October, anno 1647, was thus written, (viz.) This patent,
with all my right, title and interest, is assigned over to John
Bayley or his assigns, this seventeenth of March, 1653, by
me
" WALTER DEANE, administrator of John Nun.
" Testes,
" John Haman.
" This patent, with all my right, title and interest is
assigned over to Thomas Phillips, or his assigns, this 12th
of April 1655.
Signum
ELLINOR >< BAYLEY.
Testis,)Wm. Bretton and
)Walter Hall."
" This patent with all my right, title and interest is
assigned over to Luke Barker, or his assigns, this sixteenth of
February, 1657. his
THOMAS >< PHILLIPS,
mark.
Testis)Wm. Bretton
)Walter Hall.
" This patent, with all my right, title and interest is
assigned over to Thomas Phillips, or his assigns, this 8th of
January, 1658.
L. BARBER."
¾
The governor without respecting the assignment of Nun's
administrator to Bayley ¾that of Elinor Bayley
(apparently the widow of John) to Philips, or the subsequent
assignments between Philips and Barber, determines the land to
have become escheat by the original patentees dying
intesttate and without lawfull issue, and passes a grant to Bayley,
the petitioner."
LIBER, No. 12, fol. 394.
Under an assignment in a more ample form, than any of the
preceding but still endorsed on the patent are the following
entries.
" This patent was made over in court, April 1st, 1673, by
" Edward Parish to John Beck, and the assignment thereof
" was owned by him to be his act and deed.
Test me,
NL. HEATHOCOATE, CLK."
" Whereas the land within mentioned is escheatable, I
" hereby declare that no advantage shall be taken by me.
CH: BALTIMORE."
LIBER, No. 19, fol. 378.
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