Chancery Court Proceedings, 1676-77.     483

    Clerke & shortly after to witt on the Seaventh day of March in the Liber P C
    yeare of Our Lord One Thousand Six hundred Sixty Three he the
    said John Legatt Dyed And the said Jurors upon theire Oathes
    further say that they doe not Know that the said John Legatt had
    any Issue of his body lawfully begotten or left any heyres But they
    Say That the said John Legatt Dyed before any part of the Con-
    sideracon for the parcell of the said lands was paid to the said
    Thomas Carvile & that after the death of the said John Legatt the
    said Thomas Carvile did upon the fourteenth day of March One
    Thousand Six hundred Sixty Three in Consideracon of ffour Thou-
    to her & her heyres forEver and that she the said Bridget Legatt
    The Widdow & Relict of the said John Legatt Assigne the premises
    to her & her heyres for Ever and that she the said Bridget Legatt
    hath Ever since held & occupied the same & paid the Rent to the
    Lord Propry due for the same & hath beene at Great Charge in
    building upon the same & Clearing and improveing the same & that
    the said lands are worth by the Yeare as the same is now improved
    four hundred pounds of Tobacco In Testimony whereof as well
    the said Comissionrs as the said Jurors to this Inquisition have
    Interchangeably sett theire hands & Seales the day & yeare Above
    Said.                      Jno Douglasse Sealed
                               Rob.t Doyne Sealed
    Thomas Lomax Sealed       his marke
    Richard Ambrose Sealed Thomas m Wakefeild     Sealed
    Samuell Clarke Sealed  John Newton   Sealed
    Robert Rowlants Sealed  his marke
    Walter Davies Sealed   John ffearson Sealed
    William H Hinsey      Sealed       his marke
       his marke          Thomas Clipsham Sealed
    James Tier   Sealed   John Brookes  Sealed

     Which being Read in Open Court it is the Judgement of the Court
    this fourteenth day of Aprill one Thousand Six hundred Seaventy
    SIX that the inheritance in the Inquisition named is Escheated to his
    Lordpp the Lord Propry only One Third part thereof reserved to
    Bridgett late wife of the Said John Legatt dureing her life
                  Janry the 16th 1676/7         p. g6

     Wee whose names are here under Written being A Jury of Inquiry
    by Vertue of A writt from the Honble Chancellour Dated the Thir-
    teenth of May One Thousand Six hundred Seaventy Six and
    prseflted by Cap.t Jonathan Sibrie and Mr William Pearce of this
    County of Caecill to Us for to Enquire what Lands Matthias
    Cornelius late of this County Decd Died Seized of att the time of his