Chancery Court Proceedings, 1679.   269





    Small dwelling house & other out houseing upon the Same as of Liber CD
    ffee Coffionly Called Olivers neck of the manno.r of Ann Arundell in
    free & Common Soccage by fealty onely for all Services Reserveing
    to his Lordship the Rent of 2.8 pm and that the Said Rent hath been
    yearly paid to his Lordship's high Sheriff of Ann Arundell County
    for the time being. And that the Said Land and Tenem.ts is of
    value Two hundred pounds of Tobacco p annum more than the Said
    Rent
     That both the afores.d parcells of Land have been & Still are
    Occupied Since the Death of the afores.d Oliver Hollaway By Dianah
    the relict of the Said Oliver & one Thomas Lunn that Inter
    married with the Said Dianah and paid the Rent duely of the Said
    one hundred acres of Land Commonly Called Oliver's neck
     That the Said Oliver Holloway dyed without issue heir or Will
    that they Can find
                            Nathan. Heathcote sealed
                            Samuell Lane sealed
    Henry Hanslap sealed  W.m Horne     sealed
    Robert Lockwoodsealed Tho Daborne   sealed
    Thomas fford  sealed  Richard Gott  sealed
    Tho: Pratt    sealed  Fran: Butler  sealed
    Jn.° Walters  sealed  Robert Castinssealed
    Antho: Hollandsealed  Thom: Brown   sealed

     Which being Read and heard it is the Judgm.t of the Court here
    this day to witt the fourth day of June in the fourth year of ye
    Dominion of the Right Hon.ble Charles Lord Baltemore &c Annoq
    Domini 1679 That Dianah the Relict of the Said Oliver Holloway
    have her Dower of and in the aforesaid two parcells of Land, and
    that the Inheritance thereof be in his Lordship for want of heir
                          Nic:    Painter Ct Cur Prov.alis

   Maryland ss. Inquisition The Mill Land       (fol. 267)
     An Inquisition Indented taken upon the tenth day of Aprill in
    the fourth year of the Dominion of Charles absolute Lord and Pro
    prietary of the Provinces of Maryland and Avalon Lord Baron of
    Baltemore &c.a Annoq Domini 1679 at the house of m.r Stephen
    Murty Scituate & being on the Mill Land at the head of Brittons
    Bay in the County of S.t Maries in the Province of Maryland By
    virtue of a Commission in the nature of a mandamus issued out of
    his Lordship's high Court of Chancery to us Richard Lloyd and
    Clement Hill Gent directed by the Oaths of twelve Good and Lawfull
    men of the Same County of S.t Maries by whom the truth of the
    matter may the better be known and Enquired of who is the Right p.
    Owner of an heir to a tract of Land Called the Mill Land Lying at the (fol. 267)
    head of Britton's Bay in the Said County of S.t Maries and what age