436        Provincial Court Proceedings, 1669.

       Liber FF    Owing unto his Father Absolam Covant of the Citty of Bristoll
              marriner Giveing & by these presents Granting my full power &
              Authority to sue arest Attach declare Implead Condemne Imprison
              & Out of prison againe to deliver Or Cause to be delivered & also to
              make any Composition Accquittances to grant for the same for me
              & in my Stead as my Law full Act & Deed: Attornyes also more Or
              Lesse to substitute & the same againe to Revoake att pleasure &
              Generally to Act execute & per forme whatsoever shall be needfull in
              the aforesaid premisses as full & Ample as if my self e were Psonally
              prsent and also to sell & Dispose of any Or all such Pcells of Land as
              shall be made appeare to haue formerly Belonged to Absolon Covant
       [p.782]     Abouesaid and to make Good the sayles thereof & in all Cases Need-
              full herein to Act & doe for me as ample as If I my selfe were person-
              ally present Confirming & allowing all whatsoever my said Attorny
              shall doe Or Cause to be done by virtue of these presents to be as
              effectuall in the Law as if I had done the same in my Owne person
              In Wittnes Whereof I haue hereunto sett my hand & seale this 14th
              of may 1669                 John Covant (Sealed)
              Signed sealed & Delivered
                in the presence of
                   Philip Bisse
                   William Bysse
                            Richard Moy

                This Indenture made the tenth day of August in the yeare of Our
              Lord God One thousand six hundred sixty One Betweene William
              Calvert of Calverts Rest in the County of St maries Esq of the One
              party and Robert Hooper in the mannor of st michaels in the said
              County of St maries On the Other party Wittnesseth that the
              said William Calvert for divers Good Causes & Consideracs him
              thereunto espetially moueing hath for ever sold demised Granted &
              to farme Letten and by these presents doth for ever sell demise
              Grant & to farme Lett To him the said Robert Hooper his heires
              executors admrs Or assignes all & singuler his tenement Or plantacon
              Comonly Called & Knowne by the name of Hoopers plantacon Be-
              gining at a marked Oake standing neare the Line of the Widdow
              Potters Bounding On the north a line drawne east from the
              said Oake for the Lenght of ninty perches to a marked Oake that
              Standeth in a piny Swamp On the east Wth a line drawne South & by
              west from the said Oake for the Length of One hundred perches to
              a marked pine On the South wth a line drawne west south west from
              the end of the former Line to a marked white Oake tht standeth
              neare the Cleare Ground of Martin Kirke that Intersects a paralell
              Lyne drawne from a bound Oake that Standeth in a valley by the
              fence of the said Hooper that devideth his plantacon from the said
              potter On the west wth the paralell Containeing & now Laid Out for