616       Charles County Court Proceedings, 1674.

         Liber F    foot wide thereunto Adjoyneing with a roome over the first roome
               & another over the sd porch, & a shead behinde in breadth twelve
               foot & a halfe or thereabouts, divided with a partition into two
               roomes, with two bricke Chimneyes (that is to say) the one to be
               built in the Lower roome of the sd house, & the other upon the same
               foundation in the upper roome thereof, with all necessary & Con-
               venient doores, locks, keyes, bolts, latches, hinges, stairecases, staires,
               windowes, window frames, Casements & glasse to be well glazed &
               put up in the frames throughout the sd house above & below, &
               all the roomes to be well plankt on the floores, the lower roome to
               be well wainscotted, the upper roome well daubed & sealed with
               morter white limed & sized, & the shead sealed & lined with riven
               boards, And allsoe one other house to be built neare unto the sd
               house & upon the sd acre of Land three foot within ground at the
               foundation to be twenty & five foot long & fifteene foot wide within,
               & of sufficient strength for a prison, the first roome entring to be
               eight foot in height from the lower floore, & a partition in the middle
               thereof, with a loft or Garrett over all the sd roome, & both the
               floores of the sd roome & loft to be well plankt, & the said loft to be
               six foot high & sealed & lined with riven boards, Together with free
               Egresse & Regresse to & from the sd houses for all persons at all
               times, The sd dwelling house to be Compleately finished for a Court-
               house forthwith in manner above mentioned, And the sd house for a
               prison to be finished as aforesd before the last day of May now next
               ensueinge, To have & to hold the sd acre of Land & houses & all &
               singular the before graunted premises thereunto belonging with
               their & every of their appurtenances from mee the sd John Allen &
               my heires for ever, unto the Right Honorable the Lord Proprietary
               aforesaid his heires & Successors forever, To & for the publicke
               use of his & their County of Charles County in Maryland aforesd,
               & the Inhabitants thereof for a Court house for his Ldps Justices
               to hold Court in, & a prison to secure prisoners when thereunto
               Comitted, And to & for these very purposes for ever And I the
               John Allen for myselfe my heires ExecTs & Admrs doe hereby Cove-
               nant promise & graunt to & with the Right Honoble the Lord Pro-
               prietary aforesd his heires & Successors, That I the sd John Allen my
               heires Execrs Admrs or Assignes shall & will from time to time &
               at all times hereafter maintein provide & keepe or Cause to be main-
               teined provided & kept a publicke ordinary or house of entertaine-
               ment neare unto the sd Court house & prison, for the Convenient
               entertainement of his Ldps Justices & all other persons whatsoever
               at any time thither lawfully resortinge: And shall & will keepe &
               Cause to be kept the Court house & prison in good & sufficient
               repair for ever except their foundations shall happen to decay
               with rottonnesse, And I the sd John Allen for myselfe my heires
               execrs & Admrs doe further Covenant promise & grant to & with
               the Right Honoble the Ld Proprietary his heires & Successors aforesd