Provincial Court Proceedings, 1664.  241






       Whereupon it was the oponion of the board that they had made a Liber B B
     uery Just appraysment of them.
       Hanc ueram esse Copiam testimonium facit Caroli Comitatus
     Amanuensis—               Georgius Thompsonus—
       Know all men by these prsents that wee Henry Adams Walter
     Beane Zachary Wade William Marshall of Charles County in the
     prouince of Maryland Commrs Doe hereby Constitute Ordaine and
     appoint Our trusty and well beloued freinde George Thompson of
     said County and Prouince Gentn Our true and lawfull Attorney for
     us and in Our names to Answer and defend an accon of the Case
     Commenced against us by the last sherriffe of the said County
     Mr Francis Pope Giuing and hereby Granting unto Our said Attor
     ney our full power and lawfull Authority in the p'mises as fully
     largely and amply might or Could haue if personally there prsent
     and under him one or more Attorney or Attorneys to Constitute Or-
     dame and appointe and him them or any of them att his will and
     pleasure to reuoke annihillate and make uoyd Ratifying and allow
     ing and houlding firme and stable all and whatsoeuer Our said At
     torney shall doe or Cause to bee done in or about the prmises as fully
     largly and amply as wee Our Selues might or Could doe If person- [p. 305]
     ally there prsent and did and acted or had Caused to haue been done
     and acted the same as wittnes these Our handes and Seales this
     4th of June 1664—
     Signed sealed and deliuered       Henry Adams     Seale
      In the presence of Vs.  Zachary WadeScale
        John Hodgson          Walter BeaneSeale
        John Walton            his marke
          his marke           William Marshalli
                               his marke  Seale

     Francis Pope plaintiffe The pit: sues as in his petcon in folio
     Henry Adams Walter 274 The defendants by theire Attor
       Beane Zachary Wade and ney George Thompson pleads on the
       Wm Marshall defendants back of the declaracon by endorsmt not
       Guilty—
       Joseph Harrison deposeth in open Court that hee sworne Henry
     Franckcum and Nehemiah Little as appraysers of two men seruants
       for John Meekes and under the repute of honest men—
       Abraham Rowse sworne in open Court saith—after I had Exe
     cuted these Seruants and brought them to an appraysment I sent
       them to Mr Meekes whereupon they askt Mr Meekes for some Vic
       tualls and hee caryed them to Capt Troopes and keepes them there
       14 dayes after which was an acceptance—
       The plt saith hee is dampnifyed 1500lb tob: which they stopt in
     theire owne handes Therefore desires remedy agt the Commissionrs
     of the County as aforesaid







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