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(78) Cæcilius &c the ninth day of January in the 43.th yeare of his Lopps Dominion &c Annoq Dom 1674 To the Sheriff of Talbott County Sendeth Greeting Whereas it appeares in the Records in the Secretaryes Office remaineing in the said Province of Maryland that John Norwood late of the said Province Gent the 21.th day of November 1663 had surveyed for him one thousand Acres of land lyeing in his said County On the north side of Choptancke River Beginning at a marked white Oake being the Southermost bound tree of the Land of Jerome White Esq & runing from the said Oake for bredth Southwest three hundred perches to a point of Marsh at the mouth of the northermost branch of the River bounded on the West by the Said branch the lenght of five hundred perches northwest on the north by a line drawne north east from the end of the northwest line for bredth three hundred perches on the east by a line drawne southeast from the end of the northeast line to the land of the said Whites one hundred perches and by Whites land to the first marked Oake on the South by the River on the west by the north branch And whereas Wee are informed that the said parcell of land by severall wayes and meanes is sithence become forfeited to Us and that one Edward Roe of his County holds possession thereof without any right or title to entitle him thereunto Wee Comand the said Sheriff that by lawfull men of his Bailiwicks he make Knowne to the said Edward Roe that he be and appeare before Us in Our Court of Chancery the ninth day of February next wheresoever it shall then be to shew cause if any he have why the said parcell of land ought not to be escheated unto Us and the said Edward Roe be amoved from the possession thereof & hereof he is not to faile and that he make knowne to our justices in what manner he execute this writ Att which said ninth day of February in the yeare aforesaid Came the said Edward Roe by Robert Carvile his Attorny and Saith that the said parcell of Land ought not to be escheated unto the said Lord Proprietary nor the said Edward be amoved from his possession thereof because he saith that he purchased the same of John Edmondson of Talbot County Merchant who upon the Conditions of plantations obtained patent for the same under the Great Seale of this province beareing date the eighth of August 1670 as appeares upon Record and the said Edward further saith that the said John Norwood in the said writ of scire facias named never legally Surveyed the said land nor ever made good any rights nor never had any Conditionall or Other warrant for the same whereby the said Land being out of his Lopps Mannour and free from any reserve it was lawfull for the said John Edmondson to survey and patent the same according to Conditions of Plantation And the Said Edward Roe further saith that the said Lord Proprietary him from the possession of the said Land will not amove for the reasons aforesaid because he saith That the said Lord Proprietary by his Letters under his hand and seale beareing date the eighth day of August 1674 and to his Deare Sonn Charles Calvert his Leiutennt of Maryland directed doth declare that if the first warrant to Norwood cannot be made good and that Rent for the said Land have been duly paid then that the said John Edmondson or his assignes should quietly enjoy the said land And this he is ready to averre and thereupon demands the judgment of this Court if the said parcell of land ought to be escheated unto the said Lord Proprietary or the said Edward Roe be amoved from his possession thereof This cause continued untill next Court Ro Carvile February 15.th 1674 Ordered by the Court here that all buisnesse wherein Robert Carvile and Robert Ridgely are concerned in be continued untill next Court |
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