202        Kent County Court Proceedings, 1656-1662.

         Liber B Mr Louely & wife & Child the fetching of wood water and the beat
               ing thayre brede and moorouer the said Bennett shall deleuer unto
               the said Louely his Heyrs or Asigns the flue Cowes with all thayre
               female Increse at the end of the said flue years if thay shall not be
               deed or lost and tenne Barrows flue sowes and a boore of a yeare and
               halfe or upwards with all the other housald goods according to the
               Inuentory Annexed to them in thayre kinde as the said bennett did
               Receue them the tobaco is to be Conditiö According to Acct of Asim
               bly In wittnes whearof we haue Interchangably sett our hands thes
               first day of dececeth 1660 Del Louelye
               Wittnes Nickholas pickard  Recorded p Me Tobye wells Clk
                     John Coursey    thes 7th of feberary 1660

      feb: 7tb 1660 Margret Hansone hur marke of Cattell and Hoogs is A Crop and
               underceale and hole in both years

                 Caesilius Absolut lord and propratary of the provinces of Mary
               land and aualon Lord Barron of Baltimore & to Anthony griffin
               shirfe of Kent County greating, Whearas by the Advice and consent
               of oure Counsell wee haue Dettermined to hold an Asimbly of the
               fremen of oure province at St Marys on the seuententh day of Aperell
               next Theare to Consider of sertayne things Conserning the state and
               welfare of thes oure province of Mariland we Command youe
               Anthony griffin shrife of Kent County that Makinge proclamation
               as sonne as Conueniently may be after the Recept of thes wrett youe
               Caus such and so many discreat men as yowe shall thinke fitt to serue
               as Burgises in the said Asimbly theare to doe and Consent to such
               things as by Common Consent shall hapen to be ordayned and en
               actted in the Bussines afore said so that throw want of suffitient
               poure or Inconsiderate elettion of the Aforesaid Burgises the bussi
               neses afore said may not Remaine undon or neglected and make youre
               Retorne of thes write into the secretarys office by the seuententh day
               of Aperell next giuene at St Marys under oure greate scale of oure
               said province of Mariland thes Aeight and twentieth day of feberary
               in the nine and twentieth yeare of oure Dominion ouer the said prov
               ince of Mariland Ano dominy on thousand six hundred and sixty
               Vara Copia Teste me              Phillip Calvert
                     Tobye Wells Clk

        [fol. 87]   The oath of Commandr or Commisior of A Countye
                 You shall sware that as Commisionr in the County of Kent in all
               Artickells in his Lordships Commisin to you derecked you shall doe
               equall Right to the poore as to the Rich to the best of your Cunninge
               witte & poure and after the precedents & Customs of thes prouince &
               acts of Asimbly thearof made and that ye Hoide your sesions or
               Courts as youe are dericked in your Commision or Acording to Actes
               of Asimbly prouided in that behalfe and all fines and Amersments