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      presents Constitute Ordeyne And Appoint my welbeloved ifreinds, Liber M M
      George Marshall & Thomas Doxey of the County & Province affore
      said To be my true & Lawfull Attornyes for me & in my name to
      Officiate Act or doe in any mater cause or thing whatsoeur which
      either now doth or hereafter shall or may in my Absence Apperteine
      or belong to me the said Brough, Giueing hereby ifull power &
      Authority to my said Attornyes to also Demand Recout & Receive
      by Virtue of Law or otherwayes whatsoever Corne Tobaccoe or
      otherwayes, which either now is due to me the said Brough P bill
      or Account or hereafter shall or may become to me due any way
      or from any pson or psons whatsoeur as also to Answer to all suites,
      Tryalls, sumffions, subpeanyes and all true & Just Debts or Demands
      to sattisfie or cause to Sattisfied out of what Tobacco or otherwayes
      shall or may Appeare to be due to me either by bill or accompt or
      out of my servants Cropps, or otherwayes whatsoever shall or may
      appeare to belong to me the said Brough or any pson Claymeing
      undt me to make Lawfull sayle of for sattisfaccön as afforesaid &
      not Else, As also to make other Attorney or Attornyes as they shall
      see Convenyent Rattifying for good Reall & Effectuall whatsoevr
      they shall in my behalf e Act or doe as necessary needfull and Re
      quisit to be Acted or done as if I my selfe psony were prsent, In
      Wittnesse hereof I have hereunto sett my hand & seale this second
      day of June, Anflo 1673
      Sealed Signed & Deliured in the    Joseph Brough. sealed
        prsence of us Thomas Potter
                        William Lovett,

        Caecilius Absolute Lord and Proprietary of Maryland &c. To our p.53
      Deare sonne Charles Calvert our Leivetenant of our said Province
      Whereas there hath beene Exhibited to us by Thomas Cornwalleys
      Esq One of the first Adventures to our said Province An Accompt
      under the hand of Nathaniell Styles late Sheriffe of our County of
      Baltemore in our said Province, wherein the said Thomas Cornwallys
      in the yeare of our Lord god One Thowsand six hundred & seaventy,
      was Debtor for Two Seates of Land Taken up by him in our said
      County of Baltemore Conteineing Two Thowsand Acres more or
      lesse, ifourteene pounds for the Rent of the said Land, ffive Pounds
      whereof the said Nathaniell Styles doth Acknowledge to haue Re
      ceiued, and the Remaynder being nyne pounds Wee doe hereby
      Acknowledge to haue receiued of the said Thomas Cornwallys and
      doe Acquitt him for the same, And ffurther wee Doe hereby Declare
      unto you that at the Humble Instance & Request of the sayd Thomas
      Cornwallyes and out of our speciall Loue & favour to him as one
      of our first & Principall Adventures to our said Province It is our
      will & Pleasure That the said Two Seates of Land Layd out for
      Two Thowsand Acres more or lesse, shall not be Graunted to any