474  Provincial Court Proceedings, 1665.

                Liber F F to the said Thomas Bennitt gently requiring him to make yor said
                  [p. 6z] Oratr further Conueyance & assurance of the said land, By fine to be
                     leauyed & acknowledged before yor Honnors, that a fine thereof might
                     haue been leauyed to the proper use and behoofe of yor Orator & his
                     heires for Euer, att the sole Charge in the law of yor said Comptt:
                     yet that to doe hee the said Tho Bennitt hath heitherto refused &
                     denyed & yet doth deny and refuse to doe the same Contrary to all
                     equity & Justice to the manifest deceiting & disinheriting of yor
                     Compit: of & in the said plantacon except speedy remedy be in due
                     time prouided to preuent the same
                       Wherefore the prmisses Considered & for as much as yor said
                       Orator hath noe direct accon by the Comon law to Compell the said
                       Bennitt to assure unto him this Comptt: the said plantacon according
                       to the said Bargaine thereof Itt may please yor Honnors the prmisses
                       Considered to grant unto him this Comptt: his lops writt of subpã to
                       be directed to the said Bennitt thereby Cothanding him att a Certaine
                       day and under a Certaine paine therein to be lymitted prsonally to be
                       & appeare before yor Honnors in the Prouinahl Court of Chancery on
                       the 10th day of Octobr next there to Answere unto the prmisses and
                       further to stand to and abide such Order and direccon therein as to
                       yor Honnors uppon the hearing of the said Cause shall seeme to bee
                       agreable wth right Equity & good Conscience—

                       This Indenture made the twentyth day of August in the yeare of
                     Our lord god One thowsand six hundred sixty flue Betweene Richard
                     Preston senior of Caluert County in the Prouince of Maryland of the
                     one part and Henry Stracy of London merchant on the other part
                     Wittnesseth That the said Richard Preston for and in Consideracon
                     of the sume of ten thowsand pounds of tobacco to him att and before
                 [p.62]   the Ensea!ing and deliuery of theise prsents well & truey in hand
                     paid by the said Henry Stracy whereof and wherewth he the said
                     Richard Preston doth acknowledge himselfe fully sattisfyed con
                     tented and paid, hath granted aliened bargained sold and Confirmed
                     and by these prsents doth fully Clearely and Absolutely grant alien
                     bargaine sell and Confirme unto the said Henry Stracy all that the
                     Mannor of Wolseley in Talbott County lying on the east side of Chese
                     piake Bay and on the north side of a riuer in the said Bay called Chop
                     tanck riuer beginning att a markt Oke upon a point by a marsh re
                     specting an Indian towne to the south east running north east up the
                     riuer for bredth 500 prches to a markt Cedar tree upon a point bound
                     ing on the north by a line drawne west north west from the said Cedar
                     for length 320 prches on the west by a line drawne south west from
                     the end of the west north west line for bredth 500 prches on the south
                     by a line drawne east south east from the end of the south west line
                     unto the first markt Oke on the east by the said riuer Contayning by
                     Estimacon One thousand acres more or less formerly in the tenor of