562        Chancery Court Proceedings, 1679.

       Liber p C  soe as these Defendts may bee allowed by this Court alsoe theire
              charges of this suite, all wch must otherwise necessarily bee charged
              upon the personall estate of the said Vincent, to the greate prjudice
              of the Creditors and Orphants of the said Vincent, wch these Defendts
              humbly Conceave will bee very unreasonable since neither the said
              Vincent nor Hannah nor the said Defendants was in any fault but
              the Complt Onely by his Laches and delayes aforesaid in not getting
              the Conveyance drawne and executed as aforesaid whose prop
              businesse it was, And soe with the generall Traverse they conclude
              theire answere
                And now here at this day to Witt the Sixteenth day of Octor in
              the yeare aforesaid the plt and Defendt being willing to goe to hear-
              ing upon bill and answere, and this ptsent day being appointed for
              hearing the Cause before Our Deare Uncle Philip Calvert Esqr
              our Chancellour of our Said Province our Deare Cousin William
         p. 170   Calvert Esqr our Secretary of our Said Province Vincent Lowe and
              William steevens Esqrs Justices of our said Court in the presence
              of both parties, That is to say Robert Ridgely attorney for the
              Complt and Robert Carvile Attorney for the Defendts, Upon reading
              the bill and answere and fully hearing the parties on both sides, and
              the Deposicons of seaverall Witnesses yt were examined in the said
              Cause this Court was fully Satisfied that the complt was a purchasor
              of the aforesaid parcell of land for a Valluable consideracon, of the
              said Vincent and Hannah, and that the said Hannah had fully
              declared her consent to the said sale, and would have joyned therein
              with her Said husband Vincent if not by Death prvented, and that
              there bee noe assetts in the hands of the said Defendt Samuell the
              Administratr to Re-imburse the Complaynt what hee had paid to-
              wards the said purchase, And Doe therefore Ordr and Decree that
              the said land called Colchester bee by this prsent Decree settled as-
              sured and Decreed to the said Complaynt and his heres forever in
              an absolute estate of Inheritance in fee simple according to the
              condicon of the said bond of twenty thousand pounds of tobacco,
              And that the said Complt his heires and assignes Doe hold and
              enjoy the same accordingly to him and his heires and assignes for
              ever against the said Robert Atchinson Sonne and heire of the said
              Vincent and Hannah and his heires, and against the said Vincent
              and Hannah and all Claymeing by from or under him them or any
              of them free and cleare of all and all manner of inccumbrances
              Done by them or any of them, and that the said Defendt Samuell as
              Guardian of the said Robert Doe forthwith deliver unto the Complt
              or his Attorney or assignes, the Quiett and peaceable possession of
              the said Land and premisses, and make seale and Execute such
              assureance and Conveyance of the premisses to him the said Com-
              playnant at the pper costs and charges of the said Complaynant