160  Chancery Court Proceedings, 1675.





        Liber C D may the 4.th 1675
                The aforegoing Inquisition being Read in Open Court it was ye
              Judgm.t of his Lpps Justices then present that the Severall pcells of
              Land Specified in the Said Inquisition are Escheat & forfeited to his
              Ldp the Lord Prop.ry the Said John Little dying without an heir

              may 13.th 1675
                Mandamus then issued to Joseph Weeks & Henry Hosier of Kent
              Co.tY Gent that by the Oaths of twelve &c.a they Enquire what Lands
              Deliverance Lovely dyed Seized of & ret without delay

                Caecilius &C To the Sheriff of Somerset County Greeting Whereas
              upon the 19.th day of January 1663 a Condiconall warr.t for one
              thousand acres of Land issd from our Lieuten.t of our S.d province
              unto George Nasworthy of Nansoamin in James River in the Colony
              of Virginia Gent to lay out the Same for him in any pt of this
              province Provided he should make Good Rights for the Same
              within twelve months next Ensuing the date of the Said Conditionall
              warr.t & in pursuance thieof y.e Sd Geo: Nasworthy had one thousand
              acres of Land Laid out for him in manokin River Called Nas
              worthy's Choice Lying on the South Side of manokin Riv.r Cont.a
              one thousand acres more or Less And Whereas the s.d George Nas
              worthy never made Good Rights for the Same according to ye Teno.r
              of the sd warr.t So Granted to him as aforesaid whereby the s.d
              Land is become Escheated unto us and for that William Thompson
              of yo.r Co.ty Gent without any Recitall or menconing of the S.d
              Conditionall warr.t of the s s.d Geo Nasworthy hath by virtue of a
              patent Surreptitiously obtained from or under or Great Seal of our
              Said province bearing date the first day of Octobt in the fortieth
              year of our Dominion &c.a by him & his heirs Entered into & upon
              five hundred acres part of the premisses And whereas also Thomas
              Jones of your County Gent by assignm.t of the S.d Nasworthy hath
              also procured patent for the Said one thousand acres of Land
              formerly Surveyed for the said Nasworthy dated the first of oct.r
              in the 41th year of our Domniion &a to our Great prejudice dis
              inherizon of us & our heirs of the premisses as it is Said And that
              we may have Speedy Right & Justine in & Concerning the Same &
       (fol. 169) that all & Singular the Sd Letters patents as well to him the Said
              W.m Thompson as the sd Letters patents to him the Said Tho: Jones
              So as afores.d Granted may be Revoaked & adnulled And the Said
              Lands into our hands as our Right may be Seized & the Said W.m &
              Thomas & all the Tenants & Occupiers thereof from the possession
              thereof may be amoved We Command you that by Good and Lawfull
              men of your Bailywick you make known & Give warning to the
              Said William Thompson & Thomas Jones & all others the Tennants
              and Occupiers of the Said Land that they he before us in our Chan