156 SALMONS v CLAGETT —3 BLAND

bj it, did not debar the plaintiff iiom his title to that answei which
the bill lequued Roche v. Morgell, 2 Scho & Lefr. 725. Recol

thereby enabled to accept a giant and release of the revision and inherit-
ance thereof to him and his heirs and assigns forever. Which deed of lease
was signed sealed and delivered by the parties in presence of Samuel
Howard and Thomas Newlands bears endorsed a receipt of the consideia-
tion money witness Samuel Howaid, with a certificate bearing date the
twelfth of November seventeen hundred and fifty five, by Robert Adair
and John Hall Justice of the Peace, of the parties having regularly ac-
knowledged the said lease and instrument of writing to be then act and deed
and is with said certificate of acknowledgment regularly lecorded as the
said certificate thereof endorsed signed by the clerk also bears that upon
the sixteenth day of June, A D seventeen bundled and fifty five the said
David Bissett, deceased and Ann his wife the said complainant by their
deed of release for the consideration of five hundred pounds sterling money
acknowledged in the said deed of release to be paid them, did grant bargain
sell alien lelease enfeoff and confirm unto the said John Matthews in his
own actual possession then being by virtue of the above lease and also by
virtue of the statute for transferring uses into possession, all the above men-
tion tracts or parcels of land therein and above particularly recited and the
reversion and leversions, remainder and remainders rents, issues and profits
of the premises and of every part and parcel thereof and all the estate
right, title use, trust, property, claim and demand whatever of them the
said David Bissett deceased and Ann his wife, the said complainant or
either of them of in and to the piemises aforesaid or any part or parcel
thereof To base and to hold the piemises unto the said John Matthews and
his heirs and assigns to the use and behoof of him the said John Matthews
and his heirs and assigns forever which deed of lelease is signed sealed
and delivered by the said parties date afoiesaid in presence of William
Ddllam and Acquila Nelson, beais a leceipt of the consideration money
endorsed of the same date witness said William Dallam and a ceitificate
by Col John Hall one of the right Honorable the Lord Proprietaries Jus
tices of the Provincial Court of the parties' acknowledgment of the said in
strument of writing as their act and deed, and of the said Ann Bissett's
private examination in the terms of the Act of Assembly, in that case made
and provided in these words Maryland to wit on the seventeenth day of
June Anno Christ seventeen hundred and fifty five came before me John
Hall one of his Lordships the right Honorable the Lord Proprietary s Jus
faces of the Provincial Court the within David Bissett and Ann his wife
and severally acknowledged the within writing to be their act and deed,
and the lands and premises within mentioned with their appurtenances to
be the right and estate of the within named John Matthews his heirs and
assigns forever, according to the true intent and meaning of the same writ
ing and the said Ann being by me examined privatelv and out of the hear-
ing of her said husband did privately and out of his hearing declare that she
made the above acknowledgment willingly and freely and without being in-
duced thereto by fear or threats of or ill usage of her husband or fear of
his displeasure signed John Hall That the said deed of release bears a re-
ceipt of the alienation fine, bearing date the seventh day of August, A D
seventeen hundred and fifty five, exceeding by twentv days the alienation
fine is appointed to be paid under the penalty of the alienations being void
by the condition of the original grant by the Lord Proprietary inserted in
every patent, (1674 ch 2, s 7,) and the above certificate of the acknowledg-