“This was an appeal from a decree of the High Court of Chancery. The bill was filed by the appellees, to be relieved against a judgement at law, on a bond payable the 2d of March 1784, executed by the appellees for £113: 16: 4, being the amount of a tract of land, mortgaged by a certain David Davenport to the appellant, to secure a debt of £40: 18: 7, with interest from the 19th of August 1756, and sold under a decree of the County Court of Hanover, and purchased by the appellee James the younger, for whom the other appellee was security.”