250   Chancery Court Proceedings, 1679.





        Liber CD RR    Subpas Robert Atchison Son & heir of Vincent At
               chinson & Hannah his wife deced & Samuell Tovey Adm.r of all
               & Singular y.e Goods Chattells Rights & Credits of the s.d Vincent
               Atchinson deed ats John Baker dat 28.th June returnable Imediately

               Maryland ss. Jn.o Halfhead Inquisition
                An Inquisition Indented taken this present munday being the
               Twelfth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand Six
               hundred Seventy & Eight at the house of Henry Elliott in S.t Marys
               County before us Robert Carvile & Walter Hall Gent by Virtue of a
               Commission iss.d out of his Lopps high Court of Chancery in the
               nature of a Mandamus to us directed Whereby we are Commanded
               by the Oaths of Twelve Good & Lawfull men of the County afores.d
               by whom the truth of the matter may be the better known & Enquired
               of that we diligently Enquire what Lands John Halfhead late of S.t
               Marys County af.d deceased dyed Seized of at the time of his Death
               as of ffee in the County of S.t Marys & of what manno.r & under
               what Rents and Services and how much those Lands & Tenem.ts are
        (fol. 244) of value in the year in all issues & at what time the s.d John Half-
               head dyed & who is his next heir & what age the heir is and who
               those Lands & Tenem.ts from the time of the Death of the John
               Half head hath or doth Occupy & the issues & profits hath or doth
               receive & by what Title & how & in what manner & who hath paid
               the Rent for the same & to whom by the Oaths of Elias Beach,
               Thomas Griffen, Jno Roberts Richard Chillman, Edward Horne
               Thomas Potter, Robert Large Morgan Jones, John Askin Daniell
               Clocker, Owen Gwyther & Abraham Read who being duely Sworn
               upon the holy Evangelists do upon their Oaths Say as followeth
               That it appeareth to the Juro.rs af.d by a Patent under the Great Seal
               of this Province bearing date the twelfth day of Septembr. in the
               year of our Lord 1653 to them produced that W.m Howley Escq
               haveing Right to Six thousand acres of Land & upwards in the S.d
               province by an Order of the Provinciall Court of the four & Twen
               tieth of march 1652) [1652/3] In Consideration thereof his Ldp did
               by the S.d Patent Grant unto the S.d William Howley all that tract of
               Land on the west Side Chesepeake hay near unto a Creek Called St
               Jerom's Creek Beginning on the west Side the Said Creek at a
               marked Chesnut Tree Standing near a marsh & Swamp Called S.t
               Davids Swamp & Running west from the s d Chesnutt for the
               Length of Eighty pches unto a marked oake in a Valley bounding
               on the west with a line drawn South from the s.d Oake for the
               Length of Eight hundred fifty and five perches unto a fresh Runn &
               with a line drawn North & by west unto the Land of Stanhope
               Roberts Called Drappers Neck on the north with the Said Land on
               the East with the sd bay from Drappers neck unto the mouth of S.t