24        Provincial Court Proceedings, 1666.

       Liber FF    putt John Emerson of the said Prouince my true & law full Attorney
              and Assignee for me & in my name and to my use to Aske recouer
              and Receiue of John Doughlas of Piciowaxon as Administrator to
              the Estate of Bridgett Heard all such sume and sumes of tobacco
              as was due from the said Bridgett unto the said Walter Story giuing
              and by these prsent Granting unto my sd Attorney full power to Act
              in the Premisses as if my self e were then prsonally prsent as wittnes
              my hand & seale this second day of Aprill 1666
              Signed sealed & deliuered    Walter Story (seald)
                In the prseflce of
                   Samuell Clarke
                              Wm Baker

                John Nuthall enters accon of debt agst Fortune Mittford the
              Administratrix of Bulmer Mittford for twelue hundred pounds of
              tobacco and Caske

        [p. 227]   Walter Story plt 1 The plt by his Attorney John Emerson pro-
                Jno Doughias Admt of duceth his foregoeing power wth the Ob-
                Bridgett Heard deftj ligacon and Craues Judgmt thereon
                The defendant Con fesseth Judgmt for the principle being Eighte
              Thowsand One hundred and twenty foure pounds of tobacco and
              Caske, which by the plaintiffs Attorney was accepted of and sattis-
              fyed fully therewth

              Demetrius Cartwright plt The plt not appearing resplted untill to-
              Tho: Bowdell defendant fmorrow morning

              John Gittings plaintiffe The defendant put's in his answere by his
              Henry Banister and Attorney Jno MoreCroft on the back of
                Christian his wife deftj the ensueing declaracon thus (not Guilty)
                John Gittings of Fosberry in the County of St Marys declares
              agst Henry Banister and Christian his wife of Causein in st Georges
              Hundred in the County aforesaid for that whereas Daniel Clocker
              of St Marys in the County of St Marys and Mary his wife by theire
              Indentures bearing date the 19th day of December 1665 leased unto
              the said John Gittings the moyety of a Freehould Called Causein
              aforesaid Containing fifty acres all Howses Edifices Garden and
              Orchard wth the Appurtenances in St Georges Hundred in the County
              aforesaid To haue and to hould the same to him the said John
              Gittings and his Assignes from the day of the sealing and deliuery
              of the said Endenture untill the full end & terme of 7 yeares to be
              Compleate and ended by uertue of which lease the said John Gittings
              into the said fifty acres of land entred and was thereof possessed and
              being soe thereof possessed the same Henry and Christian afterwards