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        St Marke the Evangelist now last past to the end & terme of three Liber N N
        yeares from thence next ensueing & fully to be compleat & ended
        By vertue of which Demise the said Wm Taylor into the tenemts
        aforesaid with the appurtennces entred & was thereof possessed
        And so thereof being possessed the said Wm Layton afterward to
        witt the same first day of May in the second yeare of the Dominion
        of Charles &c aforesaid into the tenements aforesaid with the ap
        purtences which the said Thomas Jones to the said Wm Taylor in
        forme aforesaid did Demise for the terme aforesaid which is not yet
        past did enter & him from his ifarme aforesaid did eject & other
        Enormities to him did doe to the great damage of him the said
        wm Taylor & agt the peace &c whereupon he saith he is the worse &
        hath damage to the Value of tenn pounds sterl & thereupon he bring
        eth his suite
          Unlesse the tenants in possession or they under whom they clayme
        doe the next Provinciall Court appeare to this Declaracon & make
        themselves defendts thereunto, & by rule of Court confesse the Lease
        entry & Ejectmt & insist only upon the title, the defendt in this
        Declaracon will confesse judgemt & possession will be delivered ac
        cordingly to the plaintiffe.

       To Andrew Whittington & Richard Chambers Tenants in possession
           of the prmisses within menconed & either of them

          Afterwards to witt the Eighth day of October in the second yeare
        of the Dominion of Charles Lord Baltemore &c Annoq3 Doni 1677.
        came the said Wm Taylor by Robert Ridgely his Attorney And the
        said Wm Layton by Robert Carvile his Attorney, but because itt ap
        peared to the Court here that the action of Ejectmt was comenced by
        the said Wm Taylor as Lesse to the said Thomas Jones agt Wm Layton
        the casuall Ejector, & the said And the said {sic] Andrew Whittington
        & Richard Chambers being named Defendts instead of the casuall
        Ejector to try the title to one Messuage of one thousand acres of
        land, in Somrsett County late in the tenure or occupacon of the said
        Tho: Jones, & the Court findeing itt necessary that the bounds of
        the said persons lands be Surveyed by a Skillfull person according
        to their respective Patents, & a faire plott and Certificate thereof be
        returned to the Court, itt is by the Court this day Ordered, that p. 600
        Mr ffrancis Jenckins Deputy Surveyr of the said County be espe
        cially appointed by this Court & is hereby appointed impowered &
        comanded to lay out the lands of the said parties according to their
        ancient meets & bounds runing the lines according to their Patents
        in the prsence of the Sheriffe of the said County, who is hereby
        comanded & impowered to Sumon & impannell a jury upon the said
        lands & examine Evidences upon Oath that the truth of the matter
        may be fully discovered And the said Surveyr is hereby ordered to