Provincial Court Proceedings, 1669—70.   491

     estate of the said Armstrong Notwithstanding his Obligation is under Liber JJ
     his hand and seale past to your Petitioner for the said debt being
     one of the highest nature yet refused to be satisfied by John pltt
     who married the relict of the said Armstrong
       Wherefore your petitioner Humbly prayes your Honrs to grant
     him an Order for his said debt against the said pltt which will other-
     wise prove too late for recovering the same to his great damage and
     detriment And yr petitioner shall ever pray &c.

       Upon reading the abovesaid Petition to witt the xxith day of De-
     cember in the xxxviiith yeare of the Dominion of Caecilius &c Annoq
     MDClxix came the said John pltt in his proper person and saith
     nothing why judgment for the debt aforesaid should not be granted
     against him.
       Therefore it is considered by the justices here that the said Thomas
     Ingram recover against the said John pltt the said quantity of six
     thousand five hundred pounds of tobacco and the said John pltt stand
     undefended

       Know all men by these presents That we Thomas Yate Richard [p. 42]
     Yate Joseph Fincher Henry Daniell and John Smith, all of the Citty
     of Bristoll owners of the good Ship called the Submission of Bristoll
     of the Burthen of Seaventy Tonns or thereabouts now lyeing within
     the Port of Bristoll, have, and Every and Either of us hath made
     assigned ordained authorized apointed and Deputed, and in our places
     and steeds by these presents have put, and constituted our loving
     frend Robert Nicklas of the Citty of Bristoll Marriner, our true
     and law full Attorney for us & in our names and steeds, and to and
     for our only proper use and behoofe, To aske demand Leavy sue f or
     Recover and receive of and from William Parrat of Tredaven Streete
     in Talbot County in the Province of Maryland, wheresoever he can
     or may be had or found, or of his heires Executours or Adminis-
     trators, all such goods & Marchandizes as were left in the hands and
     Custody of the said William Parrot by the said John smith to sell and
     dispose of for him the said John smith and our accompts, As by a
     noate or Receipt under the hand and seale of the said William Par-
     rat, bearing date the xxviith day of February last paste 1668 may
     more at large appeare, Giving and by these presents graunting unto
     our said Attorney our full power, good right and lawfull Authority
     in the prmises the said William Parrat his heires Executours or
     Administrators, or his or their goods or Chattells to sue arrest attach
     declare impleade Condemne and imprison, and out of prison againe
     to deliver or cause to be delivered, and to give acquittances or other
     discharges in our names to make seale & deliver as our acts and
     deeds Attorney also or Attorneys one or more under him to make
     and substitute, and the same againe at pleasure to Revoake, And gen