440       Chancery Court Proceedings, 1674.

        Liber P C  large it doth and may appeare Now for that his Lopp had long before
               that time reserved for his Owne Use a parcell of land in st Maries
               County called Choptico Mannour of which the said parcell of land
               is part and the said Thomas Gerard being sensible thereof fraudu-
               lently procured his Lopps Grant aforesaid to the disinherizon of his
               Lopp and his heires of the premisses and the said Thomas Gerard
               being since deceased. That by good and lawfull men of his Bailiwick
               he make knowne and give warning unto Thomas Gerard Son of the
               said deceased who claimeth the same under him that he be before
               his said Lopp in his Court of Chancery this fountenth day of April
               to shew cause if any he have wherefore the said Letters patent of the
               said land as aforesaid made ought not to be revoaked and adnulled
               and the same into his Lopps hands be seized, and to doe and receive
               what his Lopps said Court shall doe or grant to be done in this
           p. 56   behalfe. And how he shall execute this precept that he make knowne
               to his Lopps said Court and the day aforesaid and that he have there
               this writt.
                At which said day to wit the fourtenth day of April in the 42th
               yeare of the Dominion of Caecilius &c came the said Sheriff and
               made returne of the writt aforesaid and saith that by Virtue of that
               writt he hath made knowne to the within named Thomas Gerard
               that he be and appeare at the day and place within specified as the
               writt requires. Wittnes Capt John Jordaine and Abraham Combes.
                And the said Thomas Gerard likewise came and the said Thomas
               Esq Robert Carvile his Attorny prayed licence of speaking hereunto
               untill the first day of the next Court and it is granted unto him
               the same day given to both partys.

               Lord Proprietary
                  agt     this cause Continued untill next Court.
               John Nichols

                The Court adjourned untill the 12th of May next


                   Maryland ss Att a Court held for the Chancery and
                  Provinciall Court begun On Tuesday the twelfth day of
                  May in the 42th yeare of the Dominion of Caecilius &c at
                  the Citty of st Maries and there continued untill the six-
                  tenth day of the same month

                              Present
                        His Excellency Charles Calvert Esq Cheife justice
                The Honble Philip Calvert Eq Chancellour
                        William Calvert Esq Principall Secretary
                        Baker Brooke Esq