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have hereunto set my hand and seal the 8^th day of this instant
August 1640
Signed
Signed Sealed and Delivered William Cleyborn

Liber C. B.
1636-57.

in presence of
Henry Poole
Edw^d Conaway
Locus + Sigilli

To the Right Worshipful Leo: Calvert Esq^r and Governor
of Maryland and the rest of the Commissioners

The humble petition of George Scovell Attorney of
Captain William Cleyborn Esq^r
Sheweth
That Captain William Cleyborn at his departure from the
Isle of Kent left an Estate within your province as Your Peti-
tioner is informed amounting to a Good Value since which
time divers inhabitants within your province are possessed of
the said Estate but by what right your petitioner knoweth not
Your petitioners humble Request therefore is the
premises Considered that your Worships would be
pleased not only to allow of your Petitioners Letter of
Attorney but also to Grant unto him free power and
Liberty together with Your Worships furtherance there-
in for the recovery of the Aforesaid Estate in the hands
of any in whom it shall be found
And your Petitioner shall ever pray
The Answer
What Estate Captain William Cleyborn left within this
Province at his departure undisposed of on 24 March 1637
The Petitioner may know that it is Possest by right of forfeiture

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to the Lord Proprietary for certain Crimes of Pyracy and
murther whereof the said Cleyborn was attainted the day
aforesaid by judgment of the house of General Assembly if the
petitioner can find out any of the said Estate not possessed or
held by that right he shall do well to inform his Lordships
Attorney of it that it may be Recovered to his Lordships use
but if the said Cleyborn or any other to his use have since the
said day acquired any Estate within the Province the law of
the Province without any Grant or furtherance of Governor or
Commissioners gives the petitioner or any other Attorney of
the said Cleyborne free power and Authority to recover it and
when it is recovered such Order shall be taken with it as
Justice shall Require

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