Provincial Court Proceedings, 16 72/3. 73



       thereupon fully Leavyed, and in what manner you shall Execute Liber M M
       this our writ you shall make appeare before our Justices of our
       Provincial Cort at our next Provincial Cort to be holden at St Maryes
       Citty the Eleaventh day of February next and have you also there
       this our writ Witnes &c the 14th of December 1672.
        And now here at this day to wit the Eleaventh day of ffebruary
       aforesayd came the said John Browning by John Morecroft his
       Attorney, and the Sheriff that is to say Thomas Jones gentt now
       Retornes a certeine Inquisition before him taken in these words
       (vizt)

       Somerset County ss. An Inquisition taken by Indenture at Poca
       moke in the County aforesayd the thirtieth day of January in the
          yeare of the Dominion of Caecilius &c Annoq Domini 1672 be
       fore me Thomas Jones gentl Sheriff of the County aforesayd by virtu
       of the writ of his Lopp the Lord and Proprietary to me directed,
       and to this inquisition annexed by the oath of John Hilliard Robert
       Catlin William Davis Samuell Long Wittm ifurnisse John King
       William ‘Greene Nicholas Hudson Edward Wale James Hinderson
       Robert Houlston John Williams and John ffreeman, who say on
       their oath that John Coleman in the writ aforesayd the 19th day of
       December last past and after was seized in his Demesne as of ifee
       of a Tract of Land Conteyning five hundred acres more or lesse
       according to Survey made lyeing and being in Pocarnoke River in
       the County aforesayd, of the Cleare yearly vallue in all issues over
       and above the Reprizes of One hundred pounds of Tobacco which
       all and singular the aforesayd John Coleman had for him Surveyed
       and Patented according to the Custome & Tenure of Maryland wch
       said Tract of land in the Tenure of the aforesayd John Coleman
       with all & singular the apptnces that is to say the moyety or halfe
       thereof for the Medietie of the said Land I the aforesayd Sheriff
       have Caused to be Delivered to John Browning in the writ aforesayd p. 13
       named to be held to him and his assignes according to the forme of
       the Statute thence provided as his ifreeholde, untill his debt of five
       thowsand pounds of Tobacco, together with his Damages in the
       writ aforesayd mentioned fully thence he shall have leavyed, as the
       writ aforesayd wills and Requires, And further the Jurors aforesayd
       on their oath aforesayd say that the said John Coleman no other or
       more has or after the Recognizance of the Debt aforsayd had goods
       or Chattels Lands or Tenemts in the County afursayd within their
       Knowledge, In Testimony of wch aswell I the said Sheriff as the
       Jurors aforesayd to this inquisition our seales alternately have put
       the 30th day of January & in the place & yeare abovesayd.
        John Browning payd by Rule of Court the Sume of nine hun
       dred                 pounds of Tobacco allowed by
       the Cort for Executing this writ.