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     time claiming her Liberty of a whole yeare, which being not allowed Liber B B
       did her ffreedome Sue for att the County Court of Caluert att which
       instant neither her said Mastr nor yor petr was prsent to alleadge any Vide 277
       thinge for themselues neuertheless the said Court did allow her Lib
       erty (and soe made ffree,) to your petrs greate detriment being Corn
       pell'd to pay unto her Mastr ffenwick for the said yeares Seruice
       One heifer and a Cow Calfe att 600th tob: and three barrills of Corne
       att 300lb tob: wth 360lb tob: more to James Thompson Clarke besides
       Loss of time Wth this Suites Costs and Charge and the Seruants
       Seruice—
       Wherfore yor petr humbly Craues Ordr of this Honble Court that
      the said Serut may make good not onely her said Indenture but all
      Charges thereby accrued by Seruitude, or otherwise that those
      Commrs by whom she had her ffreedome may therein make sattis
      faccon and as in Duty bound hee shall pray

        Cecilius &c To William Price and Hannah his wife relict of Hugh
      Lee Greeting, for Certaine Causes to Vs propounded in Our Chan
      cery Wee strictly Charge & Comand yoW that all excuses and delayes
      sett a part yow bee in proper prson before Vs, in Our said Chancery
      the fifth of July next wheresoeuer it shall bee to answere there to such
      thinges which shall be objected against yow by or on the behalf e of
      Samuell Cooper then & there And further to doe and receiue what
      soeuer our Colt shall in this bussines thinke fitt and this in noe wise
      Omitt undr the penalty of 100lb sterling and haue yow there this
      writt Wittnes Our deare Brother Philip Caluert Esq Our Chan
      cellor of Our Said Prouince of Maryland this 25th day of June
      1664—                           Philip Caluert.
      To the honoble the Leiuetennt Generall and Chancellor and the rest [p. 284]
        of the Councell of the Prouince of Maryland—
        The humble petcon of Jno Gittings the Attorney of Barnaby Jack- June 2Sth
      son the Guardian of Samuell Cooper, Sheweth Vnto yor Honnors
      Samuell Cooper sonn to Sampson Cooper late of Ryppon in the
      County of Yorke in the Realme of England by his Guardian Barnaby
      Jackson of Screttons in the County of St Marys
        That the second day of Sept in the yeare 1654 Sampson Cooper and
      Hugh Lee entred into Correspondency of trade and Merchandize
      And the said Lee Obleiged himself e undr the penalty of 500th ster:
      to make faythfull returnes and to accompt &c, But the said Lee Con
      trary to his Obligacon per formes nothing whereupon upon the 13th
      day of June 1659 differences betweene the said Cooper & Lee are
      referred to the Arbitracon of John Trussell Dauid Lindsey John
      Rogers and William Pressley and bond drawne and giuen to stand
      to the Award, And upon the said 13th day of June 1659 the Arbitra
      tors aforesaid did award that the said Hugh Lee should pay to the
      said Sampson Waring tenn thowsand pounds of tobaccoe on the tenth