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110 Chancery Court Proceedings, 1673-74. Liber C D Command you therefore that by Good & Law full men of your Bailywick you make known & Give Warning unto Thomas Gerrard (Son of the Deced) who Claimeth the Same under him. That he be before us in our Court of Chancery the fourteenth day of Aprill next wheresoever it Shall then be, to Shew Cause if any he have wherefore the Said Letters patent of the S.d Land as afores.d made ought not to be Revoaked & Annulled & the Same into our hands be Seized And to do & Receive what our Said Court Shall do or Grant to be done in this behalf and how you Shall Execute this precept that you make known to our Said Court at the day aforesaid and have you there this Writt Wittness our Self at our City of S.t maries the ninth day of march in the 42.th year of our Dominion over our said province Annoq Domini 1673. Cæcilius &c To Joseph Weeks & John Wright of Kent Co.ty Gentl Greeting We Command you that by the Oaths of twelve Good & Law full men of yuut Said County by whom the truth uth of the matter may the better be known & Inquired of that you diligently Inquire whether Andreas Elinor a Spaniard late of yo.' County deced was Seized in his Demeasne as of ffee at the time of his Death of a Cer- tain Tract of Land Called Stoopley Gibson Lying on the north East Side of the Isle of Kent formerly Granted unto Henry Stoope & John Gibson & Containing 150 acres of what manno.r p Ut another of the Same nature fo: 441 Dated 4.th march 1673 p.95 Spa ag.t John Clement, Thomas Vaughan and John Ingram to (fol. 120;) appear in Chan.ry ats Jn.° Edmondson ret 14.th Ap.'1 next Dated 14.th march 1673 Spa ag.t John Wright to hear Judgm.t ats Toby Wells ret 14.th Ap.ll Test 14.th march An Inquisition Indented taken at the house of m.r Thomas Dent in St marys County the 6.th day of ffebruary 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 Henry Hide and Richard Uoyd Gentl by virtue of a writt of mandamus to us directed and to this Inquisition annexed to Inquire after the Death of John (fol. 121) Pritchett deceased by the Oaths of George macall, W.m Cannaday, Will.m Watts Robert Crane, Robert Jones, Patrick ifoorest Sen.r Peter Watts, ffrancis Hill, William Harper, Thomas Bennett, John Macky, Jonathan Squire, who say that the S.d John Pritchett was Seized in his Demeasne as of ffee on the day that he dyed of and in one parcell of Land Containing 350 acres Called Tinkerly or Wiekahandiek which was held of the Said Lord Proprietary as of his manno.r of West S.t maries in free and Common Soccage by ifealty only for all Services Yeilding and paying therefore yearly unto the |
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