Chancery Court Proceedings, 1670.    21







       The defendant putt in his answer to the pl.ts Bill ordered that the Liber CD
     plantiff do reply or except in a fortnight The pl.t putt in Exceptions
     and the defendant was Sworn to a second and better answer.

       John Grammer pl.t John Brooke defend :t
       The plantiff having given Security by Recognizance in 40£
     Sterling and W.m Muffett in 20£ Sterling a writt of Error Issued
     out to the Comm.rs of Calvert County Court.

       Rouseby pl.t Edmondson defend :t
       Time given to the defendant till the next Court in his
       answer to the plantiffs Bill
       John Wilison pl.t Zachariah Cook and others defend :t8         (lol. 17)
       The defendants being Sworn to their answer. Ordered the plantiff
     do reply or except in a fortnight and Examine his wittnesses to
     proceed and speed his cause for hearing.

       John Currer pl.t John Wright defend :t
       Time given to the defendant till the next Court to putt in his
     answer to the plantiffs Bill


          Att a Court held for the Chancery and provinciall Court.
        Begun on Tuesday the 12 :th day of April xxxviiith Caecilius
         Annocp dom 1670. and Continued till ifriday the 15.th
          Were present. . The Honble the Chancellor William Cal
        vert Esq Jerome White Esq Baker Brooke Esq and
        Thomas Trueman Esq

       Olliver Holloway pl.t John Homewood defend :t
       The plantiff is to bring defend.t8 his cause to hearing the next
     Court

       Benjamin Cowell pl.t Jonathan Sybrey defend :t
       This Cause standing in the paper of Causes to be heard this day
     in the presence of the attorneys on both sides upon reading of the
     defendants plea and the proofs taken in the Cause and hearing of
     what could be alleadged on either side saw no Cause in Equity to
     give the Complt any Relief in Equity against the Release pleaded
     and doth therefore order that the matters of the sd Compl.ts Bill
     do from henceforth hereby stand fully and absolutely dismissed out
     of this Court with one Thousand pounds of good sound and mer
     chantable Tobacco and Cask to be paid by Master Morecroft At
     torney for the pl.t to the said defendant or his order in respect of
     the said dismission