228       Provincial Court Proceedings, 1682.

  Liber W. C.     a line drawne South from the end of the said west line for the
                 length of six hundred & fifty perches to a marked oake, With a line
                 drawne east from the End of the South line for the length of
                 Two hundred and fifty perches to a marked Oake Standing by
                 Brooke Creeke, With a line drawne north from the end of the
                 East line for the length of six hundred and fifty perches to the
                 first bounded tree Standing on the side of st Charles his branch
                 aforesaid & being now in Dispute betweene the said Walter smith
                 and William Groome This Court doe finde it absolutely necessary
                 that the said One thousand Acres of land called Brooke Ridge be
                 surveyed and layd out by some skilfull person according to the
                 Originall Survey thereof by the Direccon of the Neighbourhood
                 that are most Knowing in the antient Meets and bounds of the
                 same And a faire plott and Certificate thereof be Returned to the
                 next Provinciall Court soe that upon pusall and veiwing thereof
                 and hearing of what can be sayd on both sides the Court may doe
                 therein what to Justice shall appertaine Itt is therefore by the Court
                 this day ordered that the Surveyor generll or his Deputy for Calvert
                 County be and is hereby especially appointed Impowered & comanded
                 to lay out the aforesaid One thousand Acres of land according to
                 the antient Meets & bounds thereof in the prsence of John Craycroft
                 of Calvert aforesaid gentl Coroner Who is hereby Impowered and
                 comanded to Sumon and Impannell a Jury of Twelve good Law full
                 and 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, & the said surveyr genert or his
                 Deputy is to runn the lines according to the evidence then to be
                 given & the direction of the Jury & to returne a Certificate of his
                 proceedings herein & a faire plott of the same One thousand Acres
                 of land to the next Provinciall Court to be held at the Citty of
                 St Maryes the fourth day of October next Attested as well under
                 the hand and seale of the said surveyr as of the said Coronr and
                 Jurors aforesaid that his Lopps Justices being fully informed of
                 the truth of the prmisses may doe therein as to Justice shall appertaine
          p. 581 Att wch said fourth day of October Came the said partyes by their
                 Attorneys aforesaid And the said John Craycroft The Coronr of
                 Calvert County aforesaid made returne to the Court here of the
                 order of Survey aforesaid of the Land aforesaid Called Brooke
                 Ridge by an Inquisition thereunto annexed under the hands and
                 seales of him the said John Craycroft and of the Jurors by him
                 for that purpose sumoned Impannelled and sworne wch Inquisition
                 ffolloweth in these words (Viz)
                  Wee Thomas Gant John Chittam, John Smith Thomas Ellis,
                 William Jones Samuel Magrowder, James Nuthall, William Grant,
                 Thomas Holliday, John Carpenter, John Browne & Thomas Staf
                 ford a Jury Sumoned and Sworne by John Craycroft gentt Coroner