Charles County Court Proceedings, 1671—1674.     331

     men of your Baylifwick to Enquire the bounds of the Said Land & Liber E
     to whom it properly apperteynes & that you Cause that thereof they
     make a returne under their hands & Seales with the Surveyour like-
     wise. Hereof faile not Given under my hand & the County Seale
     this 9th of Augt 1670 Ent p me
     To the Sheriffe of Charles    Henry Bonner Clk
       County or his Deputy
       By vertue of which warrt the Sheriff Empanettd twelve lawfull
     men of the County & the Returne by them under their hands &
     Seales made here in Court produced as foll: viz:
       Whereas by vertue of a warrant granted the ninth day of August
     Anno 1670 by the worshipfull Comrs of Charles County wee whose
     names are here underwritten being on a Jury impaneild in a certain
     matter of difference depending in an accon of trespas between John
     Charman Plt & Robert Downes deft Concerning a parcell of land now
     in Controversy between them the Said Charman & Downes to En-
     quire the bounds of the Said Charmans land and to whom the land
     now in Controversy properly apperteynes and thereof to make a
     returne under our hands & Seales In Complyance whereof wee having
     with the Surveyour Surveyed as Exactly as we Could with his
     Chaine the bredth of the Said Charmans land and we do find that
     the Said Charman hath about twenty perches more wthin his bounds
     then the quantity of perches mentioned in his the Charmans And [fol. 42]
     that hee the Said Charman holding the bounds of his pattent then
     the Said land in dispute is Really & properly the Said Charmans but
     if in Case he holdeth no more then the Just quantity of Perches
     menconed in his the Said Charmans pattent then part of the Said
     land to witt the plantacon to be Really & properly belonging unto the
     Said Robert Downes and unto this we have here fixed our hands &
     Seales this 25th of August 1670: Signed:
       Richard Fowke    (locus William P Potter (locus
                        sigilli)  his marke  sigilli)
       B: Marshiguay   (sigill)       John H Hill (locus
                          his marke     sigilli)
       James M Mackey   (locus Thomas T Galley (locus
         his marke      sigilli)  his marke  sigilli)
       Alexandr A white(locusJohn + Wodard(locus
           his marke sigilli) his marke sigilli)
       James L Lee   (locusGeorge Lodge (locus
         his marke   sigilli)           sigilli)
       Cornelius X Macarnan(locus     EDWARD MING (locus
            his marke sigilli)                sigilli)
       But the Deft by his Atturny R: Boughton pretending that although
     the Judgemt of the Court was that the Sd Charman was to Enjoy
     according to the bounds mentioned in his pattent to prove the tres-
     passe Comitted the plt requested the two Ensueing Evidences might