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      Being Good Sufficient men of my Bayliwick who upon their oaths Liber C D
    have Viewed the Said ten acres of Land Do find that to Grant unto
    Jacob Young Ten acres of Land as aforesaid for the Erecting
    of a Water Mill within a Creek Called perry Creek near to Susque
    hannah River lately the Land of m.r John Bateman But now is p.76
    Supposed by us to be the possession of Cap.t Richard Perry of (fol. 97)
    Calvert County will be in no way any damage to his Lordship nor
    to the owner of the Said Land in falling of Timber or otherwise
    more then will be made Good to the Tennant in possession by the
    payment of the yearly rent of four pence for and during the Tennor
    of Eighty year according to the Act of Assembly in that Case
    Provided and that the s.d Land is holden the manno.r of
    within the Co.ty of and now to the best of our knowledge
    in the possession of Cap.t Richard Perry as aforesaid, And that we
    find that there is within the aforesaid Tract of Land Eight hundred
    acres none of which we find disposed of Given under our hands the
    nine and Twentieth day of June in the 40.th year of the Dominion
    of Caecilius and in the year of our Lord God 1672
    John Hodson   sealed, Robert Jones   sealed,
    Henry Hazlewoodsealed,            Edward Beedle    sea!e
    Samuell Bostonsealed, Richard Collins seale
    John Collett  sealed,      the mark of
    John Mascard  sealed, Rutton Garrett  seale
    Matt Kniveton sealed, Peter Ellis     seale
    John Tarkinton   sealed,
      his mark

      Taken the day & year above written p me Tho. Carleton seale

                                         Sheriff

      Caecilius &c To Thomas Carleton and Mathew Ward Gent Greet- (fol. 98)
    ing Whereas Margaret Perry hath Lately Exhibited her Bill of
    Comp!t before us in our Court of Chancery against George Wells
    and Johanna Goldsmith widd.° and others defendants and Whereas
    we have Commanded the Said defendants to be before us in our
    Court of Chancery at a day now past Know ye therefore that we
    Trusting to your fidelities and provident Circumspections have Or
    dained you and do hereby Empower & Authorize you diligently to
    Examine the Said defendants upon the Tenno.r of the Said Bill
    A Copy whereof Shall be herewith Sent you, And therefore We
    Command you that at Such Certain days & times as you at your
    discretion Shall think Convenient you go to the Said def.ts if they
    cannott Conveniently come unto you, And that you take the Said
    defend.ts Answers and Reduce the Same into writing they having
    first taken their Severall Corporall oaths to the Same upon the
    Holy Evangelists of God and when you have So done that you Send