Provincial Court Proceedings, 1660. 393

Idem James Lindsey Attorney for Thomas Pryor dem^ts a Writt
at the suite of the said Pryor to arrest Gyles Glover in an accon of
the Case to the vallue of 600^l Tob & Caske
Warrant inde to the Sherr of Charles County retorn 19 ffebruary
next

Liber
P.C.R.
Pryor v.
Glover

Luke Gardner and Hugh Hopewell came in person and desired the
ensuing Pattent, and the sale thereof endorsed therupon to be entred,
w^ch followeth in his verbis (vizt)
Caecilius absolute Lord and Proprietary of the Provinces of Mary-
dfland, and Avfllnn, T.orH Baron of Baltimore &c. To all persons to
whom theis presents shall come Greeting Knowe yee That Wee for
and in consideration that Luke Gardiner of our said Province of
Maryland Planter transported himselfe and Julian his Sister into
that our said Province in the yeare 1647 there to inhabit and dwell,
And that hee the said Luke Gardiner may be the better enabled to doe
vs and our heires acceptable service within our said province Haue
by and with the advice of our Trusty and welbeloued William Stone
Esquier our Lieutenant of the said Province, and according to the
tennor of our Letters vnder our hand and Seale bearing date at
Portsmouth in the Realme of England the Eight day of August 1636
and recorded in the Secretaryes Office of our said Province Giuen

13 January
1660
Re
Gardner's
Land

and Granted, And by these presents for vs and our heires doe giue
Grant and Enfeoffe vnto the said Luke Gardiner All that parcell of
land lying on the Sowth side of Patuxent Riuer Begining at a markt
Cedar Tree standing nere the mouth of a Creeke called Gardiners
Creeke and runing West Northwest from the said Cedar for the
leingth of Sixty Perches to a markt Oake by a branch, and bound-
ing on the West with a lyne drawne Sowth up the Branch from the
said Oak for the leingth of flue hundred perches to a markt Oake on
the Sowth with a lyne drawne East from the last Oake vntill it
intersect a Paralell drawne from Gardners Creeke, On the East with
the said Creeke and paralell, On the North with the said Riuer
containeing and now laid out for two hundred acres more or less.
And all woods Quarres Mynes (Royall Mynes excepted) Waters
ffishings ffishing places, and all other proffitts and Commodities in
and upon the same land, Saucing to Vs & our heires our Royall Juris-
diction and Segniory as absolute Lords and Proprietaryes of the
said Province To haue and to hould the same to him the said Luke
Gardner his heires and Assignes foreuer. To be houlden of vs and
our heires as of our Mannor of West Saint Maryes in ffree and
Common Soccage by ffealty onely for all Services Yeilding and pay-
ing therefore yearely to vs and our heires at our vsuall Receipt at
Saint Maryes ffower shillings in money sterling or Two Bushells of
good Corne at the ffeast of the Nativity of our Lord, Giuen at Saint
Maryes vnder the Great Seale of our said Province of Maryland the

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