Provincial Court Proceedings, 1676. 315

                Thomas Notley Esq Deputy Leivt & Deputy Governour Liber N N
        Th H ble Philip Calvert Esq Chancellour
         e on   wm Calvert Esq Secretary   justices
           Henry Coursey Esq
                                       Jno Blomfeild Cl
         Then was the Honble Thomas Notley Esq sworne Cheife justice
        of the Provinciall Court.

         Mary Jones the wife of Morgan Jones petitioneth this Court to
        coffliserate her deporable condition to compell & order her husband to
        take such course & care for the maintenance of her & her Child as the
        Court shall thinke meet, otherwise she & her Child must inevitably be
        chargable to the County for their mainteinance, the estate which her
        husband now possesses being well Knowne to come him by the Peti-
        tioners Childs father Whereupon it is Ordered by the Court here the
        28th day of November 1676 that the said Morgan Jones allow his said
        wife yearly One winter Shute, One summer shute three paire of shoes
        and stockins, three barrells of Corne three shifts of dowlas or lock-
        erum and head linnen convenient & three hundred pounds of meate
        And that the Child have the Same allowance, and that the servant boy
        named ffrancis Browne be Kept in her custody to fetch her wood &
        water, and that Morgan Jones give Security to the Court or the
        Secretary for performance of this Order.

        Eodem die. Then Ordered that Arthur Carletons bond of adminis-
        tration upon the estate of Thomas Carleton deceased be delivered
        to the Attorny Generall to be sued.

         Memorandum the 17th day of June in the first yeare of his Lopps
        Dominion &c Annoq Dom 1676 his Lordp Sendeth his writ of
        Scire facias to the Sheriff of Kent County in these words Charles
        absolute Lord & Propry of the Provinces of Maryland & Avalon
        Lord Baron of Baltemore &c To the Sheriff of Kent County Greeting
        Whereas Our late ffather Caecilius of Noble memory did by his
        letters patent under the great seale of Our said Province of Mary-
        land beareing date the fiftenth day of ffebruary in the eight & twen-
        tith yeare of his Dominion &c Annoq Dorñ 1659 Grant unto Capt
        Samuel Pensax of London marriner by the name of Samuel Pensax
        a tract of Land lyeing On the east side of Chesepiake Bay and On
        the west side of a River in the said Bay called Chester River and
        On the north side of a Creeke in the said River called Broadnox
        Creeke Continueing One thousand acres more or lesse and the same
        erected into a Mannour by the name of Stepenheath And whereas
        Wee are informed that the said tract of land is Sithence become
        escheated unto Us for non payment of the Rent reserved in the
        said Grant Specified Wee Comãnd you that you make Knowne to the