76        Provincial Court Proceedings, 1666.

         Liber FF Joyntly and seuerally to be Our true and law full Attorneys for us and
         [p. 317] in Our names And to Our Uses to ask sue for Leauy require recouer

              & receiue of all and euery person and persons wtsoeuer all & euery such
              debts and sumes of money as are now due and Owing unto us or
              which att any day or dayes time or times hereafter shall be due and
              oweing belonging or appertaining unto Us by any manner of wayes
              or meanes wtsoeuer Giuing and Granting unto my said Attorneys
              by the tenor of these prsents Our full and whole power strength and
              Authority in and about the prmisses, and upon the Receipt of any
              such debts and sumes of money aforesaid accquittances or other dis-
              charges for us and in Our names to make seale and deliuer, and all
              & euery other Act and Acts thing and thinges deuice and deuices in
              the law whatsoeuer needfull and Necessary to be done in or about
              the premisses for the Recovery of any such debts and sumes of money
              as aforesaid, for us and in Our names to do execute and performe
              as fully largely & amply in euery respect to all intents Construccons
              & purposes as or selues might or Could doe as if wee were prsonally
              prsent, Ratifying allowing holding firme and stable all and whatso-
              euer Our said Attorneys shall doe or Cause to be done in or about the
              Execucon of the same by uertue of theig prsents, In wittnes whereof
              Wee haue hereunto sett Our hands & seales this 6th day of Aprill 1666
              Signed sealed and deliuered marke of
          In the prsence of            Thomas T Frost (seald)
                   Caesar Wheeler          marke of
                     marke of          Thomas   Touey (seald)
                   John  Williams          marke of
                   Edward Sauage       Thomas T Smyth (seald)
              The abouesaid letter of Attorney was by the partyes acknowledged
              and desire it may be recorded mee Dan: Jenifer

       [P. 318] Thomas Frost Thomas Touey] The defendt by his Attorney deliuers
              and Tho: Smith plaintiffs in his Answere to the foregoeing dec-
              Sampson Waring defendt laracon (uizt)
              To The Rigt Honble the Gouernot & Councell of Maryland
                The humble answere of Sampson Waring to the humble petn of
              Tho: Touey Tho: Frost & Tho: Smith
                The defendt saith that the pet” is uncertaine & insufficient and the
              matter therein Contained untrue, for that Robt Brassieur the elder
              late of Caluert County decd made none such his last will neither had
              the sd Robert Brassieur 300 acres of land to bequeath neither euer
              did Benjamin Brassieur his Brother sell the said Robert Brassieur
              300 acres of land, but that land whereupon the said Robert Brassieur
              dyed is and aliwayes haue been in the possession of Benja flrassieur
              And his heires euer since Mr Richard Bennitt sold that deuidend of
              land to Benjamin Brassieur and for further answere to the pet”, the
              defendant saith that sometime in January last past the said Touey
              Frost and Smyth by uertue of a Comcon from the Honble Gouernor