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  Henry Scarborough This Cause being continued untill this Liber P C
         agt Court in wch time the plts Attorney was
    Richard Pery canc & als to pduce a better authority from the
    Comp.lt This Court doe ordr that the Cause be Continued untill the
    next Cort and that if the complts Attorney Doe not then pduce a
    sufficient authority, as the Corts shall approve of, the Cause to be
    Dismissed

     Command was given to the sheriff of Charles County that whereas
    wee did by our Letters Patents undr our greate Seale of our sd
    Province of Maryland bearing date the Seaventh day of September
    in the yeare of our Lord 1666 for the Consideration therein named
    graunt unto Walter Beane of our said Province genti a pcell of land
    Called Durham lyeing in the woods on the East side of the Mame-
    fresh Runn of Portobacco Creeke, Conteyning and then layed out for
    Seaven hundred and fifty acres more or less, as by or sd Graunt
    Remaining upon Record Relation being thereunto had more fully
    and more at large it doth and may appeare, Now for that wee had
    long before that time Reserved for our owne use a pcell of land in
    Charles County called Pangaya Mannor of wch the sd pcell of land
    it pt, and the said Walter Beane being sensible thereof fraudulently
    pcured our graunt aforesayd to the Disinherizon of us and our heires
    of the prmises, and the said Walter Beane being since Deceased, wee
    doe Comannd you that by good and law full men of yor Bailiwick you
    make knowne and give warning to the heires of the said Walter
    Beane, or any assigns that Claymeth the same undr him that they be
    before us in orr Court of Chancery the Tenth of ffebruary next
    wheresoever wee shall then be to show Cause if any they have where-
    fore the said Letters Patent of the aforesayd Land as aforesayd
    made ought not to be Revoaked and adnulled and the same into our
    hands be seized, and to Doe & Receive what our said Court shall Doe
    or graunt to be Done in this behalf e and how you shall Execute this
    prcept that you make knowne to our sd Court at the Day aforesayd
    and have you there this writ. At wch Day that is to say the Tenth
    day of ffebruary in the 43th yeare of the Dominion of Caecilius &c
    Annoq Domini 1673. John Allen gentl high sheriff of Charles
    County Returnes the said writ Endorsed as followeth (vizt)
     By virtu of this writ I have by John Grubb and Clement Thomp-
    son good and honest men of my Bailiwick made knowne unto the
    widow of the within named Walter Beane that she be and appeare
    at the day and place within Conteyned to show Cause if any she have
    as by the writ within I am Comanded
                                  John Allen Sheriff

     Whereupon Ellinor Beane widdow of the said Walter being Called
    appeared by her sonne in law, Mathew Hill of Charles County genti
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