at our Receipt at our City of St. Mary’s, at the two most usual Feasts in the year the feast of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and St. Michael the Arch Angel, by even and equal Portions, the Rent of two Shillings Sterling, in Silver or Gold; and for a Fine upon every Alienation upon the said Land, or any Part or Parcel thereof. one whole Year’s Rent, in Silver or Gold, or the full Value thereof, in such Commodities as we and our Heirs, or such Officer or Officers as shall be appointed by Us and our Heirs, from Time to Time, to collect and receive the same, shall accept in Discharge thereof, at the Choice of Us and our Heirs, or such Officer or Officers aforesaid: PROVIDED, That if the said Sum for a Fine for Alienation, shall not be paid unto Us and our Heirs, or such Officer or Officers aforesaid, before such Alienation, and the said Alienation entered upon Record, either in the Provincial Court, or County Court, where the same Parcel of Land lieth, within one Month next after such Alienation; then the said Alienation shall be void and of no Effect.
GIVEN under our Great Seal of our said Province
of Maryland, this Eleventh Day of December, Anno Domini
Seventeen hundred and fifty-nine.
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HORO. SHARPE
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WITNESS our trusty and well-belowed HORATIO
SHARPE, Esq; Lieutenant-General and Chief Governor of our.
said Province of Maryland, and Chancellor
and Keeper of the Great Seal thereof.
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(Wax impression of Great Seal attached to parchment.).
Endorsed as follows:
Examd. with Cert.
Somerset County.
Mr. Thomas Hearne his Pat. 50 Acres.
Recorded in Liber B C and G. S. No. 14 (?), folio 593.
St. Kitts.
(Indistinct line follows, not decipherable.)
Maryland. ss. FREDERICK, Absolute Lord and Proprietary of the Provinces of Maryland and Avalon, Lord Baron of Baltimore, &c. To all Persons to whom these Presents shall come, Greeting in our Lord GOD Everlasting.
KNOW YE, That WHEREAS Thomas Hearne,
of Somerset County, by his humble Petition to Our Agents for Management
of
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