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Chancery Court, Chancery Record, 1671-1712
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(56)                                               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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