586       Provincial Court Proceedings, 1670.

       Liber jj   such satisfaction as aforesaid as fully & largely as we our selves
             might or could doe being psonally prsent And we doe hereby Con-
             firme & Allow all & whatsoever or Said Attorney shall doe or cause
             to be done in the prmisses by force of these prsents In witnes whereof
             we have hereunto sett or hands and seals the nine & twentyth day of
             August In the yeare of our Lord God one thowsand six hundred &
             seaventy.                    John West for my
             Signed sealed & Delivered    self & ptner (Sealed)
                  John Cox
                  John Batten
                  Richard Mocker
             Memorandum the above written Letter of Attorney pved by John
             Cox & Richard Mocker witnesses to the same before me the seaventh
             Day of February 1670              Charles Calvert

               To the Rt Honorable the Lt Generall & the Rest of the honoble
             Councell
               The humble peticion of James Lewis and Thomas Harpin Humbly
             sheweth,
               Whereas samuell signe servant to the aforesaid James Lewis hath
             absented himself from the said Lewis his service for fowerteene
             weekes as the said Lewis can depose upon his oath these are there-
             fore to Desire your honor, and the honoble bench to consider what
             time the said servant is to serve for the time he hath beene absent
             from his Masters service as aforesaid & yor petr shall Ever pray.

               In open Court, upon Reading of this peticon It was acknowledged
             by James Lewis that samuell signe should serve the said Thomas
             Harpin all the time he is to serve him by Indenture made betweene
             them, and also that the said signe shall serve him for the fowerteene
             weekes he Deserted his service, according to the Custome of this
             Province and as his Lopp and his Councill shall order concerning the
             same.                  By the Court
                                      Thomas Cakewood Cler Cur.

        [p. 128] To all xpian People To Whome This prsent Writinge shall Come
             Wee Thomas Jones of St Maries County in the Province of Mary-
             land Planter and Henry Matthews of the Same County Joyner send
             Greetinge in Or Lord God Everlastinge Know yee That wee said
             Thomas Jones and Henry Matthewes for and in Consideracon of the
             sume or Quantity of Twelve Thousand poundes of good sound &
             Marchanttable Tobaccoe & Caske to us in hande paid by Daniell
             Jenifer of the Citty of St Maries Gentl The Receipt whereof wee
             Doe heereby Acknowledge & thereof & of eüy parte thereof Doe for
             us or Executors and Admistrators forever Exonerate acquitt and
             Discharge him the said Daniell Jenifer his heires Executors and Ad-