Provincial Court Proceedings, 1665.  497






       Ordered tht the deft deliver the Cow, & an yeareling steere, belong- Liber F F
     ing to the sd Cow forthwth
       The plf brought in his Bill of Charges, web amounteth to Three
     hundd & Ten pownds of Tob. wch is allowed by the Court

       The Grand Jury came into Court & brought the Inditemt against
     Raymond Staplefort, Endorsed (Billa Vera)

       These prnts wittnes That I Richard Allen of the Citty of London
     mercht doe hereby ordaine make constitute appoynt & putt in my
     place, Willm Moffett of Virginia in the parts beyound the seas Planter, Moffetts Lre
     my true & Lawfull Attorney for mee & in my name & to & for my of Attorney
     use, to aske demand, leauy, recouer & receiue all such debt & debts
     sume & sumes of money as are to me due oweing or payable by any
     prson or prsons whatsoeuer in Virginia aforesd by bond, bill, booke
     specialty or by any other wayes or meanes whatsoeur or howsoeur,
     Gyuing & hereby graunting unto my sd Attorney my full power &
     authority in the Exequuon of the prmises And for mee & in my name
     to arrest, sue, imprison, & impleade all & euery such prson & prsons for
     all & euery such debt & debts, sume & sumes of money as are to me
     due oweing or payable as aforesayd, And to recouer in euery such
     suite & suites & to sue out execüon & Execuons uppon euery such
     Recouery & recoueries according to the Lawes, And allso to acquitt, [p. 87]
     compownd for, & discharge the same, And all accons suites Judgmtts
     & cxequuons tht shall concerne the same, Attorneys one or moe in
     the prmises under him to substitute, & the same att his pleasure to
     reuoakc, And further to doe, or procure to bee done all such other
     Lawfull & reasonable act & acts, thing & things, as shall bee needf nil
     & expedient in or about the premises, in as large & ample manner and
     forme, in eucry respect, as I my selfe might or could doe, if I were
     present, Ratifying & allowing all & whatsoeur my sd Attorney shall
     Lawfully doe, or cause to bee done in or about the prmises by these
     prsents. In wittnes whereof I haue hereunto sett my hand & scale.
     Gyuen the sixth day of August Ano dni 1662, & in the ffowrteenth
     ycare of the Reigne of our Soueraigne Lord Charles the second by
     the Grace of God, of England, Scotland, ffrance & Ireland King,
     Defendor of the ifayth &c: Richard Allen scale
       Sealed & deliuered in
         the prsence of Vs
          Tho: Harwood
          Jon Dunch
     Willm Moffett the Attorl The ptfs Petn being Read, And his
       ney of Richard Allen   Account produced, Hee maketh Oath
     Thomas Bowdell deft  to his sd Acct (Vizt) That the Acct
     now shewen in Court is a iust acct (Errors Excepted) The deft pleads








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