Chancery Court Proceedings, 1674.  439

      at which day wee thought it convenient to meete againe at the Liber P C
      house of the said Larkin, And the said complainant by her Attorny
      Kenelm Cheseldyn did then and there alleadge before Us that the
      said Complt being arrested in Baltemore County was circumvented
      of getting Supena's for the appearance of her witnesses for want
      of which she was altogether uncapable to make her defence in the
      premisses and that the said deft Thomas Howell had all his papers
      and accompts ready. But not knowing any Occasion he should have
      for evidences to prove his accompts without which wee could not
      proceed any further in the premisses This is Our Report in the
      premisses in Obedience to your Order aforesaid is Certified under
      Our hands and seales this eight day of April in the two and fortith
      yeare of the Dominion of the Right Honble Caecilius &c Annoq
      Doth 1674.
        Which being read and heard it is this day Ordered That the first
      administrators accompt fully and wholly before the Cothissary Genll
      and Cheife judge for probate of Wills and granting administration
      and that the evidence upon record be good evidence to the said
      Cheife judge and upon examination of the accompt to act and doe
      as the Act for preservation of Orphants estates provideth.

      Tobias Wells Complt
            agt
      John Wright et ux deft

      Jonathan Hopkinson Complt
            agt
      John Wright & Rich. Snowden
                            these foure causes continued untill
 John Edmundson Complt      next Court.
            agt
      John Clements Tho: Vaughan
        & Jn° Ingram defts

      Thomas Sprigg Complt
            agt
    Tho:  Truman & Nath. Truman~


        Memorandum it was Comanded the Sheriff of st Maries County
      That whereas the Right Honble the Lord Proprietary of this Prov-
      ince &c did by his letters patents under the great Seale of this
      province beareing date the seventh day of September in the yeare
      of Our Lord 1663 for the considerations therein named grant unto
      Thomas Gerard Esq a parcell of land called the medowes lying at
      the head of Wiccocomocco River in st Maries County Conteining
      and then laid Out for foure hundred acres more or lesse as by the
      said Grant relation being thereunto had more fully and more at