8o        Chancery Court Proceedings, 1672.

        Liber C D Oath we doe hereby Empower and Authorize you the s.d ffrancis
               Jenkins duly to Administer & you the s.d Henry Smith having
               Received & taken the s.d oath We do hereby Authorize you to
               Administer the Like Oath of Commission.r and Justice of the
               peace of our s.d County to him the s.d ffrancis Jenkins w.ch being
               done and pformed that then you Call & Cause to come before y° the
               other persons in the s.d Comicon nominated & Appointed to be
               Commission.Ts & Justices of the peace of our Said County & duly &
               truly to administer unto them & Every of them Joyntly or Severally'
               the Said Oath of Commissioner and Justice of the peace of our
               Said County they also takenig ye Same upon the holy Evangelists,
               And when you have So done we do will & Command you That
               you do und.r yo.r hands & Seals Certifie us of your whole proceed-
               ings herein without delay unto or Court of Chancery wheresoever it
               shall then be Together w.th this Writt Wittness our Self at our
               City of s.t maries the nineteenth day of June in the fortieth year of
               our Dominion over o' Said province Annoq Domini one thousand
               Six hundred Seventy two

                Spa John Blomfield to Answer ffrancis Stockett Com. Test 10.th
               July ret 1st Oct p &

                Cacilius &C To the Sheriff of Calvert County Greeting Whereas
               Henry Scarborough of London merch.t hath this day Exhibited his
               Bill of Comp.lt into o.r Court of Chancery ag.t Richard Perry of
               your said County Gent & others defend.ts to be relieved for the
               matters therein Complained of And whereas the Said Richard Perry
               hath not yet answered the Said Bill but Intends to Depart this
           p. 70 province without answering thereof whereby the Comp.lt is in
          (fol. 90) danger to be deprived of the fruit & benefit of his Suit to the Loss
               of Two thousand pounds Sterling & upwards as is alleadged These
               are therefore to will and Command you that you take the body of
               him the Said Richard Perry if he shall be found in your Bailywick
               and him Safely keep till he Enter into a Recognizance in our Said
               Court of Chancery with Sufficient Sureties not to depart this prov-
               ince till he hath fully and perfectly answered the Said Bills and
               also to perform what our Said Court shall decree or Determine
               therein Wittness &c the 30.th of July in the 41.th year of our Do-
               minion over or Said province Annoq Domini 1672

                Caecilius &C To Richard Perry Gent. Thomas Truernan Esq.r &
               Mary his wife & John Gittings & Every & either of you Greeting
               We Command you that all Excuses Set a part you & Either & Every
               of you be & psonall appear before us in our high Court of Chanry
               the first day of Octob.r now next comeing wheresoever it shall then
               be to Answer unto Such things as shall be objected ag.st you by