146 Chancery Court Proceedings, 1674-75.





        Liber CD   as also upon those things w.ch Should then & there be objected ag.t
               them and further to do & Receive what our Said Court Sho.d Con
               sider of in that behalf and our S.d Sheriff Returned into our Said
               Chancery that he had fully Executed our     Writt and that the Said
               Richard Perry and mary Bateman were not to be found in his
               Bailywick to the Great Contempt of us and as well to the        rogation
               of our Laws as Disinherison of us of our Jurisdiction & Seigniory
               w.thin this our province And We lying to keep our Laws of this
               our province from being inged and punish all the Impugnes
               of them & to do what is Just in this part We have assigned you our
               Beloved major Thomas Brooke Thomas Spnigg ffrancis Swanston &
        (fol. 154) Roger Brooke four of the Comissioners Joyntly or Severally them
               the S.d Rich.d Perry and Mary Bateman wheresoever they Shall be
               found as well within Liberties as without by their Bodys as Rebells
               you attach & them to Lead to our prison of our Said County and
               them to Deliver to our Sheriff of our S.d Co.ty in Safe & Secure
               Custody to be kept untill we shall further Comand, and therefore We
               do Comand & firmly Enjoyn you & Every of you that you be aiding
               assisting & helping unto the Sd maj.r Thomas Brooke Thomas Spnigg
               ffrancis Swanston & Roger Brooke & Every or any of them in
               Executing our will & pleasure herein So often as you or any of you
               by them or any of them on our part in the prmisses are prmonished
               And we do Comand the S.c' maj.r Tho8 Brooke, Thos Spnigg Francis
               Swanston & Rogr Brooke y.t they make return unto us in our Chan
               cery on the ninth day of ffebruary next under the Seals of them or
               any two of them how they Shall Execute this our Commission that
            p. 124 we may Cause further to be done th?ein as our Said Court Shall think
         (fol. ‘54) fitt In Testimony whereof we have Caused these our Letters to be
               made Patents Wittness our Self at our City of S.t maries this 4.th
               of January in the 43.th year of our Dominion &Ca Annocp Dom 1674
                              Endorsed
               By the Court for not answering the Bill of Henry Scarborough

                 Caecilius &c To the Commission.rs of Baltemore Co.tY Court Greet
               ing Whereas Thomas Marsh late of o.r Co.tY of Ann Arundell Gent
               hath been prsented in our Said Court of Baltemore Co.tY before
               you for Certain Trespasses & Contempts Contrary to the form of
               the Act of Assembly against getting of Bastard Children made &
               Enacted within our Said province our will being for Certain Causes
               that all & Singular the prsentm.ts for whatsoever Trespasses and
               Contempts ag.t the Said Act the S.d Thomas Marsh before you in or
               Said Court Standeth prsented (as it is Said) Should be determined
               before us & not Else where, We do therefore Command you &
               Every of you that all & Singular the S.d prsentm.ts with the Teno.r
               of the Record Concerning the Same So full & Intirely as before you
               ye Same was taken by what name soever the Said Thomas be Called