444 Court and Testamentary Business, 1655 / 6.

         Liber B. any Claime to the aforesaid Land or housing Wittness my

            0.3. hand this 9th of January 1655

              Wittness Mich: Brooke            Mary Smith

                     Thomas Seniar

                     ffrancis x Abramson

                        her mark

                Know all men by these presents that I Sr William Courtney

              of Newhouse in the County of Wilts Barronett Cont of the

             Speciall trust and Confidence which I have and doe Repose in

               2 Robert Thimbleby of gent Doe hereby Athorize Con-

              stitute and appoint him the Said Robert Thimbleby to be my

              true and Lawfull Attorney for me amid in my Name to Enter

              upon all Such Manners Tenements, Lands & Grounds which

              of Right doe belong to me, in the Countrey of Maryland

              beyond the Seas which have happened and accrued to me by

              the death of my mother mrs Elinor Hawley and which are

              Commonly distinguished and knowne by the Names of the

              Mannors of st Jerornes and St Helens or by whatsoever other

              Names the Said Mannors Lands and Grounds are Called

              known or distinguished, Hereby Giving and Granting to the

              Said Robert Thimbleby my Said Attorney full power and

              Authority for nie andl in my Name to use all Lawfull waies and

              meanes for the Recovery of the possession of the preniisses for

              me & for my use, amid to Receive the profitts and Revenues

              thereof in as full & ample manner as if I my Self were there

              personally present to doe the Same, he my Said Attorney

              Rending me a Just and true Accompt of whatsoever he Shall

              doe amid Receive touching the preniisses by Vertue hereof,

              Given under my hand anti Seale this five and twentieth day of

              November one thousand Six hundred fifty ant five.

              Sealed & Delivered in the    William Courtnay

              prsence of Bridg

                     Roger Cocham

                     George Pultiott

              Aprill the first     John Bagby his mark is a Square on the right

              1656Eare, a Swallow Tayle on the Left Eare and a

              Nick under the Swallow Tayle

                Iohn Sutton his marke is both Eares Slitt from the Topp of

              the Eare to the Root of the Eares.

                William Harper his mark is a piece taken off before on both

              Eares.

         p.183 Roger Berry his mark is both Earcs Underkeeled.