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     and also require you forthwith upon receipt hereof to take Lib. H. U.

     the sd Amos Nicholls, if he may be found in any place within

     this Province & him safe keep so that you have his boddy

     before the Honoble Iams ffrisby Esqr wth all convenient speed,

     there to enter into Bond wth good Sureties for his personall

     appearance before me and the Honoble his Majtes Privy Coun

     cill at their next sitting att Annapolis there, to answer to

     such matters as on his Majtes behalfe shall be objected against

     him; hereof faile not at your perill, & this shall be your

     sufficient warrant; Given at the Town & Port of Annapolis

     under the Broad Seale of the Province; the 2nd day of October

     in the ninth year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord King

     William the third &ca Annoq Domini 1697.

                                     ffr: Nicholson.

      Came Mr John LLewellyn formerly Clerk of the Comis

     saries Office in the time of the late Coll Nea Blackiston

     Comissry Genrll decd & delivered up unto Kene!m Chiseldyn

     Esqr present Comissry a certain Record Book & other papers

     belonging to that office before his Exncy in Councill and made

     Oath upon the Holy Evangelist that he has formerly and now

     deliver'd up all Record Bookes, papers and writings, wch at

     any time he had in his Custody belonging to the sd Office,

     according to the best of his remembrance and knowledge.

      Ordered that Madam Elizabth Rymer Admx of Coll Nea

     Blakiston cause diligent search to be made among her papers

     to see, whether any papers belonging to the Comissaryes

     Office can be found among them, wch are to be delivered up

     uppon Oath, unto Kenlm Cheseldyn Esqr present Comissry,

     before Mr Richd Cloud one of his Majtes Iustices of St Maries

     County Court; who is hereby accordingly impower'd to

     Adminr such oath Vizt That those are all the papers relating

     to tht affair that can be found at present; and th' if any other

     papers of tht nature do afterwards come to hand, she will

     deliver the same up accordingly.

      Mr James Cran ford, together wth Mr Comissry & his Clerk

     being summoned to answer to a certain complaint of W

     George Linghan, in relation to his Administration upon W

     Abi ngton's Estate; came accordingly.

      The said Cranford is asked to give some reason why he has

     not yet deliver'd up the Bookes, papers & debts belonging to

     the sd Estate unto the said Linghan the present Admr who for

     answer says that he finds a mistake of an Article of Sixty

     thousand pounds of tobb° and that he endeavours to find out

     the mistake first.

      His Exncy ordrs the Comissry not to deliver up Mr Cranfords p. S86

     Security; and further demands of the said Cranford, why he