400Provincial Court Proceedings, 1664-65.





               Liber B B  age and findeing himselfe unfitt for such troubles and the aforesaid
                      Cooper neglecting the aduice of yor petr doth wholy associate him
                      selfe with the aforesaid Price wthout either the aduice or Assent of
                      yor petr the which yor petr doth suppose to be uery inconuenient and
                      prejudiciall to the issue of his bussines wherfore yor petr Doth
                      humbly desire this Honble Court that yow will be pleased to release
                 [p. 488] yor petitioner of his trouble and Assigne unto the youth some more
                      fitt to undertake his Bussiness or that yow will soe assist him undr
                      yor Honnors Protections as yow shall finde most Conuenient to his
                      Condicon and that yor Honnors will be pleased to take the Charges
                      of yor petr into yor Consideracon and grant me Order therefore as yor
                      Honnors wisdomes shall see Conuenient And yor petr shall euer
                      pray
                           Samuell Cooper Debtr               lb tob:
                      One suite of Clothes                    116
                      One Lockeram shirte                      33
                      One blew shirte                          25
                      One paire of plaine shooes               30
                      One paire of wosted stockins             30
                      One paire of Irish stockings..          1 I
                      One weeding hoe                          20
                      a boate and a man                       350
                      To Mr Gittings                          400
                      for my diet 3 barrills of Come          600
                      One paire of Conuas drawers              11
                      for a suite of Clothes trimming and makingI I 5
                      for the wittnesses from Chicocone       200
                      my owne Charge and expence in following the seuerall Courts 24 0
                         I leaue to Consideracon
                      for leauyes                              56
                                                              2237

                                                          More 30
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                        Samuell Cooper being then Call'd to the Board to see if the aboue
                      said accompt be right and Just who said it was, the Court then askt
                      him who he would Choose for another Guardian, Who made Choice
                      of Walter Beane in Charles County Wherefore Ordered that Walter
                      Beane doe come downe to St Marys within One Month and finde
                      security according to Act of Assembly, Entituled an Act for the
                      prseruacon of Orphans Estates, Further Ordered That the abouesaid
                      accompt of Two Thowsand Two hundred sixty seauen pounds of
                      tobaccoe bee allowed the said Barnaby Jackson out of the Orphans
                      Estate being that fifteene thowsand to be paid by Willm Smyth, allsoe