Chancery Court Proceedings, 1674.  437

     shall doe or cause to be done in or about the premisses or any part Liber P C
     thereof by these presents In wittnes whereof I the said Charles
     Scarburgh as the Attorney and Agent of the abovenamed Henry
     5carburgh have hereunto sett my hand and seale in the margent
     hereof this first day of April One thousand six hundred seventy One.
                               Cha: Scarburgh seale.
      On the backside of the abovesaid Letter of Attorny was thus
     written vizt The within written letter of Attorny was by the within
     named Charles Scarburgh acknowledged as his Act and deed to the
     within named Daniel Jenifer in the presence of Us.
                                    Thomas Aram
                                    George Kirkam
                                     Mary Williams
      Memorandum that the abovewritten Letter of Attorney was the
     15th day of April 1674 proved in Open Court here by the Oath of
     Thomas Aram one of the wittnesses thereunto.
      Ordered that the former bill be dismist without Costs and that p. 54
     the defts putt in their severall and respective answers by the nine-
     tenth day of May next ensueing.

     Mr Robert Ridgley.
      Sr desire you will be retained One of W Henry Scarburghs
     Attorneys and in case of my failing to appeare at the next Court in
     the said cause that you would please to act as fully and amply therein
     as if I were personally present and this shall be your sufficient
     warrant of Attorney therein from under my hand as the Attorny
     and On the behalfe of the abovenamed Henry Scarburgh Com-
     plainant and Capt Richard Pery and Others defendants this 21th
     day of April 1674.              Daniel Jenifer
    To Mr Robert Ridgley Attorny
        of the Provinciall Court
        Wittnes Jno Blomfeild

      Memorandum that Die Sabati 7e Martij 1673 came Robert Lasly
     administrator of the goods and Chattells of John Bigger Sen late
     of Calvert County deceased by his Procuratr Robert Carvile and
     shewed that upon the forth day of June last past John Brigger jur
     tendred an accompt upon Oath of the estate of John Bigger Senior
     deceased to the value of eight thousand six hundred and five pounds
     of tobacco besides sixteen dozen of wooden combes not valued and
     three dozen of pinns the said administrator therefore prayed that
     the said Bigger jur might be Ordered to deliver to him the said
     eight thousand six hundred and five pounds of tobacco and the
     sixteene dozen of combes and the three dozen of pins or the value
     of them whereupon the judge considered that forasmuch as every
     Executor whether by right or of his Owne wrong is presumed to