332  Provincial Court Proceedings, 1664.






              Liber B B   may Concerne and in Case of non payment in prison to put and out
                     of prison to release and in my name discharge or discharges acquit
                     tance or acquittances to giue and to act any thinge that me may Con
                     cerne in this prouince in as full and ample manner as granted to any
                     attorney whatsoeuer Ratyfying and allowing whatsoeuer my said
                     Attorney in these prmises shall legally doe in as firme and ample
                     manner as if I my selfe were there prsonally prsent my selfe in testy
                     mony whereof I haue hereunto sett my hand and seale this 16th day
                     of Decembr 1664           Mathew Rodham Seale
                       Testes Hugh Sherwood
                           the marke of
                          Thomas   Pinner

                     Joseph Inglesby plt the plt pref errs his petn to this honble Court
                     Mathew Rodham by (as in folio 406) therein declaring that
                       his Attorney Barnaby the deft would force the ph to serue him
                       Jackson defendant One yeares seruice more then the ptt is
                     obleiged as by petn may more at large appeare Whereuppon the Board
                       did examine into the prmisses and found by the defts Attorney (uide
                       letter of Attorney ut supra) that the plt had seru'd full foure yeares,
                       therefore Judged by the Act of this prouince that the plt ought not
                       to serue any longer they being not obleiged to take Cognizance of
                       that Act in Vergenia Concerning Seruants Seruitudes—
                       Theref ore Ordered that the said Seruant haue his ffreedome from
                     the date hereof, and that the said Mathew Rodham doe pay and sat

                     tisfye unto the said Inglesby what Cloathes and Corne is due to the

                     said Inglesby according to the Act of Assembly in that Case

                     prouided—

                     To the Honble Gouernor & Councell In prouinall Cort assembled

                       The humble pet” of Rob: Lloyd Chirurgion Humbly sheweth That
                 [p. 408] yor petr was summoned by Capt Burgesse High Sherriffe of Ann
                     A run dell County to desect the body of Jeffery Haggman seruant to
                       Joseph ffincher the which yor petr performed according to his
                       Comand aforesd and besides was put uppon the Jury of Inquest
                       That the said Sherriffe denyes to allow yor petr sufficient sattisfac
                       con for desecting the Body of the aforesaid party according to his
                       due and right by the lawes of England—
                       y0r petr therefore humbly prayeth yor Honnors Consideracon of
                     the prmisses and to allow him his ffees due by the lawes of England
                     or Otherwise as in yor wisdomes shall thinke fltt for the sattisfaccon
                     of yor petr—And he shall euer pray

                       Ordered upon the aboue menconed petn that Rob: Lloyd Chirur
                     gion be allowed for desecting the body of Jeffery Haggman by the
                     sherriffe of Ann Arundell County soe much as the Commrs of the
                     said County shall see meet and the said sume soe disburssed by the