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   paying of four thousand Six hundred fifty Eight pounds of Tobacco LiberCD
   for Costs adjudged to the p.lts upon a Decree obtained
   in this Court        Oath of Roger ffowke Gent dat 4th
   December ret 10.th ffebruary 1679

       To the R.t Hon.ble the Lord Proprietary of Maryland &c
     The Humble Petition of Henry [Hollis & Eliza]beth his wife late
   Relict of John Grammer of [Calvert Couinty deceased Submissively
   Sheweth
     Whereas John Grammer late of Calvert [County was po]ssessed
   of two parcells of Land Lying in Putuxent River
   the Island Creek Containing in the whole three
   Called the School house and being So possessed    of
   August in the year of our Lord .      Seventy
   Seven did make his last will and        Seale
   whereby he did bequeath as           my Whole
   plantation which I now dwell        of Cattle
   and hoggs with all the Rest of my whole Estate    whatsoever
   unto my wife Elizabeth Grammer dureing her widowhood and if
   in Case She the Said Elizabeth Shall happen to after my
   decease, that then my Said Plantation and whole Estate to be taken
   away from the Said Elizabeth by the Court and to be kept by
   order of the Said Court of Calvert County for the maintenance of
   the poor and Orphans of this County for Ever, Now So it is may
   it please your Lordship that yo.r Pet.r Elizabeth haveing Since the
   Death of her Said Husband Grammer Intermarried with yo.r Pet.r p. 249
   Henry Hollis whereby She is informed She hath forfeited all the (fol. 306)
   Estate wch She Could Claime in the afores.d Land Nevertheless
   being also informed that the Said Land by Reason of the bequest
   afores.d to the poor & Orphans of this County and to the Comis
   sion.rs of the Same County for their use is by Severall Statutes of
   England forfeited and the Said Guift void & null, Therefore yo.r
   pet.rs humbly pray your Lordship to issue out your Lordship's writt
   of mandamus to Enquire of the Said Land and if the Same be by
   any ways or means forfeited or Escheated to yo.r Lordship yo.t (fol. 307)
   petition.rs do humbly pray that they may be admitted to purchase
   the Said Land to them and their heirs at Such reasonable rates as
   yo.r Lordship in Charity Shall think meet
                  And as in duty bound they shall ever pray
     Underneath the aforegoing Peticön was written as followeth
   Let a writt of mandamus issue to Comiss.r5 to Enquire of the Land
   above in the Petition menconed and for So doing this Shall be yo.r
   warrant Given under my hand this Second day of December 1679
   To W.m Calvert Esq Sec.ry         C: Baltemore
       of Maryland









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