378   Chancery Court Proceedings, 1671.




       Liber C D  the possession of John Bolds Gent of what manno.r the Said parcell
              of Land was holden and by what Services and much the Same is
              of value by the year in all issues and profits and at what time the
              Said William Battin dyed and who is his next heir on heirs and of
              what age the heir or heirs are and who the Said
              from the time of the Death of the S.d William Battin have
                    occupy and the issues & profits hath did & doth Receive
              and by what Title and how and in what manner and the Inquisition
              thereof distinctly and openly made to us in our Chancery under yo.r
              hands and Scales and the hands & Scales of them by whom it Shall
              be made without delay you Send & this writt Wittness our Self at
              our City of S.t maries this in the 40.th year
              of our           over our Said


                        City of S.t maries in our
                                     in the Seven and Thirtieth year
                        over our Said Provinces it was Enacted & Ordained
              for divers Reasons in the Said Act menconed that all that Land
              Lying and being on the South Side of Choptanck River bounded
              westerly by the ifreehold now in the Tenure & Occupation of William
              Dorrington and Easterly with the Creek falling into the Said River
              of Choptanck Commonly by the English Called or known by the
              name of Secretary Sewalls Creek for breadth and from the Said
              Piver Side three miles into the woods for Length Should be unto
              Ababco, Hutsawap & Tesquastieno and the people under their Gov
              ernment and Charge and their heirs for Ever any Law usage Custom
              or Grant to the Contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding to be
              held of us and our heirs under the yearly Rent of Six beaver Skins as
              by the Said Act Relation being thereunto had more full and more
              at Large it doth and may appear We do therefore Command you
              that by the Oaths of twelve honest and Lawfull men of the Said
              County of Dorchester by whom the truth of the matter may be the
              better known and Enquired of diligently you Enquire if it be to the
              damage of us or others if we Grant unto the Said Alabco Hutsawap
              & Tequastieno & their nation & their heirs for Ever the Said parcell
              of Land and if it be to the damage of us or others, then to what
              damage and what prjudice of us & what damage and prejudice of
              others & of whom & in what manner & how & to what value and
              who are the prsent possessors of the Said parcell of Land and how
              many acres the Same Containeth and the Inquisition thereupoii
          p.  openly & distinctly made to us in our Chancery under the Seale and
        (fol. 572) the Scales of them by whom it was made without delay thou Send and

              this writt Wittness our Self at our City of S.t maries the 23.th day
              of October in the fortieth year of our Dominion over our Said
              Province of maryland Annoq Domini 1671