Chancery Court Proceedings, 1674.   131





    our Said Assembly Should Sit was then near at hand We did for Liber C D
    divers Reasons us thereunto moveing prorogue the Same untill the
    19.th day of may now last past And upon the day of June then
    next following We did prorogue the Same untill the 29.th day of
    September now next Comeing now for as much as the Said 29.th
    day of September is nigh at hand And for divers reasons us there-
    unto moveing We have thought fit and do hereby declare & publish
    that the Same Generall Assembly Shall be & is hereby prorogued
    from the Said 29.th day of September untill the 13.th day of Aprill
    now next Comeing after the date whereof whereof as well o.r Cap.t
    Generall of our Said province as our members of our uppr house
    of Assembly as also all the Deputies & Delegates of our Lower
    house of Assembly and all other the Inhabitants of our Said province
    of maryland whom it may concern are to take notice & to order
    their affairs accordingly And we do hereby Ord.r & Command our
    Respective Sheriff of our Severall Countys that they upon Sight of
    this our proclamation do Imediately publish and proclaim the Same
    And Give the Respective deputies & Delegates of their Severall
    Counties particular notice of our will & pleasure therein Wittness
    our Self at our City of S.t maries the 15th day of August in the
    43.th year of our Dominion &C.a Annoq Dthi mdclxxiiii

    Sept.r the 8.th 1674
      Coffiiss.° under the Great Seale then issued to William Coursey
    Gent to be Sheriff of Talbot County w.th writt of assistance &
    discharge to Stephen Tully ut est fol. 67. [see pp. 77-8]

    Septemb.r y.e 8.th 1674
      Comiss.° under the Great Seale then issued to Benjamin Rozer
    Gent to be Sheriff of Charles County with writts of assistance & dis
    charge to John Allen ut est fol 67

    Septemb.r the 8.th 1674
      Cothiss.° under the Great Seale then issued to Robert Dunn Gent
    to be Sheriff of Kent County with writt of assistance Ut est fol 67

    Septemb.r the 9th 1674
      Coffiiss.° under the Great Seale then issued to Henry Darnall
    Gent to be Sheriff of Calvert County with writt of assistance &
    writt of discharge to Christopher Rousby ut est fol 67.

      Caecilius &C.a To the Sheriff of Ann Arundell County Greeting (fol. 139)
    Whereas in the Record Remaining in our Secretarys office it appears
    that we did by our Grant under our Great Seale of our Said province
    of Maryland bearing date the 8.th day of may 1666 Grant unto
    John Covill a parcell of Land Called Covills Lott Lying in the Coty