Provincial Court Proceedings, 1665.  461






     the losse of his Customers being Confined Close prisoner by the Liber F F
     said Smyth to Mr Charles Brooke yor petr being a Taylor by trade,
     utterly ruinated and hereuppon yor petr brings his Accon; Humbly
     Crauing Redresse for his long imprisonmt according to Law and
     Justice together wth all damages and Cost of suite And yor petr as
     in duty bound shall euer pray

       Know all men by these prsents that I John Sheppard Marriner, [P.43]
     haue signed Ordained made & Constituted my trusty and well he
     loued freinde Abraham Rowse of Charles County in Maryland, To
     he my true & lawfull Attorney, for me and in my name and for my
     Vse, To take aske sue for Leuy require Recouer and Receiue all and
     euery such bill or Bills Bond or Bonds debt or debts sume or sumes
     of tobacco wch are now due unto mee, or shall hereafter become duc
     unto mee, by any manner of wayes or meanes, Giuing and Granting
     to my said Attorney my whole power strength & Authority in and
     about the prmisses, and uppon the receipt of any such bill or bills
     Bond or Bonds Debt or Debts sume or sumes of tobacco or any part
     thereof aforesaide acquittance or acquittances or other discharges
     for mee and in my name to make seale and deliuer, and all and euery
     such Act or Acts thing or things deuise or deuises whatsoeuer in the
     law for the Recouery of all or any suites debts or sumes of tobacco
     as aforesaid for me and in my name and for my use, And further
     Authorizing my said Attorney for to depute undr him One or more
     Attorney or Attorneys as he shall thinke ffitt, to doe Execute and
     prforme as fully largely in euery respect to all intents Construccons
     or purposes as if I my selfe might or could doe, if I were there in
     my Owne prson prsent Rattifying allowing and holding flrme and
     stable all and whatsoeuer my said Attorney or his Deputant or Depu
     tants shall lawfully doe or Cause to be done in or about the Execu
     con of the prmisses aforesaid by uertue of these prsents In wittnes
     whereof I haue hereunto sett my hand and seale this 6th day of
     March in the yeare of Our Lord God One thowsand six hundred
     sixty ffowre—               John Sheppard Seale
       Signed sealed & deliuered
       In the prsents of Vs
          Francis Pope
          the marke of William Ward
       The abouesaid letter of Attorney was on the 10th day of July
     1665 brought into the Office by Rowse, wth request to haue it Re
     corded By mee                 Daniel Jenifer Clke

       Thomas Gerrard dds writt agst Philip Combes in an accon uppon [p. 44]
     his Case to the uallue of 3000lb tobb July 19th
       Warrt to sherriffe of St Marys County To arrest &c Ret. 10th
     Octobr next Prouinciall Court.