92 Court and Testamentary Business, 1649 50.

         Liber B.  St Maries within our Said Province the 20th day of June

              Instant upon the mocon of Walter Beane and Walter Pakes

              who by Order of the 29th of December 1648 had been admitted

              to the Administracon of the Estate of William Smithfield

              deceased and upon produceing their accounts upon Oath for-

              merly taken whereby it appeared that they had fully admin-

              istred, and nothing being Objected to the Contrary albeit

              publick proclamacon was then made in open Court It was then

              Ordered that the Said Walter Beane and Walter Pakes Should

              have their Quiet est upon Consideracon whereof these are to

          p.  94 will and require you and every of you that from (henceforth)

              forward you desist and forbear to Sue implead molest or prose-

              cute the Said Walter Beane or Walter Pakes for or Concerning

              the Said Estate whereof they are Administrators as afd or any

              part thereof as you will answer the Contrary And We doe

              hereby require our Lieutenant Chief Governor & Chancellor

              or keeper of our Great Seal of our Said Province for the time

              being and all and every our Councellors Commanders and

              Comrs and all other Justices Judges and Magistrates within our

              Sd Province by us appointed and authorised, and to be from

              time to time by us or our heirs hereafter appointed and author-

              ised for matters of Judicature, that they and every of them be

              carefull from time to rime as occasion Shall require to See our

              will & pleasure herein before declared to be duly observed and

              performed according to Justice, And that in Case the Said

              Walter Beane and Walter Pakes or either of them Shall happen

              at any time hereafter to be Sued impleaded or prosecuted in

              any of our Courts of Justice in our Said Province Contrary to

              our true intent and meaning herein before Signified that they

              and every of them then present in Court Shall admitt and

              allow of this Quietus est or the Record thereof for a Lawfull

              and Sufficit plea in barr to all and every Such Suit Action or

              demand. In Wittness whereof We have caused our Secretary

              of our Said Province of Maryland to publish the Same under

              our Great Seal of our Sd Province Given at St Maries this 21th

              day of June anno Dni 1651

                            Wittness our Sd Secret    Tho: Hatton

               [A Quiet est to Jos: Edlowe Admr of Robt Wisemans Estate]

               Cecilius &c To all the Inhabitants &c Whereas it appears

              by the account upon Oath upon Record of Joseph Edlowe

              Admr of Robert Wiseman deceased that he the Said Admin-

              istrator hath fully administred upon Consideracon whereof and

              of an Order of Court made herein this present day, These are

              to will and require you and every of you &c put in Quiet est

              Beane & Pakes vit ante recitat Mutatis Mutandis usq ad,

              Given at St Maries this 20th day of October anno Dni 1651

              Wittness our Sd Secretary        Tho Hatton