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Chancery Court, Chancery Record, 1671-1712
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       saith he hath been Informed and hopes to prove that the said Compl.t
       well knowing the Danger of forfeiting the said Bond for want of
       warranting and setteing of Gadshill to the said Knighton & his
       heires according to seale and Covenants  Therefore the better to secure
       himself did by some unfair means procure and grant or Conveyance
       thereof from the said George Simons and Eliz.a his wife under the
       Pretence of fifty pounds sterl thô really and bona fide as this Defd.t
       hath been Credibly Informed little or no part thereof was ever paid
       as in and by the said Bill is sett forth and Mentioned whereupon shortly
       after the Compl.t did Comence a Suit at Law and brought his action
       of Trespass and Ejectment against this Defend.t who obtained a
       Non Suit thereupon as by the afd Bill  And that the Compl did
       shortly afterwards (as this Defd.t hath been Informed) procure an
       act of assembly in the Name of the said George Simons & Eliz.a his
       wife without their privity or Consent to Confirm the said will
       after which the said Compl.t did prosecute another action of trespass
       and Ejectment ag.t this Defend.t in her Majestys provinciall Court
       and the Jury therewith Charged brought in a Verdict for this Defend.t
       And this Defend.t being a purchaser und.r the said Thomas Knighton
       the Son and heir at Law to the said Thomas the father (for the Consideration
       afd of the said Tract of Land called Marshes Seat being a
       very Ancient Tract  And being that the said Gadshill is of a young
       date and that both by the said pretended patent of Gadhill and by
       the said pretended will of the said Thomas Knighton the Father to
       said Gadhill is said to be adjacent and so Consequently of the bounds of
       Marshes Seat and could never be Intended by the said will to depose
       the said Thomas his ^Eldest^ son and heir at Law of the Greatest part of
       Marshes Seat and this Defend.t Claiming under him as afd which
                                                                                              (the


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