68 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1761-1769.

Lib. J. R.
& U. S.

therefore the Rent of One pepper Corn only on the last day of
the said Term if the same shall be Lawfully Demanded To the
Intent that by Virtue of these presents and of the Statute for
Transferring of uses into possession the said Thomas Ben-
nett and William Sharpe may be in the Annual Possession of
all the said Premisses and be thereby Enabled to take a grant
or Release of the Inheritance thereof to them and their Heirs
to such Uses Trusts Intents and purposes as in and by One
Indenture Tripartite of Release Intended to bear date the day
next after the day of the date hereof and to be made between
the said Frederick Lord Baltimore of the first part the said
Cecilius Calvert of the second part the said Thomas Bennett
and the said William Sharpe of the Third part are Intended to
be Expressed In
Witness whereof the said parties to these presents have
hereunto Interchangeably set their Hands and Seals the day
and year first above Written
F. [Seal] Baltimore Cecil^s [Seal] Calvert
Acknowledged by the within named Frederick Lord Balti-
more and the Honourable Cecilius Calvert Esq^r this 3^d day of
February 1761 Before me
Tho^s Lane
Sealed and Delivered (being first duly Stampt) in the
presence of
Hugh Hamersley
Giles Hitchcock
Rich^d Gilbert.

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On the back of the foregoing Deed is thus Endorsed
The Right Honourable
Lord Baltimore and others
to -Lease for a year.
The Honourable Thomas
Bennett and others
Inrolled in His Mapesty's High Court of Chancery the
fourth day of February in the year of our Lord 1761, being
first duly Stampt according to the Tenor of the Statute made
in the Sixth year of the Reign of their late Majesties King
William and Queen Mary.
By Geo: Eckerrall

[Deed of Settlement]

This Indenture Tripartite made the Thirty first day of
January in the First year of the Reign of Our Sovereign Lord
George the Third by the Grace of God of Great Britain France
and Ireland King Defender of the Faith and so forth And in