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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 18 |
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