Thomas Stone
       Mary Stone
       Provincial Court Proceedings, 1663.
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       Remission, Quitt Claime, ffine & Concord the sd Richard hath gyuen Liber B B
       unto the sd Thomas & Mary full satisfaction, wherewth they acknowl
       edge themselues fully & amply satisfyed & payd.
         Taken & acknowledged att St Johns
          before me this 9th day of
          Septembr 1663.
            Charles Caluert.

         I doe hereby nominate & appoynt my louing Brother Mr Willm
       Caluert my Attorney to preferre a Petn for the extending Westbury
       mannor as Wittnes my hand this 9th September 1663.Testes ffrancis Riggs Tho: Dent.           Tho: Stone

       To the honble the Gouernor & Councell of Maryland
         The humble Petn of Tho: Stone by his Attorney Humbly Shewth,
       That yor Petr had an Order graunted by this honble Court to extend
       the mannor of Westbury, Land of Mr Wiilm Westons in leiue & in
       satisfaction of a Debt due to yor Petr in money sterl. In Complyance
       to the sd Order it was extended: But soe that (as yor Pet” humbly
       Conceiues) the Extenders for want of Informaon & Judgmt in such
       affaire & yor Petr being not there present att the extending thereof to
       informe them in the busines, yor Pet” hath by their Extent Layd,
       suffered great, manifest, & apparent dammage & losse, ffor the sd
       Extenders not considering (as wee Conceiue the losse of time &
       Charge that yor Petr hath bene att recouering the Debt, & ex
       tending the sd Land, hath by their short extent left yor Petr uery [p.
       much unsatisfyed. The premises taken into yor honrs serious Con
       sideraon yor Petr Craues such Releife & Redresse as yor honrs shall
       determine requisite. And yor Petr according to duty shall pray &c:
         Ordered That a new Extendi facias issue out, And tht the sd Land Comu Exiuit
                                              23th 1663 to
       bee againe extended, The Petr gyuing the Extenders informaon con sheriffe St
       cerning the dammage susteyned by him, as hee alleageth.     Maries
                                                   County ac
                                                   cording to
         Know all men by these p nts th I Rob Gowland mariner doe in- Order
       stitute & appoynt my louing ffreind Thomas Nottley rnercht my true
       & Lawfull Attorney to aske demand & receiue of & from ffrancis
       Bachelor in Maryland scituated, the full sume of Two Thowsd pownd
       weight of good sownd merchble Tob in Cask, due by Bill uppon all
       demands, for my use, & in my behalfe, And in case of non paymt
       I further authorize my sd Attorney to sue, impleade, imprisone, Re
       lease, & to giue discharge, & act, according to his discretion herein.
       Whatsoeur hee shall act shall bee ratifyed and made good by mee:
       Hee hauing as much power as if I my selfe were here prsent. In
       wittnes whereof I haue hereunto putt my hand & Seale this 16th day
       of May 1663.               Robert Gowland Seale
         Signed, Sealed & Deliuered in
          prsence of
            John Nutthall Patrick fforrest