340        Provincial Court Proceedings, 1676.

           Liber N N Att which said eight & twentith day of November the same sheriff
                  maketh returne of the writ aforesaid with an inquisition thereunto
                  annexed the tenor whereof followeth in these words vizt.
                  St Maries County ss.
                    An inquisition indented taken at Greene Spring On Bas ford Man-
                  nour in the County aforesaid the Second day of November in the
                  first yeare of the Dominion of the Rt Honble Charles &c Over this
                  Province Annoq Dom 1676 before me Clement Hill Sheriff of
                  the County aforesaid by virtue of a writ from the Lord Proprietary
                  to me directed & to this inquisition annexed by the Oathes of John
                  Goldsmith John Smith Thomas Carvile John Hilton Henry Poulter
                  Thomas Reeves John Hopkins John Gee John Bullock Vincent
                  Mansfeild Robert Atkins & Edward Turner all of the County afore-
                  said who say upon their Oathes that Thomas Gerard Esq in the
                  writ aforesaid named being indebted as in the writ is Specified was
                  Seized in his Lopp as of ffee of the Mannour of Clements in the
                  County aforesaid of the cleare yearly value in all issues & profitts of
                  six thousand three hundred & eighty pounds of tobacco & of the
                  Mannour of Basford in the County aforesaid of the cleare yearly
                  value in all issues & proffitts of nineteene hundred & Seventy pounds
                  of tobacco and further the jurors aforesaid Say upon their Oathes
                  that the aforesaid Thomas Gerard Esq hath no goods or chattells,
                  nor other lands & Tenements in the County aforesaid to their Knowl-
                  edge that they could extend or apprize to Satisfie the Said debt
                  which Said Mannour of Basford with all its Rights jurisdictions
                  & perquisits for the One moyety of all the Lands & Tenements of
                  the aforesaid Thomas Gerard Esq valued as aforesaid I the afore-
                  said Sheriff doe cause to be delivered unto Thomas Gerard Gent
                  in the writ aforesaid named to be held to him & his assignes accord-
                  ing to the forme of the Statute in that case made & provided as his
                  ffree land & Tenements untill his debt of thirty five thousand Six
                  hundred & eight pounds of tobacco for damages in the writ aforesaid
                  mentioned be fully Levyed & Satisfied as in the writ aforesaid it is
                  comanded and required together with interest for forbearance & all
                  other his necessary charges in & about the same Such as the Court
                  shall thinke fitt to allow off. In testimony whereof, I the Said
                  Sheriff & the jurors abovenamed to this inquisition have interchang-
                  ably Sett Our hands & Seales the day place & yeare first abovewritten.
                    On the backside of which inquisition was endorsed as followeth
              p. 206 Memorandum that quiett & peaceable possession of the Lands &
                  Tenements of the Mannour of Basford was given & delivered by
                  Clement Hill within named to Thomas Gerard within mentioned
                  by virtue of a writ from the Lord Propry to him the said Clement
                  Hill directed and according to the forme of a Statute in that case
                  made & provided to be held to him the Said Thomas Gerard or his
                  assignes according to the forme & effect of the within written Inquisi