552        Provincial Court Proceedings, 1670.

         Liber JJ   trusty freind Mr Thomas paine of the County of st Maries in the
               aforesaid province to be my true and lawfull Attorny for me and in
               my name and to my use to aske demand sue for recover and receive
               of and from Capt Josias Fendall a Conveyance for two thousand
               ackers of land lyeing in the County of Baltemore with an acknowledg-
               ment in Court Giveing and granting unto my said Attorny my full
               power and authority in and about the premisses to act execute and
               performe as & my selfe might or could doe being personally present
         [p. 96]    And I doe promise to ratifie allow and approve of all and whatso-
               ever my said Attorny shall doe and cause to be done in and about
               the premisses by virtue of these presents In wittnesse whereof I have
               hereunto sett my hand and sea! this 18th day of march Anno Doth
              1669.                         Jno Vanheeck (seal)
          •    Signed sealed and delivered
          in the presence of Us
                    Rob Williams
                    James Kastell
               The abovewritten Letter of Attorny was by Robert Williams One of
               the wittnesses thereunto in Open Court proved April the 16th 1670.

                 Know all men by these presents That Wee John peerce of the
               County of Calvert Chirurgeon and John Anderton of the County of
               Talbott Gent are holden and firmly bound unto William Calvert of
               the County of St Maries Esq his heirs or assignes in the full and
               just summe of twenty thousand pounds of good sound merchantable
               tobacco and to be paid to the said William Calvert or to his centaine
               Attorny his executors administrators or assignes To which payment
               well and truly to be made wee bind Us and either of Us by Our selves
               for the whole and in the whole Our and every of Our heirs executors
               admrs & assignes and every of them firmly by these presents sealed
               with our seales Dated the sixtenth in the xxxviiith yeare of the
               Dominion of Caecilius &c Annoq Doth 1670.
                 The Condition of this Obligation is such that if the abovebounden
               John Peence and John Anderton their heirs or assignes or either
               or any of them doe and shall from time to time and at a!! times
               well and truly appeare and make satisfaction for all and singular the
               goods and Chattells now in the hands of Raymond Stapelfort which
               shall appeare to be the goods of Richard Meekins and Johannah his
               wife or either of them if the heirs of Richard Miller doe come and
               lay claime to the same and likewise save and keepe harmlesse and
               undampnifled the abovenamed William Calvert his heirs or assignes
               for delivering the same That then this present Obligation to be void
               or else to remaine in full force power and virtue
               Signed sealed and deliveredJohn Peerce (seale)
                in the prsence ofJohn Anderton (seale)
                    Thomas Not!cy
                   Tho:  Brooke