96        Provincial Court Proceedings, 1673.

         Liber M M  at a marked Pine Tree standing upon a Pointe by the Creeke side,
                 And Runing for breadth from the said Pyne south and by West
                 One hundred Perches bounded on the West by a line Drawne East
                 and by North for length three hundred and Twenty perches, On the
                 North by a line Drawne North and by East from the End of the
                 Easte and by North line One hundred perches till it intersect a
                 paralell with the said Creeke on the East by the said Creeke and
                 paralell on the South by ye first South and by West line Conteyning
                 Two hundred Acres more or !esse Now although the said Samuell
                 Withers hath made good Rights for ye said Land yet because he
                 hath not sued forth a Patent for the same, within the time limited
                 according to his Condicions of plantation, the said Two hun
                 dred acres of land is become Escheated to the Right honoble the
                 Lord Proprietary his heires and successors, And I Charles Cal
                 vert Escp his Lopps Receiver Genrall within this Province being in
                 formed thereof, Doe in the name of the Right honoble the Lord
                 Proprietary will and Comand you that you make, seizure of the said
                 two hundred acres of Land called Witherington according to the
                 bounds before menconed for that the same is Escheated unto his
                 said Lopp and that you make Retorne of the seizure thereof and
                 how you have Executed this prcept at or next Provincial Cort, And
                 for so doeing this shalbe your warrant Given undr my hand and
                 lesser Seale of the said Province the 12th day of ffebruary in the
                 41th yeare of the Dominion of Caecilius &c Annoq Domini 1672.
                                    (Locus       Charles Calvert
                              (sigilli.)
                 To Mr Stephen Tully high
                   Sheriff of Talbot County
            On the backside of the foregoing warrant was thus written vizt.
                           To his Excellency The Capt Generatt.
                   These in humble manner showeth that in obedience to this speciall
                 warrant I was the second day of this prsent Aprill upon the land
                 called Witherington lyeing in Talbot County, and made seizure of
                 the said Land for the use of the Right honoble the Lord Proprietary
                 the seizure made as aforesayd by me
                                       Stephen Tully Shif Corn Talbot.

                Thomas Notley Nehemiah Blackiston late of the County of
                       agt St Maryes gentl was by a writ of Priviledge
             Neherniah Blackistonj issueing out of this Cort Attached to answere
                               unto Thomas Notley one of the Attorneys of
                               this Cort &c of a plea of Debt.
                   And whereupon the said Thomas in his proper pson saith that
                 whereas the said Nehemiah Blackiston the fourth day of June in the
                 yeare 1672 by his certeine bill obligatory signed and Sealed with
                 the bill of the said Blackiston the day & yeare abovesayd here in