234   Chancery Court Proceedings, 1679.





       Liber C D  aeon and defrauded of his Tobacco to his Great Damage as by the
              Great Comp.lt of the Said Theophilus we have Received We do
              therefore hereby Strictly Charge and Command you that you take
              the Body of the s.d Christopher Haswell and him Safe keep untill
              he Shall Enter Good & Sufficient Security of the penalty of Eighty
              three thousand five hundred Twenty and Eight pounds of Tobacco
              to appear to the Said Acon and to Stand to & abide Such Judgm.t
              as Shall be thereupon Given by the Justices of our Said Provinciall
              Court at the hearing of the Cause & Satisfie & pay the Condemnacon
              mony or Tobacco if any be adjudged to the Said Theophilus Turford
              and hereof fail not at your peril and that you make Return of this
              our writt and your proceedings thereupon to our Justices of our Said
              Court to be held at our City of S :t marys the third day of June next
              Ensueing Wittness our Self at our City of St marys the Six and
              Twentieth day of Aprill [in the] year of our Lord one thousand
              six hundred Seventy nine [and] in the fourth year of our Dominion
              over our Said province of maryland

                To the R.t Hon.ble Charles absolute Lord & Prop ry of the Prov
              ince of Maryland
                The Humble Petition of [James] Pascall of Calvert County
              Sheweth
                That William Paggett Late of Ann Arundell County deceased
              dyed possessed of three hundred acres of Land Lying in the County
              af.d in his Demeasne as of ffee and Devised the Same Some time
              before he dyed in and by his last Will & Testam.t unto his two Sons
              and their heirs who dyed Orphants and your Petitioner
              the      Son of Sarah    the      Sister of the s.d
              Pagett doth Conceive himself to be heir to the Said Land and that
              the Same may be Legally Inquired into
                Yo.r petition.r doth most humbly beg your Lordpp to order that a
              mandamus issue to Nathan.” Heathcoate & George Parker Gent
              That by the Oaths of Twelve &C they diligently Inquire concrening
              the s.d Land And if the Same Shall happen to be Escheated to
              your Ldpp That yo.r petition.r may have thereof
                                  And in duty bound Shall pray &ca
                On the Backside of the foregoing Peticon was written Viz.t
              Let a Writt of mandamus issue out according to the request
              of the pet.r
              To W.m Calvert Esq Sec.ry         C Baltemore
                      or to his Chief Clerke

              may 3.d 1679
                Mandamus then issued to Nathaniell Heathcoate & George Parker
              Gentl that by the [Oathes of t] welve &C they Enquire what Lands
              William Paggett dyed s[eized of &] ret without delay