66         Chancery Court Proceedings, 1671.

          Liber C D An Inquisition Indented taken at Portobacco in Charles County
               this 13.th of December in y,e 40.th year of ye Dominion of Caecilius
               &c.a before Henry Adams Gent & Thomas Mathews Gent by virtue
               of a Commission in the nature of a writt of Mandamus to them
               directed to this Inquisition Annexed to Enquire after the Death of
               Simon Oversee Late of Charles County deced by the Oath of Ed-
               mond Lindsey, John Courts Alexander Smith, Archibald Wahob,
               John Paine Clement Theobald, James Littlepage Banthe: Coates,
               ffrancis Heyden John Alward, John Kimberrow Samuell Eaton
               which Said Jurors upon their Oaths Say that the Sd Symon Oversee
               was Seized of his Demeasneas of ffee upon the day of which he
               dyed which was about the Beginning of ffebruany Anno Domini 1659
            of one Thousand acres of Land Lying Scituate and being on the
          (fol. 71) East Side of Portobacco Creek in Charles County aforesaid being
               the Southermost part of two thousand acres of Land Granted by
               the Lord Prop :ry of the province of maryland unto Lieuten.t William
               Lewis according to his Grant under the Broad Seale of this province
               bearing date the 26.th day of Octob.r Anno Domini 1649 as by the
               Said Grant Recourse being thereunto had doth and may appear and
               by the s.d Lieutent William Lewis Sold unto Job Chandler and the
               Said Simon Oversee of which two Simon Oversee was the Survivor
               w.ch Said Land was holden of his Lpps manno.r of West S.t maries
               in free and Comön Soccage by ifealty only for all manner of Ser-
               vices yeilding & paying yearly unto the Lord Proprietary forty
               Shillings Sterling or Twenty Bushells of Good Indian Corne And
               the aforesd Jurors do further find that the aforesd Simon Oversee at
               the time of his decease as aforesaid was Seized and Dyed possessed
               of five hundred and fifty acres of Land called Rotterdam Lying
               on the East Side of the Eastermost branch of Nancemy Creek
               And further the Said Jurors Say that the S.” Simon Oversee at the
               time of his Death was Seazen in his Derneasne of Six hund.d acres
               of Land Called Stoopside whereon John Caine Lived then & doth
               Still live and that the sd Land (as they humbly conceive were held
               of his Lpps mannor of West St maries and by Such Services as was
               usually Expressed in his Lpps Grants about that time and further
               the said Jurors do find no heir that the Said Simon Oversee had,
               And the s.d Jurors do find further that the thousand acres first men-
               toned bought of William Lewis is in the possession of Edmond
               Lindsey by virtue of a Lease from Isaac Allerton who married the
               Relict of the Said Simon Oversee Granted to him the Said Edmond
               Lindsey for Twenty one years whereof there is about Eight years
         (fol. 72) Expired out of Thousand acres there is two hundred acres or
               thereabouts now in the possession of m.rs Ann ffowke by virtue of a
               Lease Granted by the Said Edmond Lindsey unto George English
               late of this County in whose possession it was three years or there-
               abouts and then Sold by him unto Coll.° Gerrard ffowke late husband