242   Chancery Court Proceedings, 1679.





        Liber CD  thereof distinctly and openly made to us in our Chancery under yo.r
               hands & Seals & the hands and Seals by whom it Shall be made
               w.thout delay you Send & this Writt Wittness our Self dat 15.th
               march 1678

                Charles &c To Clement Hill & Richd Loyd of S.t marys Co.ty Gent
               Greeting We Comand you that by the Oaths of Twelve Good & Law-
               full men of our S.d County of S.t marys by whom the truth of the
               matter may the better be known & Enquired of you diligently Enquire
               who is the Right owner & heir of a tract of Land Called the mill
               Land Lying at the head of Brittan's Bay in our S.d County of S.t
               marys & of what mannor & what age the heir is & under what
               Rents & Services & how much those Lands and Tenem.ts are of
               value by the year in all issues & who those Land and Tenem.ts hath
               or doth Occupy & the issues & profits hath or doth receive & by
               what Title and how & in what manner & who hath paid the Rent
               for the Same & to whom & the Inquisition thereof distinctly and
               openly made to us in our Chancery under yor hands & Seals & the
               hands & Seals by whom it Shall be made without delay you Send
               & this Writt Wittness our Self dat 15.th June 1678

              Ap.” 24.th 1679
                Mandamus then issued to Robert Carvile & John Manley of S.t
               Marys County Gentl that by the Oaths of xij &c they Enquire what
               Lands Robert Sheale dyed Seized of &C ret without delay

                Charles &c To Ignatius Mathews of Charles County Greeting We
               Lommand you that Imediately after the Sight hereof you pay unto
               W.m Gwyther of S.t Mary's Co.ty or the bearer of this writt the
               Sume of Six thousand two hund.d & Seven pounds of Tobacco,
               Costs adjudged him the S.d Wm Gwyther by o.r Court of Chan.ry
               in a Cause there depending between him the S.d W.m Comp.lt & you
               defend.t & hereof you are not to fail under the pain Ensueing Witt
               ness our Self at our City of S.t marys y.e 5.th day of July in the
               third year of our Dominion &a Annoq Dom 1678
                The Originall was Delivered by m.r John Hartwell on the third
               day of Octob.r 1678             Robert Carvile
                On the backside of y.e aforegoing writt was Written Viz.t
                W.m Gwyther p.lt Ignatius mathews deft
                John Hartwell maketh Oath that upon the third day of Octob.r
               Instant he did deliver to mr John Breed of Charles Coty a writt of
               Subp.a issued out of the high Court of Chancery of which this is a
               Copy under the Seale of this Court & that the S.d Ignatius Mathews
               & his mother the wife of m.r John Breed was then & there prsent &
               this Depon.t did then demand of the S.d Ignatius & his s.d father