44 Court and Testamentary Business, 1649-50.

        Liber A.   you that from henceforward you desist & forbeare any further

              to sue implead molest or prosecute the said John Thimbleby

              for or concrning the said decedents estate or any part thereof

              as you will answere the contrary And wee doe hereby re-

              quire Or Leivet cheif Governor & Chancellor or Keep of Or

              great seale of Or Province for the time being & all & every

              Or Councellors Comanders & Comissioners & all other Justices

              Judges & Magistrates within Or said Province authorized & to

              bee from time to time by vs or Or heires hereafter appointed &

              authorized for matters of Judicature, that they & every of them

              bee carefuil from time to time as occasion shall require to Or

              Will & pleasure herein before declared to bee duely observed

              & pformed according to Justice And that in case the said Jo:

              Thimbleby shall happen at any time hereafter to bee sued

              impleaded or prosecuted in any of Or Courts of Justice within

              or Province contrary to 0r true intcnt & meaning herein

              before signified, that they & every of them then prsent in Court

              shall admit of & allowe this Quiet est or the Record thereof

              for a lawfull & sufficient Plea in barr to all & every such suite

              Accon or demand In witnes whereof wee haue caused or Sec-

              retary of Or said Province of Maryland to publish the same

              vnder or great Seal of Or sd Province Given at St Maries the

              sixt day of November Anno dni 1650

                              Witnes Or said Secretary Tho: Hatton

           p. 376 19 No. Whereas I William Mitchell of the Citty of Chi-

              chester in the County of Sussex gent did formerly intend a

              Voyage in person to Maryland or Virginia in the Shipp called

              the Thomas and John. I haue provided my self with Servants

              and other necessaries, and Shipped two of my Children, but

              shall for some time remaine my self in England I doe there-

              fore depute and trust as my Assignes to dispose of all my Men

              servants and Boyes shipped vppon my Accompt vnto the

              Charge of Mr John Henshawe Mr Richard Hodgkins and

              Christopher Gery (My Children and Cooke excepted) together

              with all my Iron ware and other Truck and Commodity (my

              Houshouldstuff excepted) which together with my women

              servants I leave totally to the ordering and disposing of Anne

              Boulton my servant. Hereby ratifyeing and confirming what-

              soever they the said John Henshawe Richard Hodgkins and

              Christopher Gery and Anne Boulton shall doe in the prmisses

              (They keeping an Inventory of all the said Goods and Chat-

              tells vppon theire first landing and to give Accompt to nice)

              as well as if I my self were personally present In witnes

              whereof I haue herevnto sett my hand and Seale this fourth

              day of Aprill 1650             WiHm Mitchell

                Sealed & delivered in the prseflce of Thomas Robinson,

              Richard dorrington