Mannor by ye name of ye Mannor of Cookes Hope Together with Court Baron and all things thereunto Belonging by ye Law or Custome of England, as by ye sd Letters Pattents Relation thereunto had doth and may more at large appeare."

The following note upon manorial Tithingman in Maryland is thought by the Editor to be of sufficient interest to justify its reprint from Bozman, ii, 138, who quotes it from the manuscript Bill of 1638, folio 21. The motto relating to Tithingmen, printed upon the reverse of the bastard-title of this paper, was taken from Bacon's printed Laws of Maryland, which only gives the heading of the Bill. The following is an extract from the text: "The lord of every manor within this province, (after any manor shall be erected), shall yearly at the first court baron held after Michaelmas in any year nominate and appoint some inhabitant of the manor, (not being in the council), to be tithing-man of that manor, to have the same power as a tithing-man in England." Bozman adds, "The duties of a tithing-man in England were, at this time, nearly the same as those of a petty constable. They were usually chosen by the jury at the court-leet,— a criminal court appertaining to a manor."

NOTE ON THOMAS GERRARD,

LORD OF ST. CLEMENT'S MANOR.

Thomas Gerrard, Surgeon, was a brother-in-law of Marmaduke Snow, and came into the province about the year 1638. On the 29th of October, 1639, "Thomas Gerrard Gent. demandeth Land of the Lord Proprietary due him by conditions of Plantation for transporting himself with five able men servants in the years of our Lord 1638 and 1639." The five able men servants were John Longworth, Peter Hayward, Samuel Barrett, Thomas Knight and Robert Brassington. The following day (Oct. 30th) an order was issued to the Surveyor to lay out for Mr. Thomas Gerrard, 1000 acres of land including St. Clement's Island. The land was surveyed Nov. 2, and the Surveyor's report is as follows: "Set forth for Thomas Gerrard Gent. a neck of land lyeing over against St. Clements Island, bounding on the South with Potowmuck River, on the north east with a Creek running westward out of St. Clements Bay, Called St. Patrick's Creek, on the east with the said Clement's bay, on the northwest with a Creek running out Mattapanient bay called St. Catherines Creek on the west and south west with part of the said Bay and Potowmack River, the said neck containing in the whole nine hundred and fiftie acres or thereabouts, Likewise set forth for the said Thomas Gerrard, the Island over against the said neck called St. Clements Island, and Containing four score acres or thereabouts. John Lewger Surveyor."

(Signed)

On the following day (Nov. 3), a patent was issued to Thomas Gerrard of the above tract, constituting it a Manor by the name of St. Clement's Manor, and giving him, his heirs and assigns authority to hold Courts Baron and Courts Leet upon the said Manor. Thos. Gerrard was commissioned Privy Councilor September 18, 1644, and being several times reappointed, held this position until 1658. He himself was a Roman Catholic, but his wife, Susan, was a Protestant. (See trial of Fitzherbert, in Davis' Day Star). In 1642 he was accused before the council of disturbing the worship of the Protestant inhabitants by taking away the Key of their Chapel and carrying away their books. He was found guilty and sentenced to pay a fine 500 pounds of tobacco. He was still alive in 1666, and had children. The approximate date of his death and the names of his children could be learned from his will which is no doubt on record at Annapolis.

CHRISTOPHER JOHNSTON, JR., M. A., M. D.

RESIANTS: Arthur Delahay: Robt: Cooper: Seth Tinsley: Willm: at Robt Coles: Jn? Gee Jn? Green Benjamin Hamon Jn Mattant.

RS

FFREEHOLD Robt Sly, gent: Willm: Barton gent: Robt Cole: Luke: Gardiner Barthollomew: Phillips Christopher Carnall: Jn: Norman: Jn Goldsmith.

LEASEHOLDERS Thomas Jackson: Rowland Mace: Jn Shankes Richard ffoster: Samuell Harris: John Mansell: Edward Turner: ffrancis Sutton with: Jn? Tennison :

* My thanks are due to the Maryland Historical Society for permission to print these records. I am also under obligation to Mr. J. W. M. Lee, Librarian of the Society, for kind and efficient aid in deciphering and transcribing them; and to Mr. Geo. Johnston, of Elkton, for calling my attention to them in the first instance.-J. J.