252 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1694 97.

    Lib. H. D. Expressed) Demise Set and to farme Lett unto one John

           Baker late of our City of Snt Maries In holder deed a certain

           Messuage or Tenemt scituate Lying and being within the

           aforesaid City commonly known and called by the Name of

           the Countrey house, together with one Acre and one fourth of

           an Acre of Land to the said Messuage belonging with all out

           houses Edifices &ca for & Dureing the Terme of Twenty five

           yeares being Butted and Bounded as by the said Lease remain

           ing upon Record in the Secretaries Office of this our said Pro

           vince relation being thereunto had May fully & at Large

           appeare wch said Messuage Land And Premisses Elizabeth

           Baker Widow and Relict of the said John hath since the Death

           of the said John Her husband Transferred and made over her

           remaining Right Title & interest of in and unto the said Lease

           with all the Priviledges and Advantages therevnto belonging

           unto Charles Carroll of the aforemenconed City Gentl. his

           heirs and Assignes Now Forasmuch as the said Charles Car

           roll hath by his humble petition vnto the Govr and Councill of

           our said Province set forth his being possessed of the said

           Land and Premisses in Manner afore Expressed, Withall cer

           tifying that one side of the said house and the whole covering

           is now quite decay'd and unless speedily Repair'd will fall to

           the Ground and therefore humbly praid some longer time of

           years might be aded to the said Lease he intending to make

           all the Walls of the said house of Brick and new Cover the

           same, Which said Peticon being sent up to the house of Bur

           gesses was agreed to and Granted that the Remaining part of

           the Lease might be made up Twenty one Years upon the

           conditions afore mentioned By vertue whereof We have for

           and in consideracon of the Rents and Covenants hereafter

           mentioned to be paid done and performed by the aforenamed

           Charles Carroll Demised Granted Set and to farme Lett and

           by these prsents Doe Demise Grant, set and to farm Lett unto

           the said Charles Carroll all that afore mentioned Messuage or

           Tenemt and Dwellinghouse scituate lyeing and being in the

           City of Snt Maries aforesaid comonly called the Countrey

           house and now in the Possession of Miles Burroughs together

           also with one Parcell of Land to the same house belonging,

           according to Certificate of Survey thereof made the nineteenth

           day of June 1678, and Remaining upon Record in the Secre

           taries Office; called the Governrs ifreind Shipp being Butted

           and Bounded in manner following, That is to say Begining at

           a Stake in the Ground over against a Street called Middle

           Street it being on the Western side of the Land laid out for

           Mark Cordea called Cordeas hope & runing from thence by a

           Line drawn two degrees South of the West and without the

           porch of the Countrey house Eight perches & six foot To a

           Stake in the Ground and from thence with a Line drawn two