492       Provincial Court Proceedings, 1669—70.

        Liber jj   erally to doe Execute per forme fullfill and finish all and whatsoever
              else shalbe needfull and necessary to be done in or about the premises
              Rate fyeing Confirming and allowing all and whatsoever our said
              Attorney shall doe cause or procure to be done in the premises by
              vertu of these presents, To be as good and Effectuall in the Law as
              if we or any or Either of us had done the same in our owne psons,
              In witnes whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seales Dated
              the third day of July, Anno Regni Carro!i secundi nunc Angt &c
              vicessimo primo Annop Domini 1669.
              Sealed and Delivered      Tho: Yate (Sealed)
               in the presence of       Richard Yate (Sealed)
                  Anthony Murrey Joseph Fincher (Sealed)
                  Robert Dowdinge Henry Daniell (Sealed)
                  Thomas Hartwell Notus Publus   John Smith (Sealed)

              March 5th 1669.
               Let it be remembred that the day and yeare abovesaid came James
              Ricards of Maryes County before Phi!!ip Calvert and William
              Calvert Esps two of the Justices of the Provinciall Court, of the
              Province of Maryland, and did freely of his owne accord acknowl-
              edge this agreement hereafter mentioned to be made betwixt him
              the said James Rickards, and John Morecroft of the same County
              gentleman.
               That it is agreed by and betweene them, that whereas the said
              James Rickards hath to serve to Thomas Dent gentt two yeares and
              Tenne moneths and the said John Morecroft hath Exchanged with
              the said Thomas Dent one man servant named Henry Hickson have-
              ing five yeares to serve, That in case the said John Morecroft doe and
              shall make a firme and absolute cure of the leg of the said James
              Rickards then the said James is to serve the said John Morecroft
              for the full Terme that the said Henry was to serve, and if the said
        [p. 43]    John Morecroft doe not make a firme and absolute cure thereof then
              the said James is to serve him the Terme only of two yeares and
              Tenne Moneths, and at the End of the said Terme to have the
              Custome of the Country, In witnes whereof both partyes have here-
              unto subscribed their names before the Justices abovenamed the day
              and yeare abovewnitten.  James Rickards
              This agreement was acknowledged    John Morecroft
               the day & yeare abovesaid before us
                  Phillip Calvert
                  William Calvert

               Know all men by these Presents that I William Parrot of Tre-
              daven Creeke in Talbot County in the Province of Maryland doe
              acknowledge myself to have received of John Smith and Company
              of Bristoll, one bond of John Clemans for Eight Thowsand three
              hundred and forty nine pounds of Tobacco in caske and one bill of