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      them, or any or eyther of their Lawfull substitutes, shall doe or cause Liber F F
      to bee done in the pursuance of this my power, I hereby allow of,
      ratify & confirme, to bee as firme & substantiall to all intents & pur
      poses as if I were prsonally prsent att the doeing thereof. In Confir
      moon hereof I haue hereunto sett my hand & seale the 22th day of
      May 1665                 Isaack Bedlow seale
       Signed sealed & deliuered
      in the prsence of* Then the deft sayth for answere
          Justinian GerardThat he detayneth no such ffrigott
          Tho: Lomax.in manner & forme as is alleaged/
        After much debate in the cause by the Attorneys on both sides
      pleading & many papers produced & read, The Cause putt to a Jury.
        Writt to sheriffe to impanell a Jury of 12 men, Ret. forthwth.
      Sheriffe Ret. his writt, & warned & called
      if orem an
       Capt Willm Burgesse            Richard Collett   John Gittings
      Justinian Gerard  Abraham Rowse John Emerson
      Thomas Sprigge    Beniamin Rosier  Daniel Clocker
      John Smyth        Curtis ffletcher Nicholas Yowng
       The plfs Declaroon being       Read,
        * The deft in answere sayth, That hee detayneth noe such ffrigott
      in manner & forme as is alleaged.
        John Hawkings in hac causa sworne sayth,   [p. 761
        That about three yeares agoe hee freighted horses uppon tht Ves
      sell, now in dispute & since one horse on the same, & tht it was then
      reputed & esteemed by him this Depont as Mr Hudsons Vessell.
        Raymond Staplefort in ditt positiuely sweares tht the Vessell now
      in dispute about ffowre yeares & a halfe agoe was Mr Hudsons Ves
      sell, Being told soe much by the Carpenter who built that Vessell,
      lice Iyuing in New England.
        The papers both of the plf & the deft being read. & their allegaons
      on both sides heard, The Jury went out on the busines in charge

      Henry Warren pr Attorn Willm Calurt Esq plf
      George Thompson pr Attorn Samuel Cressey deft
       Know all men by these prnts tht I Henry Warren of St JnnegOs in
      the County of St Maries gentn doe hereby constitute & appoynt my
      worthy ffriend Willm Caluert Esq my true & Law full Attorney for
      nice & in my name & in my steed & place in a Case depending be
      tweene mee Henry Warren, & George Thompson of Charles County
      for the summe of 1975 Tob due to mee by Bill, Gyuing my sd Attor
      ney full power to arrest, sue, imprisone, condemme, & out of prison
      againe to release as in his best discretion hee shall see cause & thinke
      fitt, ffurthermore I doe hereby graunt & giue my sd Attorney power &
      authority to make ordaine & appoynt any one on more Attorneys