188       Provincial Court Proceedings, 1667.

       Liber FF   of Maryland wth free ingreese egress & Regresse for hoggs & cattle
              and likewise free liberty of Hunting hawking fishing & fowling as
              alsoe to fell trees and carry away Timber for the use of the sd Ed-
              monds To have and to hold The one hundred acres of land with
              all priviledges profitts & Commodityes unto him the said James Ed-
              monds his heires and assignes from the Day of the Date hereof
       [p.474]    for ever Yeilding & paying there fore yearely & eüy yeare unto the
              sd Thomas Gerrard his heires & assignes one Barrell of sound Indian
              Come or tenn shillings sterling or one hundred pounds of good to-
              bacco & two Capons forty dayes before or after Christmas att the
              Mannor house of St Clemts aforesd & there to appeare upon Sumons
              to doe Homage & service att Court leets & Court Barons tht shall or
              may be holden upon the said Mannor according to the Usuall Custome
              of England or the lawe of this province And the sd Thomas Gerrard
              doth bind himselfe his heires Executors Administrators & assigns to
              warrant defend and mainteyne the said Bargaine & Sale of the above
              said land unto the said James Edmonds his heires Executors Admrs
              & assignes from all Just claimes & titles to be made by any pson or
              persons whatsoever In wittnes whereof the parties above named to
              theis pnt Indentures interchangeably have sett their hands and Scales
              the day & yeare above written
               The abovesd land held of St Clemts Mannor
              Signed sealed & delifled          Tho: Gerrard
               together possession given
               wth Turfe & twigg in the pnce of us
                  Simon Reeder
                  Tobias Bayly

               This Indenture made the third day of Aprill Anno one thousand
              six hundred Sixty & Seven Betweene James Hussey of Charles
              County in the Province of Maryland planter of the one pty & John
              Hackester of the said Province & County of the other party Cooper
              wittnesseth that the sd James Hussey as well for & in consideracon
              of the Quantity of eight thousand pounds of tobacco in hand payd
              before the Ensealing & delivery hereof by the sd John Hackister,
              whereof & wherewth the said James Hussey doth acknowledge him-
              selfe Satisfyed contentented & paid and thereof & of every part &
              parcell thereof doth acquitt & discharge the said John Hackister his
              heires Executors & Admrs & every of thm by theis presents as allsoe
              for divers good causes & consideracons him thereunto moving have
              granted bargained & Sold assigned Sett oü & confirmed & by theis
              presents doe fully cleerly & Absolutely grant bargaine & sell assigne
       [p. 475]   Sett over and confirme unto the said John Hackister his heires execu-
              tors and Admrs all tht parcell of land called Rivers's Spring Scituate
              lying & being on the East side of the fresh of Avon river formly
              called Nangemy creeke in Charles County next adjoyning to the land