MANOR COURT PROCEEDINGS
                       ST. CLEMENT'S MANOR
                        ST. MARY'S COUNTY

        The proceedings of the court leet and court baron of St. Clement's Manor in Liber B
        St. Mary's County are extant in the form of two fragments of the original record.
        Both portions bear the same watermark and perhaps are remnants of a single record
        book. The last page is blank and it has the appearance of an outside page of a
        coverless booklet. The eight folios carry 14 pages of records, representing five
        court sessions. The earliest of these was in 1659 and the latest in 1672. On the
        fifth folio are plantation memoranda written in 1685 on a page that the court
        clerks had left blank. Two entries state amounts owed to negro help and one
        relates to horse breeding.


                   A Court Leet & Court Baron of Thomas Gerard [p. —]
        St Clements
                 ss Escp there held on Thursday the xxvii of October
          Manour
                   1659 by Jno Ryves gent Steward there

      Constable:  Richard Foster sworne

      Resiants:   Arthur Delahay: Route: Cooper: Seth Tinsley: Willm:
             at Robte Coles: Jno Gee Jno Green: Benjamin Hamon Jno
            Maccart:

      Freeholdrs Robte Sly gent: Willth: Barton gent: Route Cole: Luke
               Gardiner: Barthollomew Phillips Christopher Carnall:
                Jno Norman: Jno Goldsmith

       Leaseholders  Thomas Jackson: Rowland Mace: Jno Shankes Rich-
                Jand Foster: Samuell Harris: John Mansell: Edward
            Turner: Frances Sutter wid: Jno Tennison:

Jury and Jno Mansell                Jno Tennison
         Homage Bartholl: Phillips  Jn0 Goldsmith
                J no Shankes        Jno Maccart
                            Sworne         .  Sworne
                Jno Gee        Sam: Harris
                Edward Turner  Jn0 Norman
                Seth Tinsley  Cofer Carnall

       Ordr agt    Wee the aboue named Jurors doe prseflt to the
         Sam: Harris Court that wee finde how about the 3d day of octobr
                           1659 that:

            Imprimis wee prsent that about the third of October 1659
            that Samuell Harris broke the peace a stick and that
            there was bloudshed comitted by Samuell Harris on the body
            of John Mansell for wch hee is fined 40th tob wth is remitted