244      Provincial Court Proceedings, 1677/8.

             Liber N N for forbearance & all other his necessary charges in & about the
                    same such as the Court shall think fitt to allow of, In testimony
                    whereof I the said Sheriffe & the Jurors aforenamed to this Inqui
                    sicon haue interchangably sett our hands & seales the day place &
                    yeare first above written,
                    Henry Darnall Sher           Wm Howse Wm W K Keede
                    Wm Turner     Wm Howse       Tho: T Tinsly
                    Jno EB Biggs  Andr A D Dickeson  Tho: Edwards
                    Daniel Goldson               Jno H Leiche  Joseph Tilley
                    Sam' Goosey   Jno King
                                  All sealed—
                     On the backside of the aforegoing Inquisicon was thus written vizt
                    Memorandum that quiet & peaceable possession of the within men-
                    coned land Coxcomb was giuen & deliuered by Henry Darnall within
                    named to Joseph Baker the Attorney of Capt Roger Baker within
                    named by vertue of a writt from the Lord ProprY to him the said
                    Henry Darnall directed & according to the forme of the Statute in
                    that case made & provided To be held to him the said Roger Baker
                    or his assignes according to the forme & effect of the within written
                    Inquisicon, possession as before giuen this 28th day of Novembr 1677.
                                                 Henry Darnall Sher
                    Wittnes Wm Turner Andr HD Dickeson
                     Which being read & heard Afterwards to witt the Eleventh day
                    of April in the third yeare of the Dominion of Charles Lord Balte
                    more &c Annoq Doni 1678 itt is granted by the Court here, that
                p. 492 the said Roger Baker hold the said tract of land called Coxcomb con
                    taining two hundred acres of his ffreehold to him & his assignes
                    dureing the term of sixty yeares fully to be compleat & ended.


                     To the Honble Governor & Councell of the Province of Maryland
                    Sheweth The peticon of John Browne of Salem in New England
                    That whereas there was a Condicon of Copartnershipp with account
                    depending between me & my Sonn James Browne, the which account
                    was delivered to me by my Sonn not long before his death, & therein
                    made due upon Copartnership forty foure thousand eight hundred
                    fifty seven pounds of tobacco & two thousand eight hundred sixty
                    three pounds of dry hide And also delivered ashoare in ifarley
                    Creek five hogsheads & six barrels of Sugar whereof (as I am in
                    formed) three hogshcads were in the store when the Estate was
                    seized by yor Officer, for all of which Goods as before expresst I doe
                    intreat yor Honors to order me satisfaction as being but just and
                    equitable, which shall be acknowledged with thankfullnes by your
                    Peticonr And now may itt please yor Honors give me leave a little
                    further to add, that haveing since the death of my Sonn James
                    found proceedings in relation thereunto very hard, whereby his wife