Court and Testamentary Business, 1649 50.39

       purposes as any Attorney may or ought to bee Witnes my Liber A.

       hand this 27th of december 1649    Jo: Rosier

       Witnes Phillipp Chaddock John Hiller

       Wm Brough plte The hearing of this Cause is by consent

       Richard Nevitt deft respited till next Court.

       Raphe Beane pile The hearing of this Cause is by consent

       Wm Evans deft respited till next Court.

         Be it knowne vnto all men by these prsents that I Nathaniell

       Pope of Apomattocks gent doe by these prsents make consti-

       tute and ordaine my welbeloved ffreind Willm Hardwich my

       true and lawfull Attorney for and in my name to aske demand

       and receive all such debts wch are due to mee in Maryland,

       and (vppon denyall) to sue pleade & ympleade in prison &

       out of prison, and whatsoever my Attorney doth I doe allowe

       of as if I my self were there personally Witnes my hand this

       4th day of October 1650

                               Nathaniell Pope his Marke

       Testis Phillipp Silvestie david Anderson.

       Nathaniell Pope pite The Complte sues (by Willm Hardwich p.

       Jo: Halfhead deft his Attorney) for 15 dayes worke in leiwe of

       a Bricklayer lent the deft vppon promise to pay him soe many

       dayes worke againe. And the deft acknowledgeth the pltes

       Man worked with him but knowes not whether hee paid for it

       or not And the pltes Attorney being willing to referr it to the

       defts oath whether paid or not, the defts refused to take his oath,

       but referred it to the pltes oath and agreed to bee bound

       thereby. Wch the Court doth order accordingly, and for that

       purpose doth respite the further hearing of the Cause till the

       next Court

                       Wm Eltonhead esqr prsent (cum cetris)

       Richard Nevitt pite The Complte by Georg Manners his At-

       John Slingesby deft torney, sues for 700 l of Tob: & Caske p Bill.

       The deft alleadgeth he paid two hogsheads of Tob. vpon this

       Bill, And the pltes Attorney acknowledgeth that the deft deliv-

       ered to the pite two hhds of Tob: vppon the Bill, but saith

       Walter Pakes laid clayme to one of the hhds and prsently after

       the said delivery tooke it into his possion, And the Court here-

       vpon conceiving the said delivery to bee sufficient paymt of soe

       much of the debt as the said 2 hhds came to doth order that the

       defendt bee discharged of soe much And for the Remainder

       (if any bee, the plies Attorney is willing to accept of Walter

       Beane (prsent in Court) for his Paymaister, vppon his offer for