76         Chancery Court Proceedings, 1672.

        Liber C D  of the Records & proceedings in this your County Court And there-
               fore you shall Cause to be brought before you at the Said days &
               place the Writts precepts process and Indictments to your Court
        (fol. 84)  and Jurisdiction belonging, That the Same may be Inspected and
               by a due Course determined Given at our City of S :t maries this
               nineteenth day of may in the 40.th year of our Dominion over our
               province Annocp Dth 1672        Charles Calvert

                Caecilius &c To our Trusty & Well beloved Thomas Howell and
               George Uty Gent Greeting Whereas we have lately by O.r Com-
               mission under our Great Seale of our Said province, Nominated
           p.66    Constituted and appointed you the Said Thomas Howell and George
         (fol. 84) Uty and the Severall other persons in the s.d Commission named to
               be Commissioners & Justices for y.e keeping the peace in and for
               our County of Baltemore County with full power and Authority to
               keep our County Court there at Such days & times as by the Law
               in that Case made is provided now Know ye that we reposing Great
               Trust and Confidence in yo.r fidelities and prudent Circumspections
               have assigned you and by virtue of these presents do Give unto you
               full power & Authority you the Said George Uty having first taken
               the usuall oath of Comissioner and Justice of the peace of our Said
               County upon the holy Evangelists w.ch Oath we do hereby Em-
               power and Authorize you the said Thomas Howell duly to Ad-
               minister and you the S.d George Uty having Received & taken the
               Said Oath We do hereby Authorize you to Administer the like oath
               of Commissioner and Justice of the peace of the S.d County to him
               the Said Thomas Howell which being done and performed That
               then you call & Cause to Come before you the other persons in the
               Said Comission Nominated & appointed to be Commissioners and
               Justices of the peace of our Said County and duely & truly to Ad-
               minister unto them and Every of them Joyntly or Severally the Said
               Oath of Commissioners and Justices of the peace of our S.d County
               they also taking the Same upon the holy Evangelists And when ye
               have So done we Will and Command you that you do under your
               hands and Seals Certifie us of yor whole proceedings herein without
               delay into our Court of Chan.ry wheresoever it shall then be To-
               gether with this Writt Wittness our Self at our City of S.t maries
               the day of may in the fortieth year of our Dominion over
               our Said province Annoq Domini 1672 Charles Calvert

         (fol. 85) Qecilius &c To our Trusty and Well beloved Daniell Clerke and
               William Stevens the Elder Gent in o.r Co.tY of Dorch.r Greeting We
               Command you that by the Oaths of Twelve Good & Lawfull men of
               your Said County of Dorchester by whom the truth of the matter
               may be the better known and Inquired of That you diligently In-
               quire what Lands and Tenements Richard Miller held of us in his