330   Chancery Court Proceedings, 1669.





        Liber CD   quire you that you take the Bodys of them the S.d John Stokes,
               John Hunt & John Mott if found within your Bailywick & them
               safely keep till they Enter into a Recognizance in our Said Court
               of Chan.rY with Sufficient Sureties not to depart this Province till
           p. 405 they & Every of them have Answered perfectly and fully to the
         (ol. 528) Said Bill & also to perform what our Said Court Shall determine
               therein Wittness our Self at S.t maries the 11.th day of may 37.0
               Caecilij Annoq Dñi 69               Carvile

               M.r Morecroft A diem Clausit Extremum for m.r Slye of y.e
                  Estate of Saml Smith deced
                Caecilius absolute Lord and Prop.ry of the Provinces of maryland
               & Avalon Lord Baron of Baltemore &c To our trusty & welbeloved
               Henry Adams & ffrancis Pope Gent Greeting We Command ye that
               by the Oaths of Twelve honest and Legall men of our County of
               Charles County by whom the truth of the matter may more fully
               be known diligently you Enquire what Lands or Tenem.ts Samuell
               Smith late of Cowe Spring in our Said County held of us as well in
               Demeasne as in Service in our Said County the day he deced & how
               much of others & by what Service & what the value of the Lands &
               Tenem.ts is by the year in all issues & who is his next heir & of what
               age, and who or whom those Lands or Tenem.ts from the Death
               afores.d hath Occupyed and the issues and profits taken thereof by
               what Title & in what manner & how much thereof is held of us & the
               Inquisition thereupon distinctly and openly made to us in our Chan
               cery undr your Seales and the Seals of them by whom it was made
               without delay Send ye and this writt Wittness our Self at S.t maries
               the third day of June in the 37.th year of our Dominion over Said
               Province Annocp Dñi 1669             Carvile

        Bayly con Staple fort Sci: fac p T  or.d made known by Tho:
                  Taylor Sheriff
                Caecilius absolute Lord and Proprietary &c To the Sheriff of Cal
               vert County Greeting Whereas by an Order made at o.r Prov.ll
               Court held at S.t maries y•e 5.th day of Aprill 1666 Between John
               Bayly p.lt & Raymond Staplefort def.t It was Ordered that the plan
               tacon & Land and all houses & appurtenances thereunto belonging
        (fol. 529) w.ch the p.It and def.t purchased of one William Jones Called by the
               name of Taykerby Scituate upon Putuxent River in our Said County
               Should be divided between the p.lt & defend.t by writt of Division
               We Command you that by honest and Lawfull men of your Baily
               wick you make known to the Said Raymond Staplefort that he be
               before us in our Court of Chancery the nineteenth day of October
               next Comeing whosesoever it Shall then be then and there to Shew
               Cause if any he have or can Shew why a writt of Division Sho.d
               not issue out of our Said Court f or the Dividing the Said Lands &
               prmisses Between the p.lt and defend.t according to the Said Order