Chancery Court Proceedings, 1679.   273





        To the Right Hon.ble Charles Lord Baron of Baltemore &c Liber C D
      The Humble Petition of George Yate (fol. 271)
    Humbly Sheweth
      That about Seven Years Since or thereabouts one Richard Mas
    call of the County of Ann Arundell in Patapsko River was about
    that time possessed of a Small Tract of Land Called Mascall's Rest
    Lying in the Said River Containing about Two hundred and thirty
    acres Now So it is may it please your Hono.rs that the Said Mascall p. 223
    departed this Province about Seven years Since and is now dead (fol. 271)
    and left no heir behind him neither hath the Rent been paid to your
    Lordship as of Right it ought to be to the Certain knowledge of your
    petitioner So that the Said Land of Good Right and according to
    Law is Escheated to your Lordship which being So made appear
    according to the known precepts of this Province Your humble
    petition.r prays that your Lordship will be pleased to Grant the
    Said Land to your petition.r upon Such Terms as to yo.r Hon.r
    Shall Seem meet and your petition.r as in duty bound Shall Ever
    pray &c.a
                                      George Yate
      On the Back side of the aforegoeing Petition was thus written
    Viz.t A Writt of Mandamus for the Enquiry into this Land be
    issued forth C: Baltemore

    Inquisition Rob.t Sheale's Land
      An Inquisition Indented taken at the house of W.m Roswell at
    New town in S.t Marys County on Tuesday the 13.th day of may
    1679 before us John Manley and Robert Carvile Gent By virtue of
    a Commission issued out of his Lordships high Court of Chancery
    in the nature of a mandamus to us directed by the Oaths of twelve
    Good and Lawfull men of the Said County by whom the truth of
    the matter may be the better known and Enquired of diligently to
    Enquire whose Lands Rob.t Sheale of S.t Marys Co.ty deed dyed
    Seized of and of what manno.r and under what rents and Services
    and how much those Lands and Tenem.t are of value by the year in
    all issues and at what time the Said Robert Sheale dyed and who (fol. 272)
    is his next heir and what age the heir is and who those Lands and
    tenem.ts from the time of the Death of the Said Richard Sheale
    hath or doth Occupy and the issues and profits hath or doth receive
    and by what title and how and in what manner, and who hath paid
    the Rent for the Same and to whom by the Oaths of Stephen Murty
    Stephen Gough, Abraham Taylor John Brown, William Shercliffe
    James Pattison, John Noble John Baley, Richard Burkett, Thomas
    Nottingham, Thomas Salmon and Daniell Hammond Who being
    duely Sworn upon the Holy Evangelists do upon their Oaths Say
    as followeth









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