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     delay you Send and this Writt for we have commanded our Sheriff Liber C D
     of Baltemore County that at Such day and place as you Shall make
     known unto him he Cause to Come before you Twelve Good and
     Lawfull men of his Bailywick to be ready upon their oaths to Recog
     nize upon the premissses, Wittness our Self at our City of S.t maries
     the 12.th day of August in the Year &c Annoq Doth 1673

      Cæcilius &c To the Sheriff of Balt County Greeting We Command
     you Summon Twelve Good & Law full men of your Bailywick that
     they be before our Trusty & Well beloved, Thomas Howell, James
     ifrisby and William Dunkerton Gent or any two of them at the
     Certain day & place that they the S.d Thomas Howell, James ffnisby
     & W.m Dunkerton or any two of them Shall make known unto you,
     ready upon their Oaths to Recognize what Lands and Tenements John
     Hatton deced held at the time of his Death in our County of
     Baltemore and of whom the Same are holden & by what Rents &
     Services & of how much value they are by the year and who doth
     occupy or hath Occupyed the S.d Lands & Tenem.ts Since the day of
     the Death of the S.” John Hatton and who hath Received & doth
     receive the profits thereof and by what Title and who is next heir;
     and that you Imbreviate their names and have you there the names
     of those Twelve & this writt Wittness our Self &c 12.th August 1673.

      Cæcilius &c To Samuell Hatton & Godfrey Harmour Greeting
     for Certain Causes proposed before us in our Chancery we Command
     & firmly injoyn you and Each of you that all busieness Set a part
     and all Excuses Ceasing you be in your proper persons before our'
     Trusty and well beloved Thomas Howell James ifrisby and W.m
     Dunkerton Gent or any two of them at Such day and place as by
     them Shall be made known unto you to Testify the truth in a matter
     depending before them and by them then & there to be Examined on
     the part of Thomas Hatton and this in no wise you are to Omitt under
     the pain of one hundred pounds Sterling apiece and have you there
     this writt, Wittness our Self at our City of S.t marys the twelfth
     day of August 1673.


      Cæcilius &c To the Sheriff of S.t maries County Greeting Whereas (fol. 114)
     John Wahob hath come before us in our Court of Chan.ry and hath
     found Suficient Security as well his Clamo.r to psecute as for his
     Servant George Mills Abell James took & unjustly detains (as
     it is Said) to be Returned if the Return of him be adjudged there
     fore we Charge & Command you that the Servant afores.d to the
     Said John Wahob Replevyed to be & delivered you Cause & put by
     Surety & Safe pledge the afores.d Abell James that he be before or
     Justices of our provinciall Court on the first day of the Said Court
     to be held at the City or S.t maries the Eleventh day of November