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is hereby Comanded and Impowered to sumon & Impannell a Jury of
Twelve good Lawfull & honest men of the Neighbourhood to goe
Upon the Said Land & to Sumon and Examine Witnesses Upon
oath that the truth of the matter may be fully Discovered, W^ch being
done the Juro" aforesaid are dilligently to Enquire by Whome the
Trespasse aforesaid is Comitted, and what Damage the plt on whome
the Trespasse aforesd (if any shall bee found to bee Comitted) hath
Sustained by occasion thereof, and of the ffellony Cutting downe
and Carrying away the Trees afores^d & to returne a Certifficate of
his proceedings herein and a ffaire plott of the pits Land to the Next
Provinciall Court to bee held att the Citty of S^t Maryes the ffifth
day of October next & Attested aswell under the hand & Seale of
the said Randolph Brand^t as of the Sheriffe and Juro" aforesaid
that his Lopps Justices being fully Informed of the Truth of the
p^rmisses may doe therein as to Justice shall appertaine & thereupon
day is Given unto both partyes untill Next Prov^ll Court
And Now here att this day to witt the thirtyeth Day of November
in the fifth Yeare of the Dominion of the Right hono^ble Charles
Lord Baltemore &c Annoq Domini 1680 Came the said partyes by
their Attorneys aforesaid, & the said Surveyo^r Made Returne of
the Inquisicon aforesaid w^ch ffollowes in these Words: Viz
An Inquisicon Indented taken in Charles County at Portobacco
Creeke the fifteenth day of September in the ffifth yeare of the Do-
minion of the Right hono^ble Charles absolute Lord and Prop^ry of the
Provinces of Maryland & Avalon Lord Baron of Baltemore &c. & in
the yeare of our Lord 1680 before M^r W™ Chandler Sheriffe of the
County aforesaid. By verture of an ord^r of a Provinciall Court held
at the Citty of S^t Maryes on y^e fourteenth day of May last past to
see Capt Rand^o Brandt Lay out a parcell of Land belonging to John

Liber W. C.

Lemarre Lyeing on the West side of Portobacco or S^t Thomas's
Creeke in Charles County aforesaid according to the antient meets
and bounds thereof, & Also by the oathes of Henry Hawkins Garret
Sinnet, John Godshall William Wells, John Clarke, Ralph Shaw
Robert Middleton, James Smallwood, Robert Thompson, Thomas
Coates James Littlepage, & Edmond Dennis to Enquire what Tres-
passe George Godfrey hath Comitted by ffailing Cutting Downe and
Carrying away Three Timber Trees of the Land of the aforesaid
John Lamarre W^ch Juro^rs aforesaid Upon their oathes doe say, That
in the p^rsence of the Sheriffe aforesaid they have Scene the afore-
said Capt Rand^o Brandt lay out the Land aforesaid according to
the antient Meetes & bounds thereof the place Where the begining
bound Tree Did formerly Stand being proved by the oathes of
Archibold Wahob & William Love, & also the second bounds being
proved by the oath of the Aforesaid Archibold Wahob. W^ch said
Survey of the parcell of Land aforesaid doth begin as ffolloweth.
Begining att a swampe where formerly an Ash did Stand that

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