Provincial Court Proceedings, 1677/8.   243

        Roger Baker he cause to be deliuered by reasonable price & extent Liber N N
        To hold to him the Goods & Chattels aforesaid as his owne proper
        Goods & Chattels & the moiety aforesaid as his ffreehold to him &
        his assignes according to the forme of the Statute in that case made
        & provided untill a certaine debt of foure thousand eight hundred
        thirty eight pounds of tobacco as also the sume of five hundred
        thirty six pounds of tobacco costs of suite recovered in the Provin
        ciall Court agt the said Henry Cox by the said Roger Baker should
        be thereupon fully Levyed And in what manner he execute the same
        writt he make appeare here the fourth day of Decembr in the third
        yeare of his Lordps Dominion &c Annoq3 Doni 1677 wch said fourth
        day of Decembr on which the said Court was to be held was by his
        Lordps Writt of Adjournmt adjourned untill the thirteenth day of
        ffebruary then next following, Att which said thirteenth day of ffeb
        ruary in the yeare aforesaid the same Sheriffe maketh returne of the
        writt aforesaid with an Inquisicon thereunto annexed wch followes
        in these words vizt.
        Calvert County ss                           P. 491
          An Inquisicon indented taken att Hunting Creeke att Mr Joseph
        Tillys plantacon in the County aforesaid the twenty eighth day of
        Novembr in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred seventy
        seven before me Henry Darnall Sheriffe of the County aforesaid by
        vertue of a Writt of Elegit from his Lordpp to the Sheriffe directed
        & to this Inquisicon annexed by the Oaths of Wm Turner, John
        Biggs, Daniel Goldson, Saml Goosey Wm Howse senr Wm Howse
        junr Andrew Dickeson, John Leich, Tho: Edwards, Wm Keede,
        Tho: Tinsly, John King & Joseph Tilley all of the County aforesaid
        who say upon their Oaths that Henry Cox in the writt aforesaid
        named being indebted as in the writt is specified was seized in his
        Lordpp as of ffee two tracts of land named Cox ffreehold & Coxcomb
        in the Country aforesaid of the cleere yearely Value in all issues &
        profitts of two thousand pounds of tobacco And further the said
        Jurors say upon their Oaths, that the said Henry Cox hath no
        Goods or Chattels nor other lands or tenemts in the County aforesaid
        to their knowledge that they could extend or apprize to satisfie the
        said debt, which said Coxcomb according to Estimacon two hundred
        acres being the moiety aforesaid with all its rights jurisdictions &
        perquisitts for the one moiety of All the lands & tenemts aforesaid
        of the said Henry Cox valued as aforesaid I the said Sheriffe doe
        cause to be delivered unto the said Roger Baker in the writt afore
        said named To be held to him & his assignes according to the forme
        of the Statute in that case made and provided as his free land &
        tenemt untill his debt of five thousand three hundred seventy foure
        pounds of tobacco in the writt named be fully levyed & satisfied as in
        the writt aforesaid is comanded & required together with all interest