596 MARYLAND COURT OF APPEALS

Nor was the said Mann^r Surveyed Nor the Meets and bounds thereof reduced
to any Certainty that Appears to Us of the Jury Untill the 24^th Day of April
Anno Dom: 1667.

We find that Mathew Hill in the proceedings Mentioned was Neither
Gardian to the Said Elianor nor a Person Learned in the Law nor a Prac-
tioner in the Court of Chancery. We find that the Grant of the Said Land
to the said Walter Bayne was Enrolled amongst the Land Records of the
province of Maryland And that the Enrollment thereof is not Yet Cancelled
or Altered unless the Marginal Entry afores^d [792] Be a Cancellation of the
said Enrollment We find that Authentick Copys from the Record of Such
Grants have always Been Deemed adjudged and taken to be as good and Con-
clusive Evidence in Law as the Originall Grants Under the Proper Seale and
in Due form. We find that the Usual manner of rendering Entring Record-
ing and Enrolling Judgments and Decrees in the Severall Courts of Law and
Equity in Maryland and Executing Such Judgments and Decrees have Al-
ways been and Still are According to the Laws of England and the Useage and
practice of the Courts of Law and Equity in Westminster. We find that it
hath been the Constant Custom when Land have been laid out within the
bounds of Lands formerly Surveyed for the Grantees voluntarily to surren-
der their Grants in order to obtain new Warrants for the Same Quantities of
Land Elswhere which Grants Upon Such Surrender have been Cancelled in

the Provinciall Court and Entries Made in the Margins of the Records of the

Enrollment of Such Grants at the Charge and Instance of the Grantees in the
Same Manner as the Entry in the Margin of the Enrollment of the Said
Baynes Grant and that the Usual manner of Entring the Vacation of Such
Pattents in the Land office is by Making Marginall Notes in the Books where
Such Pattents are recorded. We find that the said Eianor the Devisee in the
Year 1684 she the Said Elianor being then of the Age of Seventeen Years
intermarried with one John Stone Deced, that she the said Elianor was Co-
vert of the Said John by the Space of Sixteen Years and that then the Said
John Died To Witt in the Year of our Lord 1697 That the said Elianor Sur-
vived the said John And About Eighteen Months After his Death Interrmar-
ried W^th one Hugh Tears died about a month after his marriage with the said
Elianor That the Said Elianor after the Death of the said Hugh Tears Viz^t:
the 22^d Day of June 1700 Intermarried with Jn^o Beale the Defend^t by whom
she had issue Rich^d Beal and John Beale now living. We find that the said
Jn^o Beale and Elianor his wife in the Year Seventeen Hund^d and four Com-
menced their Action of Trespass and Ejectment in the Provinciall Court for
the Recovery of the said Land wherein it was So far proceeded that a virdict
was found by the jury but no Judgment Rendered thereon that Appears to
Us. We find that it was Usual and Customary to require Surveyors to Men-
tion in their returns or Certificates of Surveys the names of the Manners or
honours of which Lands should be held And that the Surveyors have been