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1674 this precept that he make Knowne to his Lopps said Court and the day aforesaid and that he have there thus written At which said day to wit the fourtenth day of April in the 42.th yeare of the Dominion of Cæcilius &c came the said Sheriff and made returne of the writt aforesaid and saith that by virtue of that writt he hath made Knowne to the within named Thomas Gerard that he be and appeare at the day and place within specified as the writt requires Wittnes Cap.t John Jardaine and Abraham Combes And the said Thomas Gerard likewise came and the said Thomas by Robert Carvile his Attorny prayed licence of speakeing hereunto untill the first day of the next Court and it is granted unto him the same day given to both partyes Lord Proprietary ag.t this cause Continued untill next Court John Nichols The Court adjourned untill the 12.th of May next Maryland ss Att a Court held for the Chancery and Provinciall Court begun On Tuesday the twelfth day of May in the 42.th yeare of the Dominion of Cæcilius & at the Citty of S.t Maries and there continued untill the sixtenth day of the same month Present His Excellency Charles Calvert Esq Cheife justice The Hon.ble Philip Calvert Esq Chancellour William Calvert Esq Principall Secretary Baker Brooke Esq The Lord Proprietary Compl Day being given to both parties untill this day to witt the ag.t twelfth day of May in the yeare aforesaid Att which said 12.th Thomas Gerard def.t day of May Came the said Thomas Gerard by Robert Carvile his Attorny and Saith That neither the said Letters Pattents of his said Lopp the Lord Proprietary of the said foure hundred Acres of land called the Meadowes in forme aforesaid made to the said Thomas Gerard Esq ought ^not^ to be revoked and and adnulled now the same into the hands of his said Lopp ought to be seized because he saith that at the time of the takeing Up of the said Land by the said Thomas Gerard Esq according to his Lopps Conditions of Plantation now at the time of the Certificates of survey nor granting of the said letters pattent nr a long time after there was not any record of any reserve made by his Lopp of any land whatsoever to be surveyed and laid out for his Lopps Use and to be called Choptico Mannour of which the said foure hundred acres of land in the scire facias is alleadged to be part nor was there at the time aforesaid any legall survey for the takeing Upp and laying Out for his said Lopps Use any Such land as Chopticoe Mannour in which is included the said foure hundred Acres as by the said scire facias is pretended nor are the said foure hundred acres of land called the meadowes any part or parcell of the said Mannour of Choptico according as the said Mannour at the time of the said Thomas Gerard Survey and Pattent granted was laid out and referred But the said foure hundred Acres of land was duly and according to his Lopps Conditions of Plantation taken up and pattented by the said Thomas Gerard Esq and by him by Indenture duly executed beareing date the ninth day of January 1671 for a good and valuable Consideration paid and secured to be paid unto him the said Thomas Gerard legally conveyed to and settled upon the def.t Thomas Gerard and he by virtue thereof as become seized in Fee of the premisses and ought to hold and enjoy the same according to |
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