110        Provincial Court Proceedings, 1681.

 Liber W. C.     presence of the Sheriffe of the said County, wch said sheriffe is
                 hereby also Impowered and comanded to Sumon and Impannell a
                 Jury of Twelve good and Lawfull men of the Neighbourhood to
                 goe upon the said Land, and to sumon and Examine witnesses upon
                 oath if occasion bee that the truth of the matter and the true bounds
                 of the said One hundred and thirty Acres of land may be fully Dis
                 covered, and the said Richard Peacock is hereby Ordered to runn
                 the Lines according to the Lines and Courtes menconed in the Pat-
                 tent for the said Land called Maron & also the imaginary Lines and
                 to Runn out the true Lines of the said Creeke called Champes Creeke,
                 and to returne a Certificate of his Proceedings herein and a faire plott
                 of the land in Question and the Creeke aforesaid to the next Pro
                 vinciall Court to be held att the City of St Maryes the Eight and
                 Twentyeth Day of ffebruary next attested aswell under the hand and
                 Seaie of the said surveyor as of the sheriffe and Jurors aforesaid
                 That Soe his Lopps Justices being fully informed of the truth of the
                 premisses may doe therein as to Justice Shall appertaine,

                 Ralph Shaw
                    agt   in Ejectmt    November the 19th 1681
                 Philip Lynes
                          Came Ralph Shawe by Thomas Burford his Attorney
                 and Philip Lynes by Robert Carvile his Attorney, Itt is alleadged
                 that the plt as Lessee of Michael Ashford and Rachell his wife
                 comenced their accon of Ejectment against the Defendt as Casuall
                 Ejector and the said Philip Lynes haveing named himself defendant
                 to Defend his Tytle to a parcell of land lately by him the Lynes
                 purchased of and from one George Gooderick being part of a greater
                 Tract of land granted to the said George Gooderick containing six
                 hundred Acres of land Lyeing next adjoyning to a parcell of land
                 belonging to the said Michael Ash ford and Rachell his wife in
                 Right of the said Rachell, and the said Ashfords Land being said to
         p. 492  bee bounded on the Line of the said George Goodericks land (that
                 is to say) where the old bounds of the said George Goodericks land
                 ends, there the Land of the said Michael Ashfords is to beginn, And
                 the Difference in question being about the true antient bounds of the
                 said Goodericks land and it being insisted on by the Attorney for
                 the said Lynes that according to the old Survey made by W Clarke
                 the then Surveyor generall and the Quantity or Number of perches
                 mentioned in the Pattent the Same would not reach to the old bounds
                 of the said Goodericks land, but there is upon a Resurvey thereof a sur
                 plussage of land within the said old bounds of the said Goodericks
                 land, and in wch Surplussage then unknowne to the said Gooderick
                 on Lands they had cleered Tilled and made a Piantacon, and Lynes
                 since had obtained his Lopps Speciall warrant of resurvey to take up
                 the said surplusage, But the said Originall bound trees being fallen
                 the said Michael Ashford would Notwithstanding beginn the bounds