Chancery Court Proceedings, 1679.   265





    the Said Lands as they now are, are worth nothing more than the Rent Liber C D
    Reserved to his Ldp and that the yearly Rent due to his Lordship p. 216 (fol. 262)
    for the Said Land hath not been paid from the time that the Said
    Mascall Departure out his Lordship's Province, And the Said Jurors
    further Say that they Cannot find any heir of the Said Richard
    Mascall within the Province of Maryland nor Elswehere In Testi
    mony whereof as well the Said Commission.rs as the Said Jurors
    have hereunto put their hands & Seals the day & year first above
    written
                                Rowland Nance sealed
                      Commissioners
                                John Thomas sealed
    John Larkin   sealed   John Belt     sealed
    Rich.d Beard  sealed   W.m Jones     sealed
    Rich.' Cheiney Sen.r   sealed      W.m Iiames     sealed
    Rich.” Cheiney Jun.r   sealed       John Tate     sealed
    Robert Wade   sealed   John Jacobs   sealed
    John Gray     sealed   Tho: Plummer  sealed

      Which being Read and heard it is the Judgem.t of by the Court
    here this day to witt the fourth day of June in the fourth year of
    the Dominion of the Right Hon.ble Charles L.d Baltemore &c Anncxp
    Domini 1679 That the aforegoing Land & premisses if Mascall be
    dead is Fscheated for want of heir or if Mascall be alive the Same
    is Escheated for non payment of the rent in & by the aforesaid
    Grant Reserved         Nic: Painter Cl Cur Prov.alis


 S.t Maries County ss:  [Inquisition Thomas Diniard's Land]
      We the Jurors underwritten haveing Enquired of the Tenure and
    present Occupier of the Lands that Thomas Diniard late of this
    County dyed Seized of as of ffee in the Said County do find as
    followeth viz.t That the Said Thomas Dyniard dyed Seized of five
    hundred acres of Land held of the manno.r of West S.t maries in
    free and Common Soccage by ifealty only for all Services at the
    Rent of ten Shillings or five Bushells of Good Corn p annum That
    these Lands and Tenements are of value Twelve hundred pounds of
    Tobacco p Annum That the Said Diniard dyed about the fifth of
    November Anno 1659 without heirs That these Lands and Tenem.ts
    Since the Said Dyniards Death hath been Occupied by Charles
    Mynard Since Said Mynards Death by James Martin & his wife an
    hundred acres by Bartholomew Phillips & his Successors Two hun
    dred acres by John Macart & John Dash Two hundred acres That
    no Title appears by w.ch the Said Lands are or have been held Since
    Said Diniard's Death, And that the Rents have been duely paid by
    the present possessors to the Severall Sheriffs from time to time In