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815 Grant unto your orat.r her Majestys Writt of Injunction to be unto the said Vernon his attorney and Counsell.r directed Comanding them to surcease from any further proceedings at Comon Law against your orat.r on the Verdict afd untill your orat.rs Complaint shall in Equity be heard in this high & honble Court and he be releived therein according to right and Conscience and that the said Christopher Vernon may true and perfect answ.r make to all and singular the Matters in this Bill Contained May it also please your Excy to grant unto your orat.r her Majestys Writt of Sup.a to the said Vernon directed Comanding him under a Certain penalty at a Certain day to be & personally appear in this high and honble Court true and perfect answ.r upon his Corporall Oath to all the Matters and things in this bill sett forth to make as if hereby perticularly interrogated And to stand to and abide such Decree as your Excy on a full hearing shall think fitt to make for your orat.rs Releif herein and he shall ever pray W Bladen Whereupon the said Christopher Vernon for Answ.r thereunto saith it may be true that the said John Hall in the Bill named many years since was possessed in Fee of a Tract of Land called Marshes Seat containing as in the Bill And that he sold the same to a Certain Thomas Knighton and his heires as in the Bill is sett forth which said Tract of Land called Marshes Seat this Defendant Purchased of Thomas Knighton the son and heir of the afd Thomas for the Consideration of the sum of Ninety pounds sterl and four thousand pounds of Tobacco by this Defend.t well and truely paid about Nine or Tenn Years since for which Consideration the said Thomas the son by his Indeture bearing date the Nineteenth day of November in the Year of our Lord 1701 Lawfully Executed and made between the said Thomas Knighton the son by the name of Thomas Knighton of Herring Creek in Ann Arundell County in the province of Maryland Planter son and heir of Thomas Knighton late of Ann Arundell County Inholder decd and Dorothy the wife of the first Named Thomas Knighton of the one part and this Defend.t by the Name of Christopher Vernon of the same place County and Province Planter of the other Part And w.ras |
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