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Chancery Court Proceedings, 1679-80. 317 Ever Since the Death of the aforesaid Edward Smith the s.d LiberCD John Ardine hath had possession of the Said Land as being his own haveing truely paid for it Together with Rents to the Sheriff aforesd and that he hath Since the Death of Edward Smith received no profit from the Said Land Given under our hands & Seals the ninth of December 1679 Edward Mountford foreman ffrancis Vorst William Pearles Jonas Boying Robert Cunneworth Tho: James Robert Gardner sealed . sealed Oliver Haife [?j Setmaris Oternbergh W.m Milbourne Ambrose Gillett John Thronton Which being Read and heard this twelfth day of ffeb.ry in the fifth Year of the Dominion of the R.t Hon.ble Charles Lord Balte more &c Annoq Dom 1679 It is Ordered by the Court that a melius Inquirendum issue better to Enquire concerning the Lands in the aforegoing Inquisition menconed Nic: Painter Cl Cur Prov.alis Inquisition of Jn.° Gramer's Land An Inquisition Indented taken the three & Twentieth day of Janu ary in the fifth year of the Dominion of Charles &c Annoq Domini 1679 at the house of Thomas Co[sde]n in Calvertown in Calvert County in the Province of maryland before us Charles Boteler and Samuell Bourne Gent By virtue of a Commission in the nature of a mandamus out of his Lordship's Court of Chan.ry to us directed by the Oaths of twelve Good and Lawfull men of of the Same County diligently to Enquire what Lands & Tenements John Grammer late (fol. 320) of Calvert Co.ty af.d deceased held of the R.t Hon.ble the Lord Prop.ry in his Demeasne as of ffee at the time of his Death and of what manno.r and by what Services and how much those Lands & Tenem.ts are of value by the year in all issues and at what time the Said John Grammer dyed and who is his next heir and who those Lands Since the Death of the Said John Grammer hath or doth Occupy and the issues and profits doth receive & by what Title & in what manner by the oaths roome Richard Smith W.m Barton Christopher Baynes Tho Sedwick, Thomas Arnold Edw.d Coudry Thomas Jessup, John Larkins, Thomas Edwards William Collingwood & Joseph Dawkins being by us duely Sworn Say upon their Oaths as follows that the Said John Grammer dyed in the month of Aprillof our Lord 1678 Seized of Two par cells of Landthree hundred forty nine acres Lying in a Creek Called Grammer's Creek in Putuxent River and that the Said John Grammer held the Same Lands of the Lord Proprietary |
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