204       Provincial Court Proceedings, 1682.

      Liber W. C. Land And in wch surplusage (then unknowne to ye said Gooderick)
                  or Lands they had Cleared &c and made a Plantacon & Lynes since
                  had obtained his Lopps Speciall warrt 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
                  of his land at the End of the number of perches mentioned in the
                  Pattent of the said Gooderick & by that meanes would take in all
                  the said surplusage & soe Consequently the said Lynes Plantation
                  soe that to finde out the said Antient bounds of the said Goodericks
                  land was ye Dispute in Question And the Court then finding it
                  necessary that the said six hundred Acres of Goodericks should be
                  Layd out according to the Knowne antient bounds thereof by some
                  skilfull person according to the Direction of a Jury of the neigh
                  bourhood & according to the Testimony of the witnesses that are
                  best Knowing thereof The Court did then ordr that Rando Brandt
                  gentt. Deputy surveyor of Charles County should be and was thereby
                  especially appointed Impowered and comanded to Lay out and Re-
                  survey the aforesaid parcell of Land of the aforesaid George Good-
                  crick Containing six hundred Acres more or Lesse part whereof
                  was sold to ye said Philip Lynes, In the presence of the sheriffe of
                  the said County, wch said sheriffe was thereby impowered and
                  comanded to sumon and Impannell a Jury of Twelve good and Law-
          p. 559  full men of the Neighbourhood to the said Land, Not being of
                  Affinity or consanguinity to any of the said partyes or any way con
                  cerned about the Tithe to the said Lands or any part thereof, to goe
                  upon the said lands, and to sumon and Examine witnesses upon
                  oath that the true antient bounds of the said George Goodericks
                  land might the better be found out and Discovered According as
                  they were first marked surveyed and layd out for the said George
                  Gooderick by the said Robert Clarke, and to see where the Line
                  of the said Michael Ashford Did or doth beginn And the said
                  Rando Brandt was thereby ordered to runn the lines according to
                  the lines and Courses of the Pattent, and also according to ye Imagi
                  nary Lines And according to the Directions of the Jury aforesaid
                  and the oathes of the Evidences Soc as the truth of the matter touch
                  ing the sd Originall bounds of the said Goodericks land might the
                  better be found out & discovered And to returne a Certificate of his
                  proceedings therein and a faire plott of the Land in Question aswell
                  touching the said Land according to the Lines of the Pattent as of
                  the Survey taken by the Directions of the Jury & witnesses as afore
                  said in Case they happen to differ, to the then next Provinciall Court
                  to be held at the Citty of st Maryes the Eight and Twentyeth day of
                  ffebruary then next, On wch said Eight and twentyeth Day of
                  ffebruary aforesaid Came the said partyes by their Attorneys & the
                  said Rando Brandt came also and certifyed to the said court that in
                  Obedience thereunto he the said Rando Brandt in the presence of