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     cate & faire plott of both the said parcells of land to the next Pro-      Liber W. C.
     vinciall Court to be held at the Citty of St Maryes the Eight and
     Twentyeth day of ffebruary next Attested aswell under the hand
     and seale of the said Surveyor as of the sheriffe and Jurors afore
     said that Soe his Lopps Justices being fully informed of the truth
     of the premisses may doe therein as to Justice shall appertaine
       On wch said Eight and Twentyeth day of ffebruary in the yeare
     aforesaid Came the said partyes by their Attorneys aforesaid, and
     the said John Craycroft Coronr made returne to the Court here of
     the order of resurvey aforesaid by Two Inquisitions thereunto an-          p. 583
     nexed and Certificates and faire plotts of both the sayd parcells of
     Land Called Mount Calvert and Brooke Ridge The Tenor of wch
     Inquisitions and Certificates are as followeth Viz

 Calvert County ss:    February the 23th 168 1/2
       By vertue of an Order of the Provinciall Court bearing date
     the Sixteenth Day of November me soe Comanding I have Tm
     pannelled and duly sworne a Jury of Twelve good and Lawfull
     men of the Neighbourhood viz Ninian Beale Thomas Grinfeild,
     Thomas Gant, John Bowlen John Smith, John Chittam, Samuel
     Magroder, Robert Stanly, William Sellby, Thomas Ellis ffrancis
     Swinf en Lawrence Rowland, and together with the said Jury and
     Mr George Yate Surveyor did first see Resurveyed the Land called
     Mount Calvert and then the Land called Brooke Ridge According
     as in the Said Order is Comanded as appeareth aswell by the Certifi
     cates and Plotts of both the said Parcells of Land attested Aswell
     under the hands and seales of the said surveyor as of me the said
     Coroner and Jurors
                        John Craycroft Coroner (sealed)
     Mount Calvert surveyed
       Viz To the Honoble The Justices of the Provinciall Court
       By vertue of an Order of the Provincial Court bearing date the
     sixteenth day of November 1681 These are to certify that I George
     Yate with the Coroner of Calvert County and a Jury of the said
     County by the said Coroner Impannelled Have layd out all that
     parcell of Land Lyeing on the west side of Petuxent River called
     Mount Calvert wth the Allowance of tenn Perches in every hundred
     for the unevenesse of the Land as it was Judged Meet and Requi
     site by the Jury Begining att a bounded beech tree Standing in a
     point by the said River and runing west and by North Three hun
     dred and twenty perches to a bounded Oake, Then south & by west
     five thundred perches to a marked Oake, Then East and by South
     five hundred and foure perches to the said River, Then bounding
     on the said River to the first bounded tree Containing and now
     layd out for One thousand and three hundred and six Acres of
     land where as formerly it was Laid out for One thousand Acres,