This is the eighteenth volume in the series "Abstracts of the Testamentary Proceedings of the Prerogative Court of Maryland." The series is arranged, volume by volume, chronologically by court session. Volume XVIII consists of abstracts of the records for the period 1727-30, as found in the remainder of Liber 28 and the first 64 pages of Liber 29. In all, the latest book in this remarkable series refers to an additional 8,500 inhabitants of the Province of Maryland in the years just prior to 1730.