Chancery Court Proceedings, 1679.   287




    Sommersett County Greeting Whereas we have by a Commission Liber C D
    under our hand and the Great Seale of our Said Province of Mary
    land Commissionated John White Gent to be our Sheriff of our Sd
    County of Sommersett dureing our pleasure We do therefore hereby
    Will & require you to administer the Oath of Sheriff of our S.d
    County unto the Said John White according to the form hereunto
    annexed Wittness our Self at our City of S.t Maries the third day
    of September in the fourth year of our Dominion &ca Annoq
    Domini one thousand Six hundred Seventy nine

      Charles &c To John Penrey and Thomas Penney Greeting Whereas
    Robert Mason of S.t Manys Co.ty mench.t hath lately Exhibited his
    Bill of Comp.lt before us in our Court of Chan.ry against you John &
    Thomas to be Relieved for the matters therein Contained and that
    he may Examine his Wittnesses in perpetual memory and that
    nothing may happen thereby to your prejudices We Command &
    firmly Enjoyn you that all Excuses being Set aside you be & psonally
    appear before us in our Court of Chan.ry w.thout delay wheresoever
    it Shall then be to Answer unto Such things as Shall be then &
    there objected ag.t you by the Said Robert Mason, and also (if to
    you it Shall Seem meet) that the Said Wittnesses or others on your
    behalf may be there likewise Examined if you will or that you Shew
    or Cause to be Showed then & there before our Chancello.r of our S.d
    Court Sufficient Cause why the Said Wittnesses may not be Ex
    amined on the part of the S.d Robert and afterwards their Ex
    aminacons accordoing to the Order and Course of our Said Court
    may not be published that our Said Court hearing the Cause may
    do therein what Shall to Justice appertain And further to do & Re
    ceive what our Said Court Shall Consider of in this behalf And this
    you may in no wise Omitt and have you there this Writt Wittness
    our Self at our City of S.t Marys the Eigth day of September in
    the fourth year of our Dominion &C Annoq Dom 1679

      Richard James of Baltemore Co.ty in Maryland do Give & be- (fol. 288)
    queath unto or my Master m.r John Browning a parcell of Land
    Called Jones's Adventure Containing Two hund.d acres if my
    Brother William Jones will not Come into this Country to Settle
    then my S.d master to have it as Wittness my hand & Seale this 12.th
    of ffeb: 1669               Richard James sealed
                          Signum
      Test W.m Orchard, Peter P Jones
    July 29.th 1679                            p.235
      Let a writt of Mandamus issue out of the office touching the two (fol. 288)
    hundred acres above Specified and that it be delivered unto the
    bearer m.r John Browning         C: Baltemore
   To W.m Calvert Esq Sec.ry
       or to his Chief Ctk