292        Provincial Court Proceedings, 1676.

           Liber N N   them according to the forme of the Statute in such case published
                   and provided doe deny and the same most unjustly permitt not to
                   be done according to the forme of the statute aforesaid (as it is Said)
                   In such manner in the same Court it is proceeded in that partition
                   should be made betweene the aforesaid Jno Rousby and Barbara his
                   wife & the aforesaid Peter & ffrances of the lands & tenements afore-
                   said with the appurtenncs That takeing with them or either of them
                   twelve free & lawfull men of this Province by whom the truth of
                   the matter may the better be Knowne in their proper persons they
                   goe unto the Lands & Tenements aforesaid with the appurtenncs &
                   there by their Oathes in the presence of the partyes aforesaid by
                   them to be warned if they will be present the same lands & tene-
                   ments with the appurtenances haveing respect to the true value of
                   them in two equall parts they cause to be parted And One part of
                   the said Lands & Tenemts with the appurtenances to the aforesaid
                   John Rousby and Barbara his wife in right of her the said Barbara
                   and also the other part of the said Lands & tenemts with the ap-
                   purtenances to the said Peter Sayer & ffrances his wife in right of
                   her the Said ffrances to hold to them in severalty they cause to be as-
                   signed & delivered So that neither the aforesaid John Rousby &
                   Barbara his wife of their half e part to them the said John & Barbara
                   of the Lands & Tenemts with the appurtenncs aforesaid belonging
              and the said Peter Sayer & ffrances his wife of their half e part to
               them the said Peter & ffrances of the Lands & Tenemts with the
                   appurtenaces aforesaid belonging may be able Severally to possesse
                   themselves And that partition by them distinctly & Openly so made
                   they have here before his Lopps justices of the same Court the two
                   & twentith day of May 1676 under their seales & the seales of them
                   by whom they make that partition and the names of those by whole
                   Oathes they should make that partition & that writ. Att which said
                   two & twentith day of May in the yeare aforesaid Came the Said
                   John Rousby in his proper person and the said Wm Coursey and
                   Philemon Lloyd now returne here a Certaine partition between the
                   partyes aforesaid of the Lands & Tenemts aforesaid by the same
                   Wm Coursey & Philemon Lloyd before them by virtue of the writ
                   aforesaid and according to the forme of the said writt by the Oathes
                   of twelve &c made which followeth.
                    By virtue of this writ from the Rt Honble the Lord Propry to Us
                   directed to the Partition annexed Wee Wm Coursey and Philemon
                   Lloyd of Talbott County this sixth day of May Anno 1676 haveing
                   taken with Us Peter Sayer & John Rousby and twelve free & legall
                   men of this County in the presence of Peter Sayer & Jno Rousby
                   in the writ aforesaid named In Our proper persons Wee came to
                   all the lands & Tenements in the said writ named (except One par-
                   cell of land named Morgans Hope being Out of the possession of
                   the said Peter Sayer & John Rousby) and there by their Oathes
                   haveing respect to the true value of the same Lands & Tenemts with