102   Chancery Court Proceedings, 1673.





       Liber C D  Ridgely at the office for what Shall be due for arrears of Rent
              w.ch Said Ridgely is hereby Ordered to make diligent Search for
              what Shall be due & their to receive the Same or take Caution for
              it from the pet.r and further Ordered that a melius Inquirendum
              issue according to the prayer of the petition Given under my hand
              this 17.th of July 1673         Charles Calvert

               Cæcilius &c To Thomas Howell James ifrisby and William
              Dunkerton of our County of Baltemore Gentl Greeting Whereas
              by a Certain Inquisition before Thomas Howell & James ifrisby Gentl
              of our County of Baltemore by our Command taken and in or Chan.ry
              returned It appeareth that John Hatton deceased had divers lands &
              Tenements in our S.d Co.ty of Baltemore & of them at the time of,
              his Death dyed Seized and who is his next heir the Juro.rs know not
              Notwithstanding Thomas Hatton of Tewkesbury in the County of
              Glocester in the Kingdom of England a brother & next heir of the S.”
              John Hatton and of the age of one and Twenty years & upwards
              and that the S.d John Hatton held at the time of his death Six
              hundred acres of Land Commonly known by the name of Hatton's
              Island and by Common Report three hundred acres of Land in
              Rumley Creek on the East Side of the Creek that he purchased the
              S.d Six hundred acres of Godfrey Harmo.r and as for ye yearly
              valuation the Juro.rs know not being never Seated but always
              Rough land and because it is not Specified in the Said Inquisition.
              who is the next heir of the Said John Hatton, nor of what value
              the hands & Tenem.ts are and what Estate the s.d John Hatton dyed
              Seized of nor by what Right he held the Same, and also because we
              are Given to understand that the Said John Hatton held more &
              other Lands in our S.d County of Baltemore at the time of his
          Death than are Specified in the said Inquisition We being Willing
          of the truth of the premisses to be better Certifyed have assigned you
          or any two of you to Inquire by the Oaths of Twelve Good and
          Lawfull men of our Said County of Baltemore what more or other
          Lands & Tenem.ts the s.d John Hatton held in our Said County of
          Baltemore & at the time of his Death of whom the Said Lands and
          Tenem.ts are holden and by what Rent & Services and how much
         p. 8g    they are of value by the year and who hath Occupyed or doth occupy
        (fol.the Said Lands and Tenem.ts Since the time of the Death of the
          Said John Hatton, and who hath received or doth Receive the
          issues any profits thereof and by what Title & who is his next heir,
          Therefore We Command you or any two of you that at a Certain
          day & place by you to be appointed by the oaths of Twelve Good and
          Lawfull men of our Said County of Baltemore you make Inquisi
          tion of the premisses and how and in what manner you Shall Execute
          this our precept, and the Inquisition by you made distinctly & openly
          to us in our Chancery under your hands & Seales and the hands and
          Seales of them by whom the Inquisition Shall be made without