136 Provincial Court Proceedings, 1679/80.

Liber W. C. Thomas Lomax agt Gerrard Slye

Att a Provinciall Court held att st Maryes the Eighteenth day of ffebruary in the ffifth yeare of the Dominion of the Rtt Honoble Charles Lord Baltemore &c Annoq Dominj 1679. By his Lopps

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Justices thereunto assigned Came Thomas Lomax by Robert Carvile his Attorney And James Green by Christopher Rousby his Attorney, but because itt appeareth to the Court here that this accon of Ejectment is comenced by the said Thomas as Lessee to Jno Coode and Susanna his wife late wife of Robert Slye decd, and mother and Guardian of Elizabeth Slye and ffranees Slye the daughters of the said Robert Slye in right of the said Elizabeth and ffranees against James Green casuall Ejector, and the said Gerrard Slye being named Deft instead of the casuall Ejector to trye the title to ffive hundred acres of land called Rich neck lyeing in st Maryes County betweene Mattapany and Bushwood now in the tenure and posession of the said Gerrard Slye or his assignes, And the Court ffinding it necessary that the due lines & bounds of Llic :ciiJ pciitcll uf Land bcc Surveyed and laid out by some skilfull person according to the originall survey thereof and that a ffaire plott and Certificate thereof bee returned to the next provinciall Court Itt is this day Ordered that John Manley gentl bee and is hereby especially appointed impowered and comanded to lay out the afore- said parcell of Land according to the ancient meets and bounds thereof, In the prsence of the sheriffe of st Maryes County aforesaid, Who is hereby comanded and impowered to sumon & impannell a Jury of twelve good Lawfull and honest men of the neighbourhood to goe upon the said land And to sumon and Examine Witnesses upon oath that the truth of the matter may bee ffully discovered, And the said John Manley is hereby ordered to Runn the Lines according to the Evidence then to bee given and the direccons of the Jury, and to returne a Certifficate of his proceedings herein & a faire plott of the Land in question to the next Provinciall Court to bee held att st Maryes the Eleaventh day of May. Attested as well under the hand and seale of the said John Manley as of the sheriffe and Jurors aforesaid, that his Lordspps Justices being ffully informed of the truth of the premisses, may doe therein as to Justice shall appertaine

Wm Sparkes" agt Philip Lines

Att a provinciall Court held att st Maryes Ejectmt the fourteenth day of ffebruary in the ffifth yeare of the Dominion of Charles Lord Baltemore &c Annoq Dominj One thousand

six hundred Seaventy nine Before his Lord^spps Justices thereunto
assigned and William Sparkes by Robert Ridgely his Attorney, and
PhilipLynes by Christopher Rousby his Attorney, and this Cause
standing at issue ready ffor tryall this present Court, But because