12        Chancery Court Proceedings, 1669.

       Liber C D   nothing Take whereby his Lordship may loose or that right may be
               Letten or disturbed or his Lordships debts delayed ye shall truely
               return and truely Serve his Lordships Writts as far forth as it shall
               be in your Cunning ye shall not have to be your under Sheriff any
               of the Sheriffs Clerks of the last year passed ye shall take no
               Bayliff into your Service but such as yee shall answer for ye shall
               make each of your Bailiffs make such Oath as yee make yourself in
               that that belongeth to their Occupa yee shall receive no
               writts by you or any of yours [unsealed] nor Sealed by any but the
               Justices of the Chan provinciall or County Courts or such
               officer as shallauthorizeLord prop yee shall
               make the Bayliff of                      and     [su]fficient men of your
               Countrey ye shall not let your Sherriffwick or any Bailiwicks thereof
             to perform to any yee shall truely Sett and return reasoneable and
         (fol. 10) due Issues of them that be within your Bailiwick after their Estate
               and Havior and make your pannell yourself of such persons as be
               most meet most sufficient and not suspected nor procured all these
               things ye shall well and truely observe and keep so help you God.

               The Inquisition upon the Estate of Simon Oversey at the psecution
                  of Mr. Rozer
                 Wee whose Names are hereunder written being by Virtue of a
               Commission from the Governor to M.r Henry Adams and M.r
               ffrancis Pope directed bearing date the twentieth day of Aprill Anno
               Doffi 1669 Summoned here according to the Tenour of the sd
               Com.n to enquire what Lands Simon Oversee dyed Seized of within
               this County of Charles County and what day he dyed and who is
               his next heir and the same Inquisition distinctly and speciely made
               under our hands and Seals to return to the sd M.r Henry Adams
               and M.r ffrancis Pope by them to be returned to the Honble the
               Chancellour of this province. Whereupon having enquired therein
               as much as in us lay we Return the Result of this our inquisition as
               followeth Vizt.
                 First we do Return that Simon Oversey dyed possesst of a Thou-
               sand Acres of Land on the East side of portobacco Creek which
               hath since his death been and remained in the possession of Ed-
               mond Lindsey and a peice of Land by him demised and lett out to
               John Caen and at his death in the Tenure and Occupation of the sd
               John Caen and five hundred and fifty Acres called Rotterdam lying
               near Nangemoy Indian Town which is all that to any of our
               knowledge he dyed possest of.
                 ffurther we do Return that the sd Simon Oversee dyed in the latter
               end on february or beginning of March ten years since or thereabouts
               to the best of our knowledges further that to any of our knowledges
               the sd Simon Oversey hath not left any heir to whom the Lands
               should descend and for the further Conferthacon of this our Inqui-
               sition we have hereunto Sett our hands and Seals as by the sd