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      fine thread, one pound of Nutmegs three thousand pins one Coasting Liber C D
      Coat one doz.n of Stock locks one pair of Shoes, one Rundlett with
      Brandy and one match Coat dat 16.th August ret    Octob.r 1678.

        An Inquisition Indented taken at the Court house for Baltemore (fol. 115)
      County the Six and Twentieth day of August in the 42th year of the
      Dominion of the Right Hon.ble Cæcilius absolute Lord Proprietary
      of the provinces of Maryland and Avalon Lord Baron of Baltemore
      &c and in the year of our Lord God 1673 before Thomas Howell
      & William Dunkerton of the Same County Gent By virtue of a
      Commission of melius Inquirendum To Thomas Howell James
      ifrisby and William Dunkerton or two of them directed, And to this
      Inquisition annexed to Enquire after the Death of John Hatton
      deceased by the oaths of Gideon Gundry Benjamin Gundry, William
      Pierce, John Cock, John Ryland Phillip Hollerger, Richard Leake,
      Nicholas Allum Henry Eldsely Hendick ifreeman, Neales Vrinson,
      James Heborne who Say that the Said John Hatton was Seized in
      his Demeane as of ffee on the day that he dyed of and in one parcelt
      of Land Cont.d three hundred acres Called Hermons Mount & by
      him purchased of one Gothf red Herman W.Ch was held of the Lord
      prop.ry as of his manno.r of Baltemore in free and Common Soccage
      by ifealty only for all Services yeilding and paying therefore yearly p. 91
      unto the Said Lord proprietary and his heirs the yearly Rent of Six (fol. 115)
      Shillings Sterling. And more that the Said John Hatton dyed Seized
      of in his Demeane as of ffee of Six hundred acres of Land Called
      Spry Hill and by him purchased of one Oliver Spry which was held
      of the Said Lord proprietary as of his manno.r of Baltemore in free
      & Common Soccage by ifealty only for all Services Yeilding and pay-
      ing therefore yearly unto the Said Lord proprietary and his heirs
      the yearly Rent of Twelve Shillings Sterling and moreover that the
      S.d John Hatton dyed Seized of in his Demeane as of ffee of four
      hundred acres of Land Called Persimmon point and by him pur-
      chased of one James Rigbie w.ch was held of the S.d Lord prop.ry
      of his manno.r of Baltemore in free and Common Soccage by fealty
      only for all Services Yeilding &c paying therefore yearly unto the
      Said Lord prop.ry and his heirs the yearly Rent of Eight Shillings
      Sterling and that the Said Jno Hatton in the Said Inquisition named
      dyed the third day of may one thousand Six hundred Sixty three,
      and That Thomas Hatton of Tewkesbury in the County of Glocester
      in the kingdom of England Brother to the S.d John Hatton is his
      next heir. And that the sd John Hatton at the time of his Death had
      not nor was Seized of any other Land, and Tenem.ts in the S.d
      County of Baltemore to the best of the Knowledge of the Said
      Jurors. In Wittness whereof to one p.t of this Inquisition in the
      hands of the Said Corn.r3 Remaining as well the Said Thomas Howell
      and William Dunkerton Com.rs as the Jurors their hands & Seals
      have put, But to the other p.t thereof in the hands of the S.d Juro.rs