Thomas Petite died in the year 1650 or thereabouts and without heir, that the land was occupied by John Guy, who married the relict of the said Petite, about eleven years, and afterwards was occupied by Peter Carr, who also married the said relict, about ten or eleven years, and continued after her death to be held by the said Carr, by his lordship's special favour," &c.   CHAPTER X.   OF PROCLAMATION WARRANTS.       THIS kind of warrant is known by those who are conversant in land affairs to have taken its rise, and its name, from one or more proclamations issued under the proprietary government, by which persons who had made surveys comprehending vacant or escheat land, and who neglected to pay or compound therefor, and to take out their patents within a limited time, were subjected to the loss of all the rights derived from such surveys; the lands becoming by means of such omission liable to be taken by the first discoverer, under new warrants to be obtained for that purpose. The particular proclamation, however, on which those warrants were founded has hitherto been a matter of uncertainty as well as of frequent enquiry, and as the reciting or supplicatory part of them generally referred to " sundry proclamations," there was some reason to doubt whether the practice derived its origin from any one in particular. It has nevertheless been the most prevalent idea that those warrants were grounded on A PROCLAMATION not now to be found or ascertained. I have satisfied myself by an exact investigation how this matter really stands. The warrants in question, are in a collective sense, founded upon three successive proclamations, issued in the time of Charles lord Baltimore, the fourth proprietary, and remaining upon record in the land office; the first dated the 6th of November 1725, the second on the 13th August 1732, and the last (by the proprietary himself at Annapolis) on the 26th of June 1733. The earliest warrant on record containing in the body of it a direct reference to a proclamation as the ground of the thing aimed at, was granted to Benjamin Tasker, Esq. on the 4th of January 1730. This sets out with a full recital of the proclamation of November 6th, 1725 above mentioned: It is essentially a proclamation warrant, though not so called; for that denomination