Chancery Court Proceedings, 1679.   253





      Which being Read & heard it is the oppinion of the Court here Liber C D
     this day to wit the 10.th day of march in the fourth year of the
     Dominion of Charles Lord Baltemore &a Annoq Dom 1678 that the
     aforemencon'd Land & prmisses are Escheated unto his Lordship f or
     want of heirs, To be holden of his Lopp & his heirs and others the
     Chief Lords of the ffee of the prmisses under the Rents heretofore
     due and accustomed
                          Nich:    Painter Ctk Cur Prov.ll

    Maryland ss. Warren John Inquisition         (fol. 247)
      An Inquisition taken upon the nineteenth day of July in the
     year of the Dominion of Charles absolute Lord & Proprietary of
     The Provinces of Maryland & Avalon Lord Baron of Baltemore &c
     Annoq Domini 1678 At the house of John Warren Scituate near
     Brittons bay in the County of S.t Marys in y.e Province of Maryland
     by virtue of a Commission in the nature of a Mandamus issued out
     of his Lordship's high Court of Chan.ry to us Clement Hall & Richard
     Gardner Gent directed, by the Oaths of Twelve Good & Lawfull
     men of the Said County of S.t Maryes by whom the truth of the
     matter may the better be known & Enquired of to diligently En
     quire who is the Right owner of a parcell of Land Containing four p. 206 (fol. 247)
     hundred & fifty acres Lying in Brittons Bay in S.t Marys County
     aforesaid now in the possession of John Warren & by what Title
     how & in what manner the sd John Warren hath & doth hold &
     Enjoy the Same what these Lands & Tenements are of value by
     the year in all issues who hath paid the Rent for the Same & to whom
     & who is heir to the Same We do therefore by the Oaths of Abraham
     Combe, John Hearde William Cole, John Bayly Sen.r William
     Langworth Robert Cole John Nevitt, Thomas Hockley, John ifossey
     Michael Ryley Ignatius Warren and John Bayley Jun.r who being
     all duely Sworn Say as followeth That the Right Honble the Lord
     Propry of the S.d Province did by his Patent under the Great Seale
     of the S.d province bearing date the fifth day of June in the Year of
     our Lord 1649 Give Grant and Enfeoff unto John Shercliff his heirs
     & Assigns all that parcell of Land Scituate Lying and being in the
     New town, Bounded on the East with the Land formerly Granted
     Richard Hills and a Creek Called Pisamon Creek on the South with
     Potomock River on the west with a Creek Called Broad Creek & on
     the north with the Land formerly Granted unto John Nunne now in
     the possession of the s.d John Shercliff Containing & Laid out for one
     hundred acres more or Less & all woods Quarry mines Royall mines
     Excepted, Waters ffishing ffishing places and all other profits and
     Commodities in & upon the Same Land belonging To have and to
     hold the Same Land & premisses unto him the said John Shercliff
     his heirs and assigns for Ever To be holden of the manno.r of New
     Town in free and Common Soccage by ffealty only for all Services