Chancery Court Proceedings, 1679.  535

     hearing and debateing thereupon, this Court thereupon and upon Liber P C
     hearing the Will of Stephen Mountague in the bill of Complt men-
     toned and the deposicons taken in this Cause was fully satisfied, that
     the said trust in the bill of Complaint menconed was well and suffi-
     ciently proved to be to the use of the said Complts and their heyres
     for Ever And that had not the said trust bin so effectually proved
     as itt was Yet it appeared to this Court that the said Defendant p. 145
     had noe right or Title to the said Land called Howland by the
     said Will there being noe Exposicon thereof made by the said Will
     and that the words [Generall heyre] cannot Create to the person
     soe named any estate of inheritance Doe therefore think fitt and
     soe order and Decree that the said Comp.lts and their heyres doe
     hold and enjoy the said Land and premisses called Howland to them
     and their heyres for Ever according to the trust aforesaid and that
     the Defendant his Tennants and assignes doth forthwith deliver
     unto the said Complts or to their Said mother and gardian in trust for
     them or to such as shee or they shall appoint to receive the same
     the quiet and peaceable possession of the said Land called Hówland
     ifree and cleere of all Incumbrances done by him or any clayming by
     from or under him or them and that the Said Defendant doe pay
     unto the said Comp :lt Costs of suite in this behalf e by them and the
     said Richard Beck their ffather layd out and Expended


          Att a Court of Chancery held att the Citty of Saint
        Maryes the sixteenth day of October in the fourth yeare
        of the Dominion of Charles &c Betweene Elizabeth Beck
        Mary Beck and Margret Beck infants ye daughters and Co-
        heyres of Richard Beck deed of Charles County being
        infants under the age of one and Twenty yeares by Eliza-
        beth Beck their mother and gardian Complts and George
        Godfrey of Charles County Defendant

                          Present

          The honoble Philip Calvert Esq.r Chancellor
          The honoble Coil Wm Calvert Esq.r Secretary
          The honoble Coil Vincent Lowe Esq.r Surveyo.r Gen.ll
          The honoble Coll William Stevens Esq.r

       Upon the hearing and debateing the matter in question betweene
     the Said parties this present day in the presence of the Attornyes
     on both sides The scope of the Comp :lts bill appeared to bee that the
     said Richard Beck ffather of ye Complts did in October Court in
     the yeare of our Lord God One thousand six hundred seaventy and