Chancery Court Proceedings, 1675.  463

    Secretaryes Office remaineing in the said Province of Maryland that Liber P C
    John Norwood late of the Said Province Gent the 2 21th day of
    November 1663 had surveyed for him One thousand Acres of land
    lyeing in his Said County On the northside of Choptanche River
    Begining at a marked white Oake being the Southermost bound tree
    of the Land of Jerome White Esqr & runing from the Said Oake for
    bredth Southwest three hundred Perches to a point of Marsh at the
    mouth of the nothermost branch of the River bounded on the West
    by the Said branch the length of five hundred perches northwest
    on the north by a line drawne northeast from the end of the northwest
    line for bredth three hundred perches On the east by a line drawne
    Southeast from the end of the northeast line to the land of the said
    Whites One hundred perches and by Whites land to the first marked
    Uake On the South by the River Or' the west by the north branch
    And whereas Wee are informed that the Said parcell of land by
    Severall wayes and meanes is Sithence become forfeited to Us and
    that One Edward Roe of his County holds possession thereof with-
    out any right or title to entitle him thereunto Wee Coffiand the Said
    Sheriff that by lawfull men of his Bailiwicke he make Knowne to
    the Said Edward Roe that he be and appeare before Us in Our
    Court of Chancery the ninth day of ffebruary next wheresoever
    it Shall then be to Shew cause if any he have why the said parcell
    of land Ought not to be escheated unto Us and the Said Edward
    Roe be amoved From the possession thereof & hereof he is not to
    faile and that he make Knowne to our justices in what manner he
    execute this writ.
      Att which Said ninth day of ffebruary in the yeare aforesaid
    Came the Said Edward Roe by Robert Carvile his Attorny and
    Saith that the Said parcell of Land Ought not to be escheated unto
    the Said Lord proprietary nor the said Edward be amoved from his
    possession thereof because he Saith that he purchased the Same of
    John Edmondson of Talbott County merchant who upon the Con-
    ditions of plantations obtained patent For the Same under the Great
    Seale of this province beareing date the eighth of August 1670 as
    appeares upon Record and the said Edward further Saith that the
    Said John Norwood in the Said writ of Scire Facias named never
    legally Surveyed the Said land, nor even made good any rights, nor
    never had any Conditionall or Other warrant for the same, whereby
    the said Land being Out of his Loopps Mannour and free from any
    reserve it was law full for the Said John Edmondson to Survey and
    patent the same according to Conditions of plantation, And the Said
    Edward Roe further Saith that the Said Lord proprietary him from
    the possession of the said Land will not amove for the reasons afore-
    said because he Saith That the Said Lord proprietary by his Letters
    under his hand and Seale beareing date the eighth day of August