Chancery Court Proceedings, 1675.   57





     Tobacco p Annum but what Rent hath been paid for the Same by Liber C D
     whom or to whom or whether any Rent be due to be paid for the
     Same they know not, And the said Jurors do further on their Oaths
     Say that the sd Land was pt of the sd mannor In Testimony whereof
     as well the Said Com.rs as the Jurors afores.d have hereunto put their
     hands and Seals y.e day & year aboves.d
                                  Tho Sprigg (seal)
                                 Ro: Carvile (seal)
     Cuthbert ifenwick     (seal)    Jn.° Nothall (seal)
     John Gittings (seal)    the mark of
     John Darnall  (seal)  Jonath Preyter... . (seal)
     Robert ifenwick(seal)  the mark of
     Richard ifenwick(seal)          W.m W Wilson (seal)
     Peter Joy     (seal)  John Haller     (seal)
     W.m Innis     (seal)  W.m Hill        (seal)
     ffeb.ry the 9th 1674                    (fol. 166)
      The aforegoing Inquisition being Read in open Court It was the
     Judgm.t of his Lordship's Justices then present that the Sd one
     hundred Sixty five acres of Land Specified in the Said Inquisition
     is Escheat & forfeited to his Lordship the Lord Proprietary the S.d
     Emperor Smith & Abdelo martin being aliens at the time of their
     decease
      And the Same Land afterwards Granted by the Lieutent Gen.ll &
     under the Great Seal of this province unto John Peerce Chirurgeon
     for the Consideration of five thousand pounds of Tobacco

      On the Backside of a Writt of Mandamus bearing date the 21th
     day of march in the 43.th year of the Dominion of CaeciIius &
     Annoq Dom 1674 Entred Lib° R: R fo: 157 & directed to Robert
     Carvile & Tobias Norton Gent diligently to enquire by the Oaths
     of 12 Good & Lawfull men of Calvert what Lands & Tenem.ts
     John Little late of the Same County deced dyed Seized of at the
     time of his Death &c.a was written as follows
      The Execution of this Commission appears by a Certain Inqui
     sition hereunto Annexed  Robert Carvile
                               Tobias Norton
      By Virtue of his Lpps Commission in the nature of a writt of
     mandamus issued out of his Lpps high Court of Chancery to us
     Robert Carvile & Tobias Norton Gent directed We Command &
     Require you that you Cause to Come before us at the house of
     Thomas Cosden in Battle Town in Putuxent & County of Calvert
     on monday y.e 26.th day of Ap.ll Instant Twelve Good & Lawfull
     men of your Bailywick by whom the truth of ye matter may be the
     better known diligently to Enquire what Land & Tenem.ts John
     Little of Calvert County af.d deced held of us in his Demeasne as of
     ffee at the time of his Death & of what manno.r & by what Services