60 Court and Testamentary Business, 1649 50.

        Liber A.   Cowe Calf and our Cropp vppon the ground for the true

              payment of the aforesaid debt In witnes whereof wee haue

              herevnto sett our hands the day and yeare aboue written

                                        John Shercliffe his Marke

                                              Henry Spinke

              Witnes Richard Willan

                These prsents testify That whereas Zephaniah Smith hath

              received a Lre of Attorney from mee to receive some debts

              for mee at Maryland. I doe revoke countermand and make

              voyde the said Lre of Attorney in all things to all intents and

              purposes whatsoever Having given Order to Mr Thomas

              Marsh to receive the said debts to his owne vse Witnes my

              hand ffebr 9th 1650               Wm durand

                Test Edw: Lloyde

                12o Marcij: Aprill 19th 1647. These are to authorize

              Thomas Bradnox and Edward Comins gent to take into theire

              custody all the Neate Cattell vppon the Isle of Kent belonging

              to any person or psons wch are absent from the said Island, and

              them to keepe in theire custody or tuicon, and to charge the

              Accompt of keeping of them to the owner thereof And for

              soe doeing this shalbe your ComissionGiven at the Isle of

              Kent                               L. Calvert

                eod July this 19th 1642. Knowe all men by these prsents

              that I John Smith of the Isle of Kent planter haue received full

              satisfaccon of Thomas Bradnox of a debt due from Mr William

              Branthwait vnto the said John Smith of Seaventeene hundred

              pounds of Tobacco and likewise another debt of six hundred

              pounds of Tobacco due from the said Mr William Branthwait

              I say Received by mee the day and yeare aboue written

                                             Sign John Smith

              Witnes John Metcalf. dirch Serritt

                eod Novrint vnivrsi p prsentes me Johem Smith Insula de

              Kent planter teneri & firmit obligari Willo Branthwait de cod

              loco gen in triginta mille ponder bone & mrchantabil Tobacco

              solvend eidem Willo Branthwait aut suo cert Attorn executor

              sive Assign suis Ad qu. quidem soluendm bene & fidelit fac

              obligo me hered exec & Admrs meos firmit prsentes Sigillo

              inde sigillat dat vlt die ffebr Anno dni 1639 The Condicon

              of this Obligacon is such that if the aboue bounden John

              Smith his heires execrs & Assignes doe & shall well & truely

              save & keepe indempnified the said Mr William Branthwait

              from all manner of claymes suites of lawe or other troubles