264   Chancery Court Proceedings, 1679.





       Liber C D  mission.rs as also the Said Jurors have hereunto Set their hands and
              Seales the day and year first above written Annoaj Domini 1679
                                       Nathan.ll Heathcote sealed
                                       George Parker sealed
        (fol. 260) John Sollers      sealed    Thos Knighton   sealed
            Thomas fford    sealed   Garrett Hopkinssealed
            Walter Carr     sealed   Samuell Reniger sealed
           Robert Conant    sealed   John Gaile    sealed
           Rich.d Deaver    sealed   W.m Sivick    sealed
           Richard Wells    sealed   Leonard Coatessealed

                Which being Read and heard it is the opinion of the Court here
              this day to witt the fifth day of June in the fourth year of the Do
              minion of the Right Hon.ble Charles Lord Baltemore &ca That
              the aforegoing Land and premisses are Escheated for want of heir
                                   Nich:   Painter Ct Cur Prova.lis

                Inquisition Rich.d Mascall's Land
                An Inquisition Indented taken at the house of George Yate in
              Ann Arundell County in the Province of Maryland the Two and
              Twentieth day of Aprill 1679 and in the fourth year of the Dominion
              of the Right Hon.ble Charles absolute Lord and Proprietary of the
              Provinces of Maryland and Avalon Lord Baron of Baltemore
              &c.a By us Rowland Nance and John Thomas By Virtue of a Writt
              of Mandamus issued out of his Lordship's high Court of Chancery
              to this Inquisition annexed to us directed By the Oath of John
              Larkin, Richard Beard, Richard Cheiny Sen.r Rich.d Cheiney Jun.r
              Robert Wade, John Gray, John Belt, William. Jones, William liams
              John Jacob, Joim Tate and Thomas Plummer The Jurx who upon
              their Oaths as followeth viz.t That the Said Richard Mascall at the
              time of his departure out of this Province which was in the year
              of our Lord one thousand Six hundred and Seventy three was in
              actuall possession of a Tract of Land Containing two hundred &
              thirty acres more or Less as appears by Certificate Surveyed by
              George Yate then Deputy Surveyo.r in the year of the Dominion of
              the Right Hon.ble Caecilius of most noble memory and in the year
              of our Lord God one thousand Six hundred & Seventy Scituate
              Lying & being in Baltemore County but formerly in Ann Arundell
       (fol. 261) held of the manno.r of Ann Arundell as by the meets & bounds
              thereof menconed in the Said Certificate more at Large may appear
              and Called and known by the name of Mascall's Rest to be holden
              as afores.d the Said Jurors further Say that is Reported that the S.”
              Mascall dyed in Carolina in the year of our Lord God one thousand
              Six hundred and Seventy five and that nobody hath received the
              issues and profits thereof The Said Jurors further Say that the
              Said Land and premisses are not in any one's possession and that