350   Chancery Court Proceedings, 1670.




        Liber C D  form afores.d doing therein what to Justice appertaineth according
               to the Laws orders and Reasonable Customs of this our Province
        (fol. 546) Saving to us the Amerciaments and other things thereof to us
               belonging, And therefore We Command the Sheriff of the Said
               County By virtue of these presents that at the days and places afore
               said which you or any Such four or more of you as aforesaid Shall
               make to him to Give his attendance on you, and if need Require
               to Cause to Come before you or any Such four or more of you as
               aforesaid Such and So many Good and Lawfull men of your County
               by whom the truth in the premisses may the better be known and
               Enquired of, And Lastly We have appointed William Hemsley
               Clerke and keeper of the Records & proceedings in this your County
               Court And therefore you Shall Cause to be brought before you at
               the Said days and place the Writts precepts process and Indictments
               to your Court and Jurisdiction belonging that the Same may be
               Inspected and by a due Course determined Given at our City of S.t
               maries the 17.th day of December in the year of our Dominion
               over the Said Province of maryland Annoq Domini 1670 Wittness
               our Dear Son Charles Calvert Esq our Lieu.t & Chiefe Governo.r
               of our Said Province of maryland

               December the 17.th 1670
                 Dedimus Potestatem then issued to Empower Richard Woolman
               and William Coursey Gent to administer the Oath to the aboves.d
               Com.rs Teste Eodem die
               Sp.a agt Ja8 Neale to Rejoyn & Joyn in Com.sion  Jn° Bailey
                 Caecilius &c T0 James Ncalc Greeting We Coiijaiid you that all
               Excuses put aside you be & personally appear before our Justices of
               our high Court of Chancery on the fourteenth day of ffebruary
               next wheresoever it Shall then be to Rejoyn and Joyn in Comission
               with John Bailey plt ag.t you defend.t and further do and Receive
               what our Said Justices Shall Consider of in this behalf and thereof
               fail not on the pain of one hundred pounds Sterling and have you
               there this writt Wittness our Self at S.t maries the 28th of Decemb.r
               1670 in the 39.th year of our Dominion over our Said Province

               A writt of Diem Clausit Extremum f or Lewis Estate
                 Caecilius &C To our Trusty and Welbeloved Henry Adams Gentl
               Thomas Mathews Gent in the County of Charles County Greeting
               We Comand you that by the Oath of Twelve Good and Lawfull men
               of yo.r Said County of Charles County by whom the truth of the
               matter may better be known that you diligently Enquire what Lands
               & Tenem.ts Lt William Lewis held of us in his Demeasne as of ffee
               at the time of his Death of what manno.r & by what Services and how
            p. 420 much these Lands and Tenements are of value by the year in all
         (fol. 546) issues and at what time the Said Lieutenant William Lewis dyed