398Court and Testamentary Business, 1654.

        Liber B.   now are or hereafter Shall be due and oweing to me the Said

              Thomas Cornwalleys by any person or persons Whatsoever

              within the Said Province of Maryland, Virginia or any part of

              America, Giving and by these presents. Granting unto my Said

              Attorney full power and Authority by himself or an Attorney

              for default of paymt to Sue Arrest Implead or Imprison and

              person or persons Indebted as aforesaid: And upon payment

              made againe to release acquitt and discharge them or any of

              them, but neither to Compound or Exchange any debt or

              debts bill or bills whatsoever without the advice and Consent

              of Capt William Stone Governour of this Province of Maryland,

              as alsoc with the advice and approbation of the Said Capt Wil-

              liam Stone to lett, Sett, aliene and dispose for the use and

              benefitt of me my heires Executors & assignes all or any of

              my Lands or houses Plantation or plantacons on Potomock

              River within this Province of Maryland reserving only one

              hundred acres of Rich Land for the habitation of my two Ne-

              groes Peter and Mary. Further giveing power unto my Said

              Attorney Richard Hodgkeys to Sell or Barter for beaver To-

              bacco or any other Merchantable Commodity all Such goods

              and Merchandize as are by me left and Intrusted with him, or

              that Shall hereafter be Sent and Consigned to him, And what

              my Said Attorney Shall Lawfully doe in all or any of the

              prmisses whilst he Continues in my Imploymt and Authority is

              Unrevoked I bind my Self my heires Executors Administrs and

              Assignes to Ratifie and Confirme. In Wittness whereof I

              have hereunto Sett my hand and Seale the 3d of July Anno

              Dni. 1654

         Sealed & dd in the prsence of W Sinclare Tho: Cornwalleys

                                   Rob. Guest

          p. 623 At a Court holden for the Province of Maryland the 16th of

              October 1654.

          Capt Willm ffuller                mr Edward LLoyd

                Present mr Rich: Preston  Mr Leon: Strong

          mr Wm Durand                    Mr Rich: Eninge

               John Ashcomb Sueth for Satisfaction out of Tho: Trum-

              peters Estate for attendance and provision in his Sickness for

              his winding Sheet and burying of his Corps, which is allowed

              to the Said Ashcombe from the Said Estate to the Value of

              two hundred and fifty pounds of Tobacco.

               It is ordered that Peter Godson Shall be allowed one hundd

              and Eighty pounds of Tobacco out of the Estate of Thomas

              trumpeter which is for Physick to him in the time of his

              Sickness.