Chancery Court Proceedings, 1670.    29




    fully and at large the same doth and may appear. In pursuance of Liber C D
    which Act Richard Perry of patuxent River in our County of Calvert
    Merchant and Daniel Jenifer of           of S.t   Gent
    did purchase             ancery our sd Writt accord
    ing to in the said Act sett down bearing date the four
    and twe day of March in the Eight and thirtieth Year
    of our sd do directed to our Sheriff of Calvert County
    commanding him by the Oaths of Twelve honest and lawfull men
    of his Bailiwick dilligently to Enquire if it were to the damage of
    us or others if we granted to Richard Perry and Daniel Jenifer Ten
    Acres of Land lying in the Resurrection Mannor in the said County
    of Calvert on each side of the Run of water there running into the
    back Creek in patuxent River with Liberty and Licence as afd
    and how and of whom the said Land was holden and of what value
    they were by the Year according to the true Value of them without
    any further Improvem.t thereof made and the Inquisition thereupon
    taken to return to us unto our said Court of Chancery without delay
    under his Seal and the Seals of them by whom it was made. By
    Virtue of which Writt our sd Sheriff did return his Inquisition
    Indented into our sd Court of Chancery being duely taken the fifth
    day of Aprill in the said Eight and Thirtieth Year of our dominion
    whereby the Jurors upon their Oaths found that it was to the damage
    of Thomas Sprigge Gent. only the Value of five Acres of Land which
    they found to the Sume of Ten Shillings and Six pence Sterling
    and to the damage of the heir or heirs of John Bateman Esq de
    ceased only the Value of five Acres of Land which they also found
    to be Ten Shillings and Six pence Sterling if we should grant to the
    sd Richard and Daniel Ten Acres of Land lying on each side the
    said Run of Water afd the sd Ten Acres lying as followeth Vizt
    five Acres on the South side of the sd Run in the possession of the
    said Thomas Sprigg and was then of the yearly Value only of one
    Shilling Six pence Sterling and was part of the sd resurrection
    Mannor and the other five Acres on the North side of the said Run
    and was then of the like yearly Value and part of the said Mannor p.22
    and in the possession of the sd Richard Perry in trust for the heirs (fol. 26)
    of the sd John Bateman as by the said Writt and Inquisition also
    remaining upon record in our sd Court of Chancery more at large
    may appear and whereas the sd Thomas Sprigge & Mary Bateman
    the heir of the said John Bateman being an Infant under the age of
    one and twenty years have denyed and refused to Build a Mill upon
    the premises or to give Security as afd and the said Richard and
    Daniel have given us sufficient Caution to build a Water Mill upon
    the Run of water afd and the same to Compleat and finish by the
    time Limited in and by the said Act of generall Assembly according
    to the true Intent and meaning thereof. Now know yee that we
    for the Considerations afd and for and in Consideration of the
    Rents and Services hereafter in this our Grant reserved have de