Provincial Court Proceedings, 1674/5. 471




      to recover & receive any summe or summes of mony tobacco or other Liber M M
      estate or effects anywayes due or payable to me by or from any per
      son or estate in Virginia or Maryland aforesaid Giveing & hereby
      granting unto my said Attorny all my power & authority to sue
      implead attach arrest imprison & extend upon as need shall require
      the persons or estates of any that shall upon any colour or pretence
      whatsoever deteine from me or make denyall of payment to my said
      Attorny of Such Summes of mony tobacco or any other estate and
      againe upon the composition or satis faction received Such persons or
      estates to release and discharge And finally I doe Authorize and im
      power my Said Attorny to doe performe & execute every lawfull Act
      & thing with reference unto or prosecution of the prmisses that I my
      Selfe might I personally present hereby ratifleing allowing & con
      firming all that my Said Attorny or any by him deputed or substi
      tuted shall Legally doe or cause to be done Wittnes my hand & seale
      this twenty [eth] day of November 1664 Annop Regni Caroli Vices
      simo Sext.
      Sealed & delivered         Ri. Wharton (Seale)
        in prsence of
        Samuel Hall
    Ben: Ganson        On the backside of the abovesaid Letter of
       Ephraim Very Attorny is written thus.
            his marke.
           March 22th 1674.
        The within written Letter of Attorny was by the within named
      Richard Wharton in the presence of Benjamin Ganson and Ephraim
      Very witnesses thereunto signed Sealed and delivered as his Act &
      deed as by the Oathes of the wittnesses taken before me the day and
      yeare abovesaid                  Will Calvert.

      ffebruary 12th 1674.
        Upon the Petition of John Grammar of Calvert County that
      whereas there was two judgments obtained out of this Court against
      him One at the suite of Samuel Winslow for three thousand pounds
      of tobacco & the other at suite of Richard Gibbs for the summe with
      costs of suite and thereupon execution issued to the Sheriff of the
      County aforesaid thereby commanding him to take the Petitioners
      body and him to have here the ninth day of this instant ffebruary and
      the Petitioner being now removed into the Custody of the Sheriff of
      St Maries County untill he hath rendred satisfaction for the said
      executions and the prison of St Maries County lyeing remote from
      your petitioners affaires and habitation and being compelled for his
      release to sell his estate prayeth Order that he may be removed againe
      into the Custody of the said Sheriff of Calvert County he being
      there neere his businesse and that he may thereby Sell his goods to
      the best advantage