64      Court and Testamentary Business, 1640.

             Liber Z.   touching the truth of a certificate made & issued vnder the great

                   seale of this Province with the teste of the said Leonard Calvert,

                   beginning (immediately after the greeting) in these words

                   [whereas divers actions of debts & accompts &c] and ending

                   (immediately afore the teste or date) in these words [agst the

                   said Tho: Cornwaleys as Admrator aforesaid] made oath

                   that the said Certificate was sincerely taken out of the severall

                   records mentioned therin, and dmd perfectly agree with the

                   Records; and that the said records out of wch it was taken,

                   were truely entred and kept according to the very truth of the

                   iudgements severally recovered agst the said Tho: Cornwaleys,

                   without any fraud or collusion in the part of the said Tho:

                   Cornwaleys or any other as the dept verily beleeveth. And

                   more he deposeth not.

                    I John Lewger Secretary of maryland, and Commissary

                   generall for causes testntary within this Province to my beloved

                   in Christ Robert Clerke gent of St maries gent send healthe

                   in Or Lord God Everlasting, whereas Thomas Cooper late of

                   St Michaels hundred carpentr deceased intestate as is affirmed,

                   hath divers goods as is said in the hands & possession of

                   severall persons within this Province; I doe therefore hereby

                   authorise you to take into your custoclie & possession whatso

                   ever goods of the said Thomas Coopers at the time of his

                   death within this Province, & to receive and demand the same

                   of any persons whatsoever within this Province that shall have

                   any of his said goods in possession, & all his said goods what

                   soever to collect together at St maries, and there to publish &

                   sell them at an outcry; keeping true accompt thereof. And I

                   doe hereby will and require all persons whatsoever that shall

                   have any of the said goods. of the said Thomas Coopers, to

                   deliver the same vnto you, according to this my authority given

                   vnto you, vpon such paine as may ensue the contempt hereof.

                   Given at St Maries this fifth of June 1640. Revoked againe.

                   & in steed thereof lres of AdThraon.

                    Cecilius &c to Or beloved Robt Clerk &c. cominitt vnto you

                   the Admraon of the goods of Thomas Coop &c. the goods

                   to be sold at an outcry, to bring the Inventary in a month vnles

                   further time be given: & the Accompt vpon demand. Given

                   the day aforesaid

                    day given till the fifth of August

             p. 104 Cecilius &c.

                    a lrë of Admraon for John Russell of the goods of John

                   Glantham: the Inventary to be made by the discretion &