194   Chancery Court Proceedings. 1676.





         Liber C D Com.rs as the Jurors af.d have hereunto Set their hands & Seals the
               day and year abovesaid       Ro: Carvile
                                            Walter Hall
               W.mAsboston    Hen: Rider Joseph Hackney
               W.m   Thomas   Tho: PotterJn.° Stevens
               Tho:   Doxey   Tho: KeytingRich.d Chillman
               Richd Atwood   Elias BeechW.m Newport
                                 All Sealed

                 This Indenture made this 22.th day of march in the first year of the
               Dominion of Charles absolute Lord & Prop.ry of the Province of
               maryland Lord Baron of Baltemore &ca and in the year of our
               Lord 1675 Wittnesseth that By Virtue of a writt in the nature of
               mandamus unto Thomas Brooke & Roger Brooke of Calvert County
               Gent directed bearing date the 26.th of ffebruary in the 44.th year of
               the Dominion of Caecilius &c Annoq Dom 1675 the Said Thomas
               Brooke & Roger Brooke were Commanded Authorized & impowered
               by the Oaths of Twelve Good & Law full men of Calvert County
               by whom the truth of the matter may the better be known & En
               quired of, that diligently that Enquire what Lands & Tenem.ts
               Robert Turner late of Kent County deceased dyed Seized of at the
               time of his Death as of ffee in the County of Calvert of what manno.r
               & under what Rents and Services how much those Rents & Services
               are of value by the year in all issues & at what time the Said Robert
        (fol. 194) Turner dyed & who is his next heir & of what age the heir is &
               who those Lands & Tenem.ts from the time of the Death of the
               Said Robert Turner hath or doth Occupy & the issues & profits
               hath or doth Receive & by what Title & how & in what mannor &
               who hath paid the Rent of the Same And the Said Thomas & Roger
               Brooke by the Oaths of George Lingan Mordecay Hunton Tho:
               Robinson Henry Cole, Bernard Johnson, W.m Standley ffrancis
               Dorrington, Jn.° Turner, John Winall, Henry Mitchell Ja.s Gardner
               & W.m Kent upon the day and year above written at Calverton in

           p. 160 Calvt County in the Said Province of maryland upon their Oaths
         (fol. 194) did Enquire of the premisses And after Serious Consideration
               thereof had do Say as followeth That the Said Rob.t Turner dyed
               Intestate & without any heir about the 20.th of ffeb.ry last past And
               that at the time of his Death he was possessed of one pcell of Land
               Lying Scituate & being in the ifreshes of Putuxent River in Calvert
               County the s.d one Tract or parcell of Land Cont.a five hundred acres
               Called by the name of Turners pasture & holden of his Ldp & his
               heirs in free & Common Soccage by fealty only f or all Services
               under the yearly Rent of Ten Shillings Sterl p annum And that
               Henry Trulock Ever Since ye Death of the Said Robert hath pos
               sessed the Said Land & taken the issues & profits thereof, but by