148 Assembly Proceedings, March 26-April 15, 1707.

Lib. L. L.
No. 64.

fied therefore any Law Statute or usage to the Contrary Not-
withstanding:
Provided always that this Act nor any thing therein Con-
tained shall be Construed or taken in any wise to Extend to
the defeating Rescinding abrogateing or suspending the force
Vigour or Effect of the afd act for preventing the growth of
popery in any other matter or thing whatsoever or for or dure-
ing any Longer time than what is herein Expressed and De-
clared.

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Aprill the 9^th 1707 Read and Assented to by the house of
Delegates. Signed p order. W Taylard Cl. h. D.

Aprill the 10^th 1707. Read & Assented to by her Maj^tys
hono^rble Councill, & Signed p order.
W Bladen Cl. Councill.

Aprill the 15^th 1707 On behalf of her Maj^ty Queen Anne
of England &^ca I will this be a Law Jo: Seymour

An Act Confirming the Last will & Testam^t of Thomas
Knighton Late of Annarundell County Deceased :

Whereas Thomas Knighton late of Annarundell County in
this her Maj^tys Province of Maryland the Twelfth day of Au-
gust Anno Dni. one Thousand Six hundred Eighty & four
made Signed Sealed Published and Delivered his Last Will
and Testament bearing the same Date in the presence of Cap-
tain Robert Procter Master George Parker & Coll⁰ W^m Hol-
land Witnesses Subscribed thereto therein & thereby Dispose-
ing of Divers Lands and Tenements to Severall Psons and
uses therein Expressed and after some time Dyed and there-
upon Dinah Knighton his Executrix therein named Caused
the Will afd to be proved in Comon forme by the oath of the
said Collonel William Holland the surviving Wittness thereto
before Master Henry Bonner Deputy Com^ry for the County
afd who transmitted the same to the Com^ry Generall's office to
be Recorded as usuall but in as much as it hath so happened
thai by the Negligence of the Clerk who Recorded the same in
transcribing thereof forgetting to Record the probat the s^d
Will is at p^rsent ineffectuall to answer the Devises therein

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made for Remedy thereof :
Be it Enacted by the Queens most Excellent Majesty by
and with the advice and Consent of her Majesty's Governour
Councill & Assembly of this province and the Authority of the
same that the will of the said Thomas Knighton so as afd Re-