Provincial Court Proceedings, 1666. 55

     beloved freind Edward Pence Master of the good shipp called the Liber FF
     Golden Fortune to be my true and lawfull Attorney for me & in
     my name & to my use to aske sue for levy require recoU & receiue
     of William Groome of Petuxent in the Province of Maryland his
     heirs Executors Admrs or Assignes one thousand two hundred pounds
     of leaue tobacco in caske as itt Riseth from the growth of the Ar-
     ranocoe sort from my plantacon and one thousand pounds of leave
     tobacco of the best sweet sented in caske from the growth of my
     Plantacon and like wise to receive Thirty nine pounds one shilling
     and foure pence for the Goods my said Attorney delivered into
     the hands of the said William Groome the last yeare and alsoe to
     receive what he will pay you of the debts that was left in his
     hands by John London Givein and by theis pnts Granting unto my
     said Attorney my full and whole power strenght and Authoryty in
     and about the premisses and upon the Receipt of any such Goods
     debts sufhe or Sumes of money aforesaid accquittances or other
     discharges for mee and in my name to make Seale and deliver and
     all and Every other Act and Acts thing and things Device and
     Devices in the law whatsoever needfull and necessary to be done
     in and about the premisses for the Recouy of all or any such Goods
     Debts Sume or sumes of money as aforesaid for me and in my
     name to doe Execute and performe as fully !arg!y and amptly in [p. 280]
     every respect to all intents Construccons and purposes as I my
     selfe might or could doe if I were psonally present ratifying allow-
     ing and holding firme and stable all and whatsoever my said Attor-
     ney shall lawfully doe or cause to be done in or about the Execucon
     of the premisses by vertue of theis presents In wittnes whereof I
     the said Job Nutt have hereunto Sett my hand and seale the Ninth
     day of October Anno Regni Caroli secundi nunc Anglia &c Decimo
     Septimo Annoq domini One thousand six hundred sixty and five
     Sealed and deliüded to the use of  Job Nutt (seale)
       Edward Pearss abovesaid in the
       presence of
          Thomas Ryme!l
          Abrã London
          Edward Lewis

       This Indenture made the five and twenty day of december Anno
     Dom One thousand six hundred sixty and five in the seaventeenth
     yeare of the Reigne of our Souigne lord King Charles the second
     of England Scotland France and Ireland Defendor of the Faith &c
     Betweene William Groome of Puttuxen in the Province of Maryland
     Planter on the one part and Job Nutt Cittizen and Grocer of Lon-
     don on the other part Wittnesseth that the said William Groome
     for and in consideracon of the Rent and Covenants herein after Re-
     served and conteyned on the behalfe of the said William Groome