506        Chancery Court Proceedings, 1678.

        Liber P C  in these words viz :t Whereas we have made inspection into the
               Records of our said Province of Maryland in our Sectys Office
               remaining wherein itt appeareth amongst other things that Caecilius
               our late ffather of noble memory the Eighteenth day of July one
               thousand six hundred forty two under the great scale of our said
               Province did Grant unto Thomas Gerard gent' a tract of land bound-
               ing upon the South with Potowmeck River, upon the West with
               Wiccocomico River, upon the East with S :t Clements Bay, & upon
               the North with a right line drawn from a Creek in Wiccocomico
               River called Gerards Creeke South Easterly to the nearest branch
               of a Creek in S :t Clements bay called the fresh Creeke And
               likewise three Islands the one in Potowmack River called S.t Ciem-
               ents, the Second in the mouth of S :t Clements bay called S :t
               Katherines Island, & the third lying neer unto itt in the mouth
               of Wiccocomico River called S :t Margaretts Island, the said tract
               of land & Islands containing six thousand acres in the whole or
               thereabouts Upon such considcracon & under such rents & pro-
               visocs as in the same is expressed & referred And for that upon
               Informacon that the said Grant to the said Thomas Gerard granted
               in the lines thereof doth not comprehend above fourc hundred acres

               of land, but that the lines of the said land are cleerly mistaken, & yctt
               under colour the said Thomas Gerard in his life tyme & those that
               claime under him since his death have held as their own land a very
               great quantity of land by which we & our said ffather have been
                     of our rents for the surplusage lands more than the six
               thousand acres menconed in the said Patent And we being willing
               that the truth of the premisses should be fully discovered have
               caused the said tract of land to be Resurveyed & laid out anew by
               John Manley gent' deputy Survey.r under our trusty & welbeloved
               Baker Brooke Esq.r our Survey.r Gen :ll of our said Province reputed
               to be passed by the said Grant to the said Gerard Deceased which
               said Deputy Survey.r hath made returne of this Resurvey under his
               hand into our said Office that the said tract of land containeth Eleven
               thousand foure hundred acres By which itt is evident & apparent that
               our Said ffather of noble memory hath bin deceived in the said Grant,
               & that Patent for the same was unduely illegally & Surreptitiously
               obtained to the disinherizon of us & our heyres And the said Tho:
               Gerard being deceased & the possession of the prmisses being in
               Justinian Gerard gentl Sonn & heyre of the said Thomas Decd
           p. 121  Wee therefore comand you that by good & law full men of youre
               bailywick you make known & give warning to the said Justinian
               Gerard that he be & appeare before us in our Court of Chancery the
               Eighteenth day of this instant June wheresoever itt shall be holden
               to shew cause if any he hath why the said Letters Patent for the
               said land so surreptitiously obtained ought not to be revoaked