258   Chancery Court Proceedings, 1679.





       Liber C D  put the Said Seabastian upon the Said Land w.ch Said three hundred
              acres of Land is worth three hundred pounds of Tobacco by the year
                                          W.m Stevens sealed
                                         Fran:  Jenkins sealed
        (fol. 253) Thomas Newbold                     sealed Edwd Stevens     sealed
              Dan.ll Curtis   sealed Robt Blades   sealed
              Edmund Beauchamp. . . . sealed    Rob.t Catlin   sealed
              Walter Powell   sealed W.m Sooth     sealed
              Jn.° Anderson          sealed Wm Bradshaw             sealed
              Geo: Hurfurt    sealed Mich.” Williamssealed

                Which being Read and heard it is the opinion of the Court here
              this day to wit the tenth day of October in the third year of the
              Dominion of Charles Lord Baltemore &c. Annoq Domini 1678 that
              Hugh Marnix is heir to the Lands in the a foregoing Inquisition
              mencon'd
                                   Nich:   Painter Ct Corn Provalis

                An Inquisition Indented taken at the house of John Athey upon
              the Clifts in Calvert County in the Province of maryland planter
              the Twentieth day of September in the third year of the Dominion
              of the Right Hon.ble Charles absolute Lord & Prop.ry of the Province
              of Maryland and Avalon Lord Baron of Baltemore &c and in the
              year of our Lord God one thousand Six hundred Seventy & Eight
              before us George Parker of Hunting Creek in Calvert County Gent &
              Richard Ladd of the Clifts in the Same County Gent By Virtue of a
              Writt of Mandamus issued out of his Lordships high Court of
              Chancery to this Inquisition Annexed to us directed by the Oaths of
              Francis ifreeman of the Clifts in Calvert County af.d William
              Taylor of the Same Samuell Holdsworth of the Same Nathan Daw
              of the Same Daniell Blayd of the Same Jeffrey Meanley of the
              Same John Gyett near s.t Leonard's Creek, Henry Todd of the
              Clifts afores.d James Macall of the Same William Harris of the
              Same Edward Husband of the Same and William Barton of the
              Same The Jury who upon their Oaths Say as followeth viz.t That
              the Said John Tucker was at the time of hi3 Death Seized in Actuall
              possession of one hundred & fifty acres of Land more or Less Lying
              on the Clifts in Calvert County Called or known by the name of
              Tuckers unfortunate but by what Right or Title they know not nor
              of what manno.r of his Lordship's the s.d Land holdeth of they
              Cannot find nor under what Rents and Services Reserved to his
              Lopp for the Said Land they know not haveing no Patents nor any
              other writeings whereby they may be directed therein The Said
              Jurors further Say that the Said John Tucker made his Last Will &
       (fol. 254) Testament in writeing But whether he did thereby bequeathed the s.d
              one hundred & fifty acres of Land to any person or persons they