84     Chancery Court Proceedings, 1672.





        Liber CD m.r Ro: Carvile
                I desire you to appear for me as my attorney in Chancery in a
               Suit depending there between me & others at the Suit of Henry
               Scarborough and this shall be yo.r warrant
                Aug.st the 25.th 1672       yo.r John Gittings

                Qecilius &C To James Macky of Charles County of our s.d prov
               ince of Maryland Greeting. We Command you that all Excuses Set
               apart & all busieness Ceasing you be & psonally appear before us in
               our high Court of Chancery the first day of October now next
               Comeing wherever it shall then be to answer unto Such things as
               Shall Objected against you by Daniell Johnson Infant by ffrancis
               Kilbourne & Elizabeth his wife his Guard Comp.It in a Case of
               Equity depending before the Justices of our Said Court ag.t you
               defend.t that our Justices hearing the Cause may do therein as
               according to Justice & the Laws of this province ought to be done &
               this you may in no wise Omitt under the pain of an hundred pounds
               Sterling Wittness p the 16.th of September in the 44.th year of
               our Dominion over our Said province Annocp Domini 1672

                Caecilius absolute Lord & prop.ry of the provinces of Maryland
               & Avalon Lord Baron of Baltemore &c To all the Inhabitants within
               our province of Maryland Greeting, Whereas for Severall Weighty
               & Urgent Occasions & affairs Relating to our Self & to the State
               and defence of our Said province of Maryland We did hold a Gen
          (fol. 94) erall Assembly at our City of S.t maries the Seven & Twentieth day
               of march one Thousand Six hundred Seventy one w.ch upon the
               nineteenth day of Aprill then next following for divers Considera
               tions us thereunto moveing We did prorogue untill the tenth day of
               Octob.r then next following and on the nineteenth day of the Same
               Octob.r We did for Severall reasons prorogue the Same Assembly
               untill the third tuesday in Octob.r then next following being the
               fifteenth day of the month of Octob.r in the xxxxi.th year of our
               Dominion over our sd Province Annocp Domini 1672 And for that
               the s.d fifteenth day of Oct.r when our sd Generall Assembly Should
               Sitt is now near at hand, We for divers Reasons us hereunto move
               ing do hereby publish & declare that the Same Generall Assembly
               Shall be & is hereby prorogued from the S.d fifteenth day of Octob.r
               untill the first Tuesday in may being the Sixth day of may W.Ch
               shall be in the year of our Lord God 1673. Whereof as well our
               Cap.t Gen.” of our Said province of Maryland and our membrs of
               our upper house of Assembly as also all the Deputys & Delegates
               of our Lower house of Assembly and all other the Inhabitants of
               our s.d province of Maryland whom it may Concern are to take
            notice and to Order their affairs accordingly, And we Do hereby
          (fol. 94) Order and Command our Respective Sheriffs of or Severall Countys