Provincial Court Proceedings, 1659. 373

And being putt to the Vote. The Judgm^t of the Councell is M^r
Baker Brooke Not, because the whole business was not sent home
to his LP.
M^r Rob^t Clearke Not, ffor the same reason.
Co^ll Nath: Vtye, Not, The Busines being not fully sent home, nor
Appeale graunted for to haue the whole busines determined con-
cerning the Land: But only where his L^ps Manno^r of Snow Hill is.
Co^tt John Price. Noe finall Determinaon.
D^r Luke Barber The same.
Gouerno^r. Noe final Determinaon.
But Ordered to be entred uppon Record, though not as a ffinall
Determinaon.
And further Order^d, That Summons issue, to M^r Richard Willan
& M^r James Lindsey Ad audiendu^m Judiciu next Provinciall Court.
The Determinaon of the Cause touching Snow Hill betwixt Thom-
as Gerard Esq^r plf, & James Lindsey & Richard Willan defts made
by the Right Hon^ble the Lord Baltemore, Lord & Proprietary of
Maryland to whom itt was referred by Appeale. Se + ale
Hauing perused the State of the Case concerning Snow Hill,
Betweene Thomas Gerard Esq^r plf, & Richard Willan & James
Lindsey defts, sent unto Vs by way of Appeale ffrom Our Prouinciall
Court of Maryland, And finding it not proued by the plf that Susan
his Wife in whose right hee claimes, as heyre att Law to her Brother
Abel is heyre to Abell Snow, but are fully satis fyed by the notoriety
of the thing, that shee is not, hee hauing a Brother or Brothers of
the whole Blood yett lyuing... And finding th^t the s^d Land was ffor-
feited to Vs by the Act for Deserted Plantations,
ffor by the Coppie of the Record sent unto Vs, & attested by the plf

Liber
P. C. R.

wee find that the plf entred his Claime to the s^d Lands as heyre att
Law in right of his Wife & Children not untill the Twentith of March
One Thowsand Six hund^d ffifty one, And that by the Act for De-
serted Plantaons he ought to haue entred & made his Claime good &
payd all arreares of Rent before the ffiue & Twentith of March One
Thowsand six hund^d ffifty one W^ch according to the English ac-
compt w^ch begins the yeare of Our Lord on the ffiue & Twentith of
March, & according to the true intent and meaning of the sayd Act,
was neere a yeare after it should haue bene done, and that the sayd
Land was accordingly seized by Vs, and graunted to the defend^ts.
Wee doe Determine that the Plantiffe hath noe Title to the sayd
Plantation Gyuen under Our hand and Seale att Armes this Eleau-
enth day of August One Thowsand six hund^d ffifty and nine
C: Baltemore.
The Court adiorned by the Gouerno^r till munday morning att
ii a Clock

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