Chancery Court Proceedings, 1674-75.  143





    parcells of Land are worth by the year over and above the Rent Liber C D
    due to his Lordship they are Ignorant
                                 Ro:   Carvile sealed
                                 Ric Ladd sealed
    John Troster forsealed           George Whitle    sealed
    ffrancis Hutchins     sealed      W.m Barnet sealed
      his F H marke        his mark
    George Abbott sealed  Nicholas Carr sealed
     his marke             his mark
    James Humes   sealed  WT.m Ireland  sealed
      his H marke          his V marke
    James Thompsonsealed  James Elton   sealed
     his marke            Nathan Daw    sealed
    James Macall  sealed   his W mark
      his marke

     Caecilius &C.a To the Sheriff of Talbot County Greeting Whereas p. 121
    it appears in the Records in our Secretary's office Remaining in 151)
    our Said province that John Norwood late of our Said province
    Gent the 21.th Novemb.r 1663 had Surveyed for him one thousand
    acres of Land Lying in your County on the north Side of Chop
    tanck River Beginning at a marked white oake being the Souther
    most Bound Tree of the Land of Jerome White Esq & Running
    from the Said Oake for breadth Southwest three hundred pches to
    a point of marsh at the mouth of the north branch of the River
    bounded on the West by the Said branch the Length of five hundred
    pches North West on the north by a line drawn north East from
    the end of the north west line for breadth three hundred pches on the
    East by a line drawn South East from the End of the north East
    line to the Land of the Said White one hundred pches and by Whites
    Land unto the first markt cake on the South by the River on the
    West by the North branch Containing and now laid out for one
    thousand acres more or Less And Whereas we are In formed that
    the Said parcell of Land by Severall ways & means is Sythence
    become forfeited unto us and that one Edw.d Roe of yo.r Co.ty holds
    possession thereof without any Legall title or Right to Entitle him
    thereunto We Command you that by Lawfull men of your Bailywick
    you make known unto the Said Edward Roe that he be and appear
    before us in our Court of Chancery the ninth day of ffebruary next
    where it Shall then be to Shew Cause if any he have why the Said
    parcell of Land ought not to be Escheated unto us and the S.d Edw.d
    Roe be amoved from his possession thereof & hereof you are not to
    fail and that you make known unto our Said Justices in what
    manner you Execute this writt Wittness our Self at our City of S.t
    maries the ninth day of January 1674