Provincial Court Proceedings, 1677/8.    219
        St Maryes County ss                         Liber N N
         An Inquisicon indented taken att Mattapany on St Clements Man-
        not in the County aforesaid the first day of Decembr in the third
        yeare of the Dominion of the right Honble Charles &c over this
        Province Anno Doni 1677. before me Gerard Slye Sheriffe of the
        County aforesaid, by vertue of a writt from the Lord Propry to me
        directed & to this Inquisicon annexed, by the Oaths of Thomas
        Lomax, Wm Watts, John Heard, John Bullock, John Turner,
        Thomas Stagg, Wm Longworth, Robert Solomon, John Shepheard,
        John Upgate, Henry Sprye & Benja Gargill all of the County afore
        said who say upon their Oaths, that Thomas Gerard Esqr in the
        writt aforesaid named being indebted as in the writt aforesaid is
        specified, was Seized in his Lordpp as of ffee of the Mannor of
        Basford in the County aforesaid of the cleer yearely Value in all
        issues & profitts of Nineteen hundred & seventy pounds of tobacco,
        wch being aliready extended as the moiety of his lands & tenemts as
        aforesaid, and deliuered into the hands & possession of Thomas
        Gerard genti by Clement Hill then Sheriffe by vertue of a Writt
        from the Lord Propry to him directed and according to the forme of
        the Statute in that behalf e made & provided And the Jurors doe
        further say upon their Oaths, that the said Thomas Gerard Esqr
        aforesaid was seized of his Lordpp as of ffee of the Mannor of
        St Clements in the County aforesaid of the cleere yearely Value in
        all issues & profitts of Six thousand three hundred & eighty pounds
        of tobacco And the Jurors further say upon their Oaths, that the
        aforesaid Thomas Gerard Esqr hath no Goods & Chattels nor any
        other lands & tenemts in this County aforesaid to their knowledge
        that they could extend or appraise to satisfie the said debt as in the
        Writt is exprest, the moiety of which said Mannor of st Clements
        now in the hands & possession of the ExTs of the said Thomas
        Gerard Esqr with all its rights jurisdictions & perquisitts for the
        moiety of all the lands & tenemts of the aforesaid Thomas Gerard
        Esqr Valued as aforesaid I the aforesaid Sheriffe doe cause to be
        delivered unto Clement Haly & Mary his wife Admr of all & singuler
        the Goods & Chattels of Edward Connery deceased as in the writt
        aforesaid is named To be held to them & their assignes according to
        the forme of the Statute in that case made & provided as their free
        lands & tenemts untill their debt of twenty five thousand pounds of
        tobacco for dathages in the writt aforesaid menconed be fully Levyed
        & satisfied as in the writt aforesaid is comanded & required, together p. 471
        with interest for forbearance & all other his necessary charges in &
        about the same suite as the Court shall think fitt & allow of In testi
        mony whereof as well I the aforesaid Sheriffe as the Jurors above
        named to this Inquisition have alternately sett our hands & scales the
        day & yeare abovesaid
         Gerard Slye Sheriffe    (scale) Wm Langworth     (scale)
         Tho: Lomax  (scale)     Tho: Stagg (scale)