158   Chancery Court Proceedings, 1675.





       Liber C D  & how much those Lands & Tenem.ts are of value by the year in
              all issues & at what time the Said John Little dyed & who is his
              next heir & of what age the heir is & who those Lands & Tenem.ts
              from the time of the Death of the Said John Little have or doth
              Occupy & the issues & profits thereof have or do Receive & by what
              Ttile & how & in what manner And for yo.r So doing this Shall be
              your Sufficient warrant Given und.r our hands & Seals this 6.th day
              of Aprill in the year of Lord 1675 Robert Carvile (seal)
              To m.r Henry Darnall high Sheriff Tobias Norton (seal)
                 of Calvert County
            133 An Inquisition Indented taken the 26.th day of Aprill in the 43.th
        (o year of the Dominion of Caecilius &C.a Annoq Domini 1675 at the
              house of Thomas Cosden in Calvert Co.tY in the province of mary
              land before us Robert Carvile and Tobias Norton Gent by virtue of a
              Comicon in the nature of a of mandamus issued out of his Lordship's
              high Court of Chancery to us directed by the Oaths of twelve Good
              & Lawfull of the Same County diligently to Enquire what Lands
       (fol. 167) and Tenements John Little of the Same County deced held of the
              Right Hon.ble the Lord Propry in his demeasne as of ffee at the time
              of his Death & of what mannor & by what Services and how much
              those Lands & Tenem.ts are of value by the year in all issues & at
              what time the Said John Little dyed & who is his next heir & of what
              age the heir is & who those Lands & Tenem.ts from the time of the
              death of the Said John Little have or doth Occupy & the issues &
              profits have or do Receive & by what Title & how & in what manner
              by the Oaths of Charles Boteler, Samuell Goosey, ffrancis Street
              Thos Bumpass William House Thomas Edwards Robert Rider
              Griffith George Jn.° Leach W.m Kidd Timothy Gunton & Thomas
              Bancks who being by us duly Sworn Say upon their Oaths as
              followeth
                That the Said John Little dyed in the month of September Anno
              Dñi 1666 Seized & possessed of a parcell of Land Lying on the
              north Side of Putuxent River & on the South Side of a Creek of the
              Said River Called Hunting Creek adjoyning to the Land of John
              Davis planter Cont.a Two hundd & fifty acres held in ifealty only by
              ifree and Common Soccage under the yearly Rent of five Shillings
               Land the houses thereupon built is worth Eight hundred
              pounds of Tobacco p annum but of what manno.r the Same is holden
              they do not know
                Also the Said Jurors upon their Oaths Say that the S.d Jn.° Little
              dyed Seizd of a pcell of Land Called Clahamond Cont.a three hundd &
              fifty acres Lying on the East Side of Putux.t River above the head
              of Hunting Creek in ye Woods adjoyning to a parcell of Land
              formerly belonging to the Said John Little Called Little Town upon
              w.ch Land there is a Small plantation w.ch land & plantation is worth
              one hundred pounds of Tobacco p annum over & above all issues &
              Reprizes but of what manor ye Same is holden they know not