and appeare before his Lopps justices the 14.th day of April last past to shew cause if any he had why the Letters pattent of a parcell of land called Tinkerly or Wickahandyck containeing 350 Acres to him granted should not be vacated upon record and patents of confirmation for the same be granted to William Pritchett Sonne and heire of John Pritchet deceased and the same Sheriff saith that he hath made knowne to the said John Nichols that he be and appeare at the day aforesaid but the said John Nichols came not but made default dayrows then given him untill this Court but the said John Nichols came not therefore Ordered and decreed by the Court here that the aforesaid Letters Pattent of the said Lord Proprietary shall be revoaked cancelled evacuated adnulled and for void & 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 and that pattent of Confirmation thereof be granted to William the son and heire of the said John Pritchett Raymond Stapelfort the def.t being in the custody of the Sheriff of S.t Maries County ag.t at the suite of the said Raymond Staplefort upon a Capias ad satisfactiend John Balley for two thousand pounds Sterl Petitioneth this Court for a writt of Error and Supersedeas which was granted unto him by the Court here returnable the six and twentith day of May next Margarett Penry Compl ag.t Thomas Howell & al def.ts Henry Scarburgh Compl ag.t Rich Pery & al def.ts John Edmundson Compl these five causes continued ag.t John Clement & al def.ts Thomas Sprigg Compl ag.t The Court adjourned untill the 18.th Tho Truman & al def.ts of October next W.m Guither Compl ag.t Thomas Mathews & al def.ts |
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