244   Chancery Court Proceedings, 1679.





        Liber C D  Annoq Domini one thousand Six hundred fifty & Eight the sd Ld
               Prop.ry for the Consideracön therein Expressed did Grant unto yor
               Petr a pcell of Land Called Reading Lying on the South Side of
               Read's Creek in Chester River Butted & Bounded as in the sd Patent
               is Expressed Containing & Laid out for four hundred & fifty acres
               more or Less
                 That yo.r pet.r hath Enjoyed the Same Ever Since till of late
               Certain psons viz.t Robert Smith Thomas Heylius & Thomas Hynson
               have upon Colour of Some defect in the Mathematicall or Artificiall
               lines of yo.r pet.rs Said Patent (Notwithstanding the Same Land is
               in the Same Fatent Bounded by naturali Bounds) Incr oachcd upon
               the sd Tract of Land And taken Patent or Patents for the Chief part
               of the Same without any Speciall warrant from yor Lopp or yor
               Governo.r for their So doing thereby Endeavouring to defeat yor
               pet.r of the Principall & best part of the Said Land
                 Yo.r Pet.” therefore humbly prays that yo.r Lopp will Graciously
               please to Grant yo,r Lopps Speciall warrt of Resurvey to be directed
               to Some able Artist to Lay out the af :d Tract of Land according to
               the naturall bounds Expressed in the s.d Patent And that if it Shall
               appear there be more than four hund.d & fifty acres w.thin the Same
               Bounds Yo.r pet.r may be admitted upon proveing & applying of
               Rights to take the Same up And that yo.r pet.” may upon Such
               Resurvey have a Patent of Confirmacon from your Lopp for the
               four hund.d & fifty acres Shall appear to be intended by the S.d
               Patent Pet.r took up really & Bona fide according
               to the Cond[itions] of plantation therein being and Published by
               yo.r Lopp      father deed
                 And your Petition.” as in duty bound Shall ever pray &c
         P. 199  On the Back Side of the aforegoing Petition    was written Viz.t
         (fol. 239)Let a Speciall warrant of Resurvey be Granted to  the Petition.r to
               have the Land within menconed Laid out not onely by the lines of
               m.r Clerk's Survey but also by the naturall Bounds    mentioned in the
               Patent that by View of both the Court may be the better able to do
               y.r pet.rs Right                 C Baltemore
               To W.m Calvert Escp Sec.ry
                 Whereas Mathew Read of Talbot County hadGranted unto him
               by Letters Patent under the Great Seal of this   Province bearing
               date the Eighteenth day of January Annop Domini  one thousand Six
               hund.d fifty Eight a parcell of Land for four    hundred & fifty acres
               Lying on the East Side of Chesepeake bay & on the     South Side of a
               River in the S.d Bay Called Chester River on the South Side of a
               Creek in the s.d River Called Reads CreekBeginning at a marked
               oake upon a Point by a branch, tending East,     Running for breadth
               South West & by South one hundred Sixty & five   perches to a branch
               Called Reads back Branch bounding on the South   by a line drawn