Chancery Court Proceedings, 1669.   333





    Security by Recognizance Such as thou wilt Answer for to us who Liber C D
    will undertake for him the Said Thomas every of them the Said
    Pnincipall & Security in the Sum of 4t Sterl to be Levyed of their
    Goods and Chattells Lands & Tenem.ts wheresoever they Shall be
    found within this Province to our use and if the Said Thomas
    Manning do refuse to Give Such Security as aforesaid that then
    thou take the body of the Sd Thomas Manning & him Safely keep
    untill he shall find and Give Such Security as afores.d or we give
    thee other Command to the Contrary and that thou Certifie us in our
    Court of Chancery without delay wheresoever it Shall then be of the
    names of the Said Bayle or Security & of thy whole proceedings
    herein openly and distinctly under thy hand and Seale and this thou
    mayst in no wise omitt under the pain of 4.l Sterl Witness our Self
    at S.t maries the Eleventh day of August in the Eight thirtieth year
    of our Dominion oven our Said province Annoq Domini T669
                                        R Carvile

    a melius Inquirend upon Symon Oversee's Estate p B: Rozer
      Caecilius &c To our Welbeloved Henry Adams and ffrancis Pope
    Gent Greeting where by an Inquisicon taken before you by virtue
    of our writt of Diem Clausit extremum & by you Returned into our
    Court of Chancery it is made appear that Symon Oversey of Charles
    County dec.d in the Said Inquisition named the day he dyed was
    possessed of 1000 acres of Land on the East Side of Portoback
    Creek w.ch had Since his death been and Remained in the possession
    of Edmund Lindsey & a piece of Land by him demised & lett out to
    John Caen & at his Death in the Tenure & Occupation of the Said
    Caen & 550 acres Called Rotterdam near Nangemy Indian town w.ch
    is all that to yor knowledges he dyed possessed of And that to their
    knowledge he left no heir to whom the Sd Lands Shod descend And
    because you have not Specified in your Inquisition what Estate or
    Right the Said Symon Oversey dyed off in the S.d Severall & Re
    spective Lands & Tenem.ts & of who or of whom the Same were
    Severally & respectively held & by what Severall & Respective Ten
    ures or Services & of what man.r or manno.rs & under what Rents and
    Services the Same were So Sevrally & Respectively held nor when
    the Said Lease was made to Caen or for what Term or under what
    Rent Reserved We thereof to be by you more fully Certified do
    Coffiand you that by the Oaths of twelve honest and Legall men of
    our s.d Co.ty of Charles Co.ty as well within Libertys as wthout by
    whom the truth of the premisses may be the better known you do
    enquire what Estate or Right the S.d Symon Oversey dyed Seized
    of in the S.d Severall & respective Lands & Tenem.ts & of who or of
    whom the Same were Sevrally & Respectively held & by what tenure
    or Services & of what mannor or manno.rs & und.r wt rents & Services