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591) 601 thereunto belonging scituate lyeing and being in the hundred and wherein one John Addison gent lately dwell & the same pocession and seizin afsd continued and kept untill one Henry Lawrence of the same hundred Taylor & other evil docry unknowne upon the tenth day of December in the yeare of our Lord 1689 w.th force & armes that is to say with Swords & staves into the Messuage plantation & houses and Lands afsd entred & then & there her the sd Elizabeth Connant thereof disseized & her from the same did expell with strong hand and the sd Elizabeth soe disseized & Expelled from the sd Messuage plantation houseing and Lands afsd from the sd tenth day of December afsd to the day of the takeing the Inquisition with like force & armed powers have kept out & hitherto doe keepe out to the great disturbance of the peace of our Lord & Lady the King & Queene and against the forme of the statute made in a parliament held in the Eight yeare of the Reign of King Henry the sixth in that case made and provided Whereas time of them nor any other whose Estate they or any of them have or hath have had hath any right or title in or to the sd Messuage plantation houseing or Lands or any part thereof within three yeares next before their Entry afsd nor any other tyme before to the Knowledge of the Jurors afsd Wee the Juro.rs doe find Henry Lawrence not guilty of the above Indictement Witness W.m Husband foreman William & Mary by the grace of God of England Scotland France & Ireland King & Queene Defend.rs of the Faith &c To all to whom these p.rsents shall come Greeting Whereas William Dent and Joseph Bullet of Charles County in our Province of Maryland Gent in pursuance and according to the directions of a certaine Act of Assembly made at a Generall Assembly begun & held for our said Province at our Citty of S.t Maryes the day of last past intituled An Act for the encouragement of such as will undertake to built Water Mills have procured out of our ^high^ Court of Chancery in Maryland afsd a writ of ad quod Damnum bearing date the second Day of September in the 4.th yeare of our Reign and now last past directed to our sherriffe of Charles County afsd whereby wee did comand him that by the oathes of twelve honest & Lawfull men of his County by whom the truth of the Matter might be better knowne he should dilligently enquire if it were to the damage of us or others if Wee should grant to the sd W.m Dent and Joseph Bullet twenty acres of Land Lying at Mattawoman on a Runn therein the sd County comonly called Dannells Runn (viz.t) tenn acres on the one side of the Runn & tenn acres on the other side of the sd Runn of water togeather with Liberty to take fell cutt downe and carry away either by Land or Watter any wood or timber fitt for building a Mill other then timber fitt to split into clap boards upon any of the Lands adjoining to the sd twenty Acres of Land lying on each side the Runn of water att Mattawoman afsd And if it be to the damage and prejudice of us or others then to what damage and what prejudice of others and of whom and in what manner & how and of whom & of what mannor the afsd twenty acres are houlden & by what service & in what manner & how & of whatt vallue they are by the yeare according to the true Vallue thereof Now before any further improvement made of the said twenty acres and who are the sd present pocesso.rs and Who and how many are the messees between the present pocesso.rs and us of the sd twenty acres of Land and what Lands and Tenements remaine to the p.rsent pocessors over the sd twenty acres and the Land |
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