Act Empowering Richard BISHOP to Sell Land of Late William BISHOP (1694); Talbot Co., MD

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[18 October 1694]

   An Act Impowering Richard Bishop of Talbot County
Brother and heire of William Bishop late of Talbott County
deceased to sell and Dispose of so much Land as will Amount
to fifty Thousand pounds of Tobacco for the payment of the
Charges Expended in recovering of the said Estate.
   Whereas William Bishop late of Talbott County Deceased
did make his Last Will and Testament in Writeing and therein
amongst Diverse Legacys and bequests did devise unto
Richard Bishop senior and to Richard Bishop Junior and to 
William Bishop Severall Tracts of Lands to them and theire
heires for ever Declaring that they should not alien any of the
said Lands but that they should remaine Continue and be in
the name of the Bishops for ever And whereas the said Richard
Bishop after the decease of the said William his Brother did
Come into this Country and Demanded all the said Lands in
Right of himselfe and his Two Sons Richard and William 
Bishop but the Executors in the Will named did forceably
hold deteine and keep out the said Bishop from all and every
part and parcell of the said Land Contrary to the said Last
Will and Testament and the said Richard in his own Right
and the Right of his sons William and Richard Bishop did
Comence his suite agt the Executors for recovery of the said
Lands and did pursue the same through the whole Course of 
the Common Law and from thence to the high Court of
Chancery where the suite Ended and the said Bishop recov-
ered all the said Lands and Appurtanances thereunto belong-
ing in which suites he for Costs Charges ffees and Expences
did Expend to the sume of fifty thousand pounds of Tobbacco
by the Long Continuance of the said Suites And whereas the
said Richard and William his sons are now in England under
them Jointly Expended and for that the said Children Come to
Age Eat out the said Estate, he does therefore pray That it
may be Enacted and Be it Enacted by the King and Queens
most Excellt Maties by and with the Advice and Consent of
this Present Genll Assembly and the Authority of the same
That he the said Richard Bishop for the reasons aforesaid and
for payment of the Debt aforesaid may be Impowered and
Lawfully Authorized to Grant Bargain Sell Alien Enffeoff and
Confirm to any person or persons That will purchace the
same so much of the said land as will amount to the said
Sume of fifty Thousand pounds of Tobbacco upon any part
thereof the Mannr house and Plantation Excepted & that the
Sale be good and Valid in Law & indefeaseable in ffee simple
against any person or persons whatsoever Provided That the
Quantity that shall be alienated Exceed not about Eight 
hundred Acres there being no other way or Expedient that
Cam be found for paying the Debt as aforesaid and relief of
him the sd Richd Bishop and Discharging the Debt upon the
said Lands as aforesd acrued.