330 Assembly Proceedings, 1694-1728.

Liber LL, 4
Acts

Cause to be Delivered up and Surrendred to the Sheriff of Charles
Ann Arundell Calvert Queen Anns or Dorchester Countys aforesaid
in the Presence of two Justices of the Peace in Each of the said
Counties, whom the said Sheriffs are hereby required to summon on
the request of the said Thomas Turner Christopher Belrose Thomas
Cobb John Gould Thomas Beezly John Ferrell John Clements John
Hanley John Beldom and Joseph Gough or any of them at the Dwell-
ing Plantations or Places of abode of the said Thomas Turner
Christopher Belrose Thomas Cobb John Gould Thomas Beezly John
Ferrell John Clements John Hanley John Beldam and Joseph Gough
or any of them at some Convenient Time between the Tenth Day of
November next and the Twenty fifth Day thereof all their real and
personall Estate Either in Possession reversion remainder or in
Trust or in or unto which they have or any or Either of them hath
any Claim or Interest whatsoever and Do likewise betwixt the Days
aforementioned Convey Assign Transferr and make Over unto the
said sheriffs of Charles Ann Arundell Calvert Queen Ann's or Dor-
chester Countys for the use of their said Creditors all such their
Estate Interest or Claim as aforesaid after such Manner as by the said
Sheriffs and the Major Part of the said Creditors or of such of them
as shall think fitt to Direct therein or their Council learned in the
law shall reasonably Devise or require at the Cost and Charges of
such Persons as shall Claim the Benefitt thereof so as the said

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Thomas Turner Christopher Belrose Thomas Cobb John Gould
Thomas Beezly John Farrell John Clements John Hanley John Bel-
dom and Joseph Gough be not burthened with any warrantys thereby
Other then from themselves. and those that Claim by from or under
them and that the said Thomas Turner Christopher Belrose Thomas
Cobb John Gould Thomas Beezly John Farrell John Clements John
Hanley John Beldom and Joseph Gough and Every One of them at
the time of such their Surrender and Transferring their Estates as
aforesaid shall take his or their Solemn Oath or Oaths or Test before
the said Two Justices of the severall and respective Countys afore-
said so to be summoned as aforesaid to the Effect following Viz.
" I A B Do Solemnly Swear that the Goods Debts and Effects which
I have Delivered Assigned and made over to the Sheriff of
County and in Trust for the use of my Creditors is the whole Estate
both real and personal of my Own in Possession or have any Title
to in the world and that I have not any Estate Goods or Effects of
any kind whatsoever left Either in Possession reversion or remain-
der (the Necessary wearing Apparrell for my self wife and Children
Excepted) and that I have not Directly or Indirectly sold leased or
Otherwise Conveyed Disposed of or Intrusted all or Any part of my
Estate thereby to Secure the Same to receive or Expect any Profit
or Advantage thereof So help me God."