Novemb. 1. 1654. Katherine Pettus, plaintiffe, Margaret Bancroft, defendant in chancery Pettus, Katherine. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A90627 of text R40086 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.19[30]). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 5 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2017 A90627 Wing P1913 Thomason 669.f.19[30] ESTC R40086 99872565 99872565 163368 This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. This Phase I text is available for reuse, according to the terms of Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal . The text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A90627) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 163368) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 246:669f19[30]) Novemb. 1. 1654. Katherine Pettus, plaintiffe, Margaret Bancroft, defendant in chancery Pettus, Katherine. 1 sheet ([1] p.) s.n., [S.l. : 1654] 'Katherine .. Bancroft, defendant' is enclosed in a right-hand curly bracket. Imprint date from Wing. Annotation on Thomason copy: "Nouemb .1st 1654". Reproductions of the originals in the Harvard University Library (Early English books) and the British Library (Thomason Tracts). eng Pettus, Katherine -- Early works to 1800. Bancroft, Margaret -- Early works to 1800. England and Wales. -- Court of Chancery -- Cases -- Early works to 1800. Debt relief -- England -- Early works to 1800. A90627 R40086 (Thomason 669.f.19[30]). civilwar no Novemb. 1. 1654. Katherine Pettus, plaintiffe, Margaret Bancroft, defendant in chancery Pettus, Katherine 1654 829 8 0 0 0 0 0 97 D The rate of 97 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the D category of texts with between 35 and 100 defects per 10,000 words. 2007-07 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2007-07 Aptara Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2007-08 Mona Logarbo Sampled and proofread 2007-08 Mona Logarbo Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion Novemb. ●… . 1654. Katherine Pettus , Plaintiffe In Chancery . Margaret Bancroft , Defendent In Chancery . THe Plaintiffe a poore Widow , oppressed in an extraordinary manner by the power of the Defendent and her friends in this suit in Chancery , now of 23. yeares continuance , wherein the Plaintiffe sueth for an Orphans portion against the Defendent , the Widow and Executrix of Mr. Thomas Bancroft , the Executor that raised his whole Estate by his Executorship . The Plaintiffe through this Suit is above 2000. l. in debt , and some of her Creditors are ready to perish for want of their Moneys , is brought to sue in forma Pavperis , hath sold and pawned all the Goods and meanes shee had any waies for her subsistence , and hath been and is forced to take up money at Brokage after 20 , 40 , and 60. l. in the hundred , and hath nothing left to live upon , but is supported upon Almes and Charity , her whole Estate , for her self , her Fatherless children , and Creditors , being in and upon this Suit. The Orphans portion is , by vertue of , and according to , the Orders of Court , Cast up , and Certified by a Master of Chancery , to amount unto 6720. l. upon the first of March , 1651. ( and after 6. l per Cent. since commeth now unto 7795. l. ) ; yet the Master hath taxed but 100. l. for the Plaintiffes Costs , whereas the Plaintiffe , and her late Husband the Orphan have spent in this suit , neere 2000. l. if not ●ull so much . The sa●d Thomas Bancroft , the Executor , above 18. yeares agoe at his Death , and within three weekes before his death , when this Suit had continued above Foure yeares against him , left to the Defendent his Wife , and their Children , being onely three Daughters , whereof the two elder were richly Married before , and hee had given them answerable Portions , a personall Estate of above 5000. l. and a reall Estate of 300 l. a yeare Lands of inheritance , or thereabouts ; All which hee raised and bought , after hee had possessed himself of the Testators estate , and this Orphans-portion . The Defendent Margaret Bancroft , after shee had stood out all processe of Contempt in Chancery , and obscured her self , for almost Seven yeares together , was , by the Plaintiffes procurement , with much trouble , searching , and charges to the Plaintiffe , arrested by a Serjeant at Armes upon the 6th day of July 1648. and was Committed to the Fleet , where after she had been about a yeare Imprisoned , she removed her self from thence by a Habeas-corpus , unto the Prison of the Viper-Bench where shee st●ll remaineth , obstinatly refusing to make satisfaction to the Plaintiffe ; And the Estate o● the said Thomas Bancroft , is so fraudulently passed away , by himself and the Defendent , si●ce the b●ginning of this Suit , for the use of the Defendent , and their Children , that the poore Plaintiff can get no fruit nor benefit of her Suit , though shee hath an Ordinance of Parliament of the 8th of August 1643. That shee should receive the fruit and benefit of her Suit by the Ordinance and Authority of both Houses of Parliament . The Plaintiffe humbly representeth this short part of her Case to the Honourable Committee , that is to bring in a Bill for the Relief of Creditors and poore Prisone●s , most humbly praying , That in the said Bill there may bee some speciall provision made for such like Cases ; And that the words in the late Act for the Relief of Creditors and poor Prisoners ( But a settlement or Graunt made by such Prisoners of their Estates , or any part thereof , or made by any other Person for whose debt the said Prisoner is Imprisoned of his or her Estate reall or personall , or any part thereof , to any of their Children or Heyres apparent , vpon Marriage or otherwise , after a Debt contracted , is not to be accompted a Purchase or Conveighance to bee allowed , further then to cause restitution of the Money , which was really payed to , and received by , such Prisoner , or other person vpon such Conveighance or Graunt ) may bee put into the said Bill and like Act to bee made ; which Words will save much trouble in the proof of fraudulent Deeds , which the leaving out thereof in the late Ordinances would have put unto : And that there may bee . Understanding , upright , and impartiall Judges .