Provincial Court Proceedings, 1676.     193
        May 27 1676.                                Liber N N
          The above written deed was in open Court acknowledged by the
        said Thomas Keyting & Elizabeth his wife to the uses therein men
        coned                  Jno Blomfeild Cl Cur Provincial

          By vertue of a writt of Mandamus or Enquirie Issued out of his
        Lordpps high Court of Chancery bearing date the 20th day of May
        in the 42th yeare of the Dominion of Caecilius Absolute Lord &
        Propry of this Province of Maryland Anno Doni. 1674. & to Us
        directed—This Inquisicon Indented taken before us George Pudding-
        ton & Robert ffranklin of the County of Ann Arundell att the the
        dwelling house of Richard Hill of the County aforesaid by the Oaths
        of Mr
        Cornelius Howard foreman  (sealed)Jacob Harness   (sealed)
        John Howard    (sealed)   Jno Taylor(sealed)
        Samll Howard   (sealed)   Jno Sumerland (sealed)
        Edward Dorsey  (sealed)   Wm Bateman(sealed)
        Jno Hamond     (sealed)   Wm Geildall(sealed)
        Wm Harness     (sealed)   Charles Stevens    (sealed)

          Who upon their Oaths say as followeth
        The said Jurors upon their Oaths say, that Bartholomew Glevin of
        Ann Arundell County Chirurgion did in his life tyme hold & Enjoy
        the two hundred acres of land as is in the said Writt of Mandamus
        called Craney Neck, & so seized dyed in the yeare of our Lord
        1665. & in the Month of Decembr leaveing no Issue of his body
        lawfully begotten nor any other person to whom the said lands &
        prmisses ought to come by descent as heyre to the said Glevin, &
        that no Rent hath ever since been yeilded or paid to any of his
        Lordpps officers thereunto appointed, the said land being ever since
        the said Glevins Decease lyen wast & void haveing upon itt only one
        old tobacco house ready to fall & one apple tree & some few cherry
        trees & paire trees, neither any good fences or other conveniencies
        only in the yeare 1674 being this prsent yeare, there is one Tho.
        Toyson a poore man placed upon the said land (as he saith) by John
        Wright of the County of Kent, neither yeilding nor paying any
        Rent to the said Wright Or any other And as for the Mannor of p. 123
        what to be held, or what services hitherto yeilded or paid cannot by
        the Records of our said County by us be found And that by reason
        of the meannesse of the said land & the so long lying wast there
        arising noe profitts nor benifitts from the same, that the yearely
        Value thereof cannot be worth more then One hundred pounds of
        tobacco p annum, And hereunto in humble manner we haue Sub-
        scribed as may Wittnes our hands & Scales this Twentieth day of
        June in the yeare of our Lord. 1674.
                                Geo:  Puddington (sealed)
                                Robert ffrancklin (sealed)