144 Provincial Court Proceedings, 1663-64.





               Liber B B     Debt & sumes as are now due unto mee, Gyuing & graunting unto
                     my sd Attorney my full power strength & authority in & about the
                     premises, & uppon the Receipt of any such Debt, acquittances or
                     other discharges for mee, & in my name, to make, Seale, & deliuer.
                     And I doe hereby further authorize my sd Attorney to answere all
                     suites commenced or to be commenced agst mee in any Court of this
                     Prouince hereby ratifying & confirming whatsoeur my sd Attorney
                [p. 195]     shall doe in the premises, as if I were prsonally prsent In wittnes
                     whereof I haue hereunto putt my hand & Seale this 10th ffebruary,
                     1663.                                Seale
                      Signed Sealed & deliuered    Mary Bateman
                        in the prseflce of
                         John Gittings

                     Symon Carpenter plf The plf sues as afore in his Petn fol. 149.
                     Mrs Mary Bateman deft The deft by her Attorney Capt Thomas
             Vid fol.   149 Manning answeres, That the sheriffe did not Leaue a Copey of the
                    ptfs Declaraon or Petn wth the deft, according to Act of Assembly,
                     whereby to prouide her answere. The deft likewise answeres tht
                     Mr Thomas Sprigge, as ouerseer of the Estate of Thomas Belcher
                     hath allready entred Caueat uppon Record in Caluert County agst
                     the Estate of John Bateman, That noe Judgmts should passe agst
                     the Estate of the sd John Bateman ‘till the Exequutrix of the Bate-
                     man had accompted for the Estate of the orphan of Thomas Belcher,
                     wch was & is in his the sd Batemans posses” & Custody, To wch pur
                     pose the sd Mr Thomas Sprigge hath directed his letter to the honble
                     the Leiut Grail, & Recorded/
                      Ordered tht the Commicrs of Caluert County att their next meet
                     ing in tht County doe take into their charge from Mrs Mary Bate
                     man, Exequutrix of John Bateman deceased, the whole Estate of the
                     orphan of Thomas Beicher, now in her hands: Together wth the
                     account of the sd Estate. And further ordered That this order bee
                     deliuered to Capt Thomas Manning to bee sent by him unto the next
                     County Court in Caluert County.
                      The plf maketh oath to his accounts now by him produced in open
                     Court. Then the deft Craues a Coppy of the ptfs accompts & en
                     gagemts wch hee now hath taken his oath of, & an imparleance ‘till
                     next Prouinciali Court, to make answere therto. And the Court
                     ordered tht the deft haue Coppy of the sd Accounts gyuen her by the
                     plf; And further ordered tht the Deft haue Imparleance ‘till next
                     Prouinciall Court, to make her plea & exceptions thereunto.

                      This Bill Bindeth mee Thomas Bisse of Bristoll mercht rny heyres
                     or assignes to pay or cause to bee payd unto John Edmonson &
                     ffrances Armestronge their heyres or Assignes Eleuen Thowsd ffiue
               [p. 196] hundd pownds of good, large, bright Tob. & cask to bee payd uppon
                     the Clifts, or in Patuxt Riuer, att or uppon the 10th day of Octobr