310Kent County Court Proceedings, 1668-1671.








          Uber C any time or times hereafter shall be due owing belonging on apper
               taining to me by any manner of wayes or meanes whotsomeuer
               wthin this puince of Mary land but more Especially from the seuerall
               & perticuler persons as is exprest in a certaine list of bills wich he
               hath receiued of me & in case any of the sd persons shall refuse to
               pay or deliuer the seueral quantities of tobacco or any other speciã
               that they are indebted in & is due to me or at any time or times here
               after shall be due or payable to me contrary to the tennr of the
               prsents in the full & whole power strengh & authority to bring sue
               & psecute for me & in my name all & all manner of actions whotso
               euer as well reall as personall & the same to prosecute & follow by
               suite arrest imprissonment Judgmt condemnacon Execucon or other
               wise & one Attorney or more for the doeing of the prmises to make
               as if I my self ware personnally prsent In testimony here of I doe here
               unto subscribe my name & sett my seale this 19 of Jan Anno Dñi 1670
               Signed Sealed & deliured        Edw Leake
                before us                          seale 0
                   Will Hemsly
                   Isaac Winchester    Vera cop test P Sayer Cler

                Know all men by the prseflts tht I John Cooper of the County of
               talbott in the prouince of Maryland planter do Authorise consti
               tute & appoint my trusty & well beloued fnind Charles de la Roche of
               the County of kent my true & lawfull attorney for me & in my name
               to aske demand & receiue all the tobacco tht is to to me by bill or other
               wayes and in case of none paymt of the tobacco to sue arrest impris
               son att his owne pleasure to release & to giue discharges as firmly &
         [fol. 51]  effectually as I ware personnally present & whot whotsoeuer my Sayd
               Attorny shall lawfully doe in the prmises aforesd I shall ratifye and
               confirme to be good In Wittnesse where of I haue hereunto sett my
               hand & seale the 4th day day January Annoq Dñi 1670/71
               Signed sealed & deliured        John Cooper
                In the prsence of us               seale 0
                   John Wright
                      the marke of
               Laurance A Arnell      Vera cop Test P Sayer Cler

                The Deposition of Roger Price aged about 31 yeares
                Sayeth tht on new yeares day last being late in the euening Witt
               Dauis came in & requiring helpe of W Francis Pyne to huske some
               corne for he had bin there long enough & mr Pyne sd he should haue
               it with all his hart soe goeing out sd to the wench hussy giue me my
               clothes ptsently after Mr Pynes man Robt Boise came & sayed tht the
               sayed Dauis was foule of Cristopher soe other company being there
               they went all forth then I followed forth after them & saw them
               both downe one the ground and was bloudy att his lip wich was hurt
               & further sayeth not              Roger Price