Provincial Court Proceedings, 1663.     69

      stituant to aske demand recouer & receaue of Mr Samuel Smith his Liber B B
      heyres Executors admistrators or assignes, Lyuing in Maryland or
      elsewhere in Virginia All such debts & dues, or sume or sumes of [p. 106]
      money, Tob. or other goods as hee the sd Samuel Smith is indebted
      unto the Constituant as doth & may appeare by the Bills Bonds &
      Engagemts thereof to bee shewne, And uppon refusall of paynit to
      lay arrest uppon or goods, Arest sue for, implead, imprisone & con
      dethe the sd Samuel Smith his heyres executors admistrators or as
      signes. Moreour the Constituant heas gyuen unto his foresd Attur
      ney full power uppon satisfaction Receaued from the sd Samuel, or
      his heyres Executors admistrators or assignes to acquitt & out of
      prison to release, & in his name & stead to giue discharge or dis
      charges to him, or to his order, And further to use any Lawfull
      meanes whatsoeur may bee needfull for the Recouery of the Debts,
      wth the charges & interests, Easpecia!ly to compownd & agree for the
      altering of the place & time of the paymt, And further if hee sees cause
      to make & substitute one or more Atturney or Attorneys under him,
       the same or limitated power, & doth hee the sd Constituant by
      these prnts Act, retify confirme & allow of all & whatsoeur by his sd
      Attorney or any Attorneys under him shall bee lawfully done, or
      caused to bee done touching the recouery of the sd debt & appurteflces,
      to bee as authentike as if the Constituant being from time to time all
      wayes prsonaily himselfe ptsent, could or might haue done. In wiltnes
      whereof the Constituant hath subscribed & sealed this in the prnce
      of Claes uan Elsant marshall & Henry Obe ordinary keeper inhabi
      tants of this Towne Credible wittnesses thereunto requyred. Acted
      wth out fraud att Amsterdam in the New Netherlands Ano Dni 1662,
      this 18th Aprill Stylo nouo. ffrederik Gisbertson Seale
        Claes uan Elslant garts bod
           Hendrick Obe
      Signed & sealed in the prnce of mee
           Salomon Zachary not Publ.

        Know all men by these prflts tht I Joseph Swett of Boston in
      New England mariner, for diuers good Causes & Consideraons mee
      thereunto mouing, haue made ordayned & Constituted & by these
      prnts doe make ordaine & constitute, by uertue of the Letter of Pro
      curaon or Attorney hereunto annexed Mr Robert Slye of St Maries
      County in the Prouince of Maryland mercht to bee my true & Lawfull
      Substitute or Attorney, for & in the prosequüon of all whatsoeur the
      sd letter of Attorney hereunto annexed hath or doth impower me in
      or for all whatsoeur the sd Letter of Attorney doth cappasitate mee
      to doe or act, in what manner or nature soeuer it bee, And I doe
      hereby Resigne up all my sd power & authority whatsoeur in the sd
      Letter of Attorney declared & expressed unto him the aforesd Slye, [n. 107]
      & to his Substitutes or Attorneys, Hereby (by uertue of the aforesd