90    Chancery Court Proceedings, 1672.





        Liber C D ing you be and personally appear before us in our Court of Chan
               cery on the first day of our next provinciall Court to be held at our
               City of S.t maries the tenth day of December next to answer unto
               James Nuthall Complainant & further to do & receive what O.r
               Justices of our S.d Co.rt Shall Consider of in that behalf according
               to the Laws & Constitutions of this province hereof not to fail
               under the penalty of one hundred pounds Sterling Wittness &c the
               12.th day of Nov.r in y.e 41.th year of the Dominion of Caecilius &c
               Annoq Dom 1672

        (fol. 101) Upon the Return of a writt quem diem Clausit Extr upon the
               Estate of Richard Miller deced was this following Inquisition re
               turned also
               Dorchestt ss:
                An Inquisition Indented taken at Masons Wineyard in the County
               aforesaid the first day u( July Annoq Dom 1672 before the Daniell
               Clerke Gent by virtue of a writt out of the high Court of Chancery
               of this province to me directed bearing date the Seventh day of
               November last past by the Oaths of Arthur Wright foreman John
               Avery William Robson Phineas Blackwood, Henry Turner William
               Jones, Samuell Millington, James Moadsley Richard Kendall Stephen
               Sealous, Rich.d Butwell, & Timothy Macknemara being Twelve
               Good & Lawfull men of y.e Co.ty' af.d who upon their s.d Corpor.0
               oaths Say as followeth
           P.79 Imprimis. They Say that Richard Miller in the writt named did
        (fol. 101) at the time of his death hold of the Right Hon.ble the Lord Pro

               prietary one Tract or parcell of Land Lying in Dorchestr afores.d
               Called Mason's Vinyard, Containing by Estimation one hundred
               acres holding of the manno.r of Baltemore in free and Common
               Soccage under the yearly Rent of two Shillings Sterling for all
               Services to be paid at the most usuall feasts in the year viz.t at the
               feast of the Annunciation of the Blessed virgin mary and at the
               feast of S.t Michael the Arch Angell by Even and Equall portions.
                Item They Say that the Said tract of Land is of the yearly value
               in all issues of Twenty Shillings Sterling Item they Say that the
               Said Richard Miller in the Said Writt named dyed in or about the
               month of July 1669, And that no heirs hath appeared Since, for
               defect whereof the Said Tract of Land Called mason's Vinyard did
               Escheat unto his Honour the Lord Proprietary and his heirs who
               hath full & Just Right to the Same
                Item They Say that from the time of the Decease of the Said
               miller till the fifteenth day of march in the year 1670 no one did
               Occupy or possess the Said Land but at the aforesaid fifteenth day
               of march Richard Meakins was possest of the Said parcell of Land
               in the Right of the R.t Hon.ble the Lord prop.ry who is now the