Provincial Court Proceedings, 1675.     5

        vised Advised or required In wittnes whereof the abouesaid partyes Liber N N
        haue interchangably hereunto sett their hands & fixed their Seales
 the day & yeare first aboue written signum
                                  Philip + Land (sealed)
        Signed Sealed & deld in the presence of us
        G V Sweringen Char: De Laroche Ed: Williams
        On the backside of the atoregoing Deed was written vizt
                        Novembr 22th 1675
             The within written Indenture was by the within named Philip
             Land Acknowledged to be his Act & Deed to the uses therein
             named in the Provincl Court the day & yeare abovesaid
                                Jno Blomfeild Cl Cur Provincl

             Memorandum the Thirteenth day of April Anno 1675 his
             Lordpp sendeth forth his Writt of Mandamus the tenor
             whereof followeth in these words vizt
        Caecilius Absolute Lord & Proprietry of the Provinces of Mary-
        land & Avalon Lord Baltemore &c to our Trusty & welbeloved
        Capt John Jordaine & John Warren gentt Greeting We Comãnd
        you that by the Oathe of Twelue good & Lawfull men of yor County
        of St Maryes by whom the truth of the matter may the better be
        knowne you diligently Inquire what lands & Tenemts John Thimbleby
        late of the same County Decd held of us in his Demesne as of ffee
        att the tyme of his death, & of what Mannor & by what services, &
        how much those lands or Tenemts are of value by the yeare in all
        Issues, & att what tyme the said John Thimbleby dyed, & who is his
        next heyre, & of what age the heyre is, & who those lands or Tenemts
        from the tyme of the death of the said Jno Thimbleby haue or doe
        Occupy, & ye Issues & profitts thereof haue or doe Receive, & by what
        title, & how, & in what manner, & the Inquiscon thereof distinctly &
        openly made to us in our Chancery under yor hands & Sea!es & the
        hands & Seales of them by whom itt sha!be made without delay you
        send & this writt wittnes our selfe att our Citty of St Maryes the 13th
        day of Aprill in the 43th ycare of our Dominion &c Annoq Dm 1675
                                          Charles Calvert
             On the backside of the aforegoing writt was written vizt
        The Returne of this writt Appeares by the Schedule thereunto
        annexed
                              Jno Jourdaine
                                the W marke of Comissionrs
                                Jno Warren
        Maryland ss                                 p. 4
          An Inquisicon Indented taken upon the 8th day of Novembr in the
        44th yeare of ye Dominion of Caecilius Absolute Lord & ProprietrY
        of the Provinces of Maryland & Avalon Lord Baron of Baltemore