168Chancery Court Proceedings, 1675-76.





         Liber C D Caecilius &c To the Sheriff of Caecil County Greeting Whereas it

        p. 140 (fol. I74)    appeareth in the Records for Land Remaining in our Secretarys
               office that by our Grant under our Great Seal of o.r s.d Province of
               maryld bearing date the 7.th day of January in the 28th year of our
               Dominion Annoq Domini 1659 Grant unto Cap.t Thomas Howell
               now late deced all that parcell of Land Called ifarley Lying on the
               East Side Chesepeake Bay on the South Side of a Creek Called
               ifendalls Creek Beginning at a marked Oake near the mouth of the
               sd Creek Respecting the Land of Josias ffendall Esp to the East
               Running South South west down the Bay for breadth three hundred
               Twenty perches to a marked Oake by the Bay Side Bounding on the
               South by a line drawn East from the Said oake for Length three
               hundred & twenty pches on the East by a line drawn North North
               East for breadth Three hundred Twenty five pches untill it Inter
               sects a paralell drawn from ifendalls Creek on the North by the Said
               Creek and paralell on the west by the sd Bay Containing and Laid
               out for Six hundred & fifty acres more or Less And the Said
               Thomas Howell (as we are Informed haveing Surreptitiously ob
               tained a patent for the said parcell of Land Contrary to our Con
               ditions of plantation of our sd Province We Comand you that by
               Good & Lawfull men of yor Bailywick you make known to the
               heirs of the s.d Cap.t Thomas Howell or the heirs of James Brown
               late deced that they be before us in our Court of Chancery y.e 8.th
               day of ffebruary next to Shew Cause if any they have wherefore
               the Letters patent of the Land af.d made ought not to be Revoaked
               & adnulled & the Same into our hands he Seized & further to do &
               Receive what our S.d Court Shall do or Grant to be done in this
               behalf And how you Shall Execute this precept you make known to
               our Said Court the day afores.d & have you there this writt Wittness
               our Self at our City of S.t maries y.e 11th day of Jan.ry in y.e 44.th
               year of our Dominioti &c Annoq Domini 1675

               RC       Thomas Spnigg Comp.lt ag.t Thomas Truman &
               Nathan.” Truman def.ts Subp: to Testifie Thomas Gant Jn.° Gittings
               Thomas Mountfort James Nuthall Jn.° Nuthall & Charles Carat r
               8.th ffeb:

                S.r Being not able to Give my attendance this first day of our
              Court I hereby request you to meet y.e usuall Number to make
               a Co.rt & then to adjourn untill tomorrow morning nine of ye
               Clock to S.t John's where I shall desire y.e Court may be held by
               Reason of Some Little Indisposition of
                              Yo.r affectionate Kindsman & Servant
                                              Charles Calvert