84   Provincial Court Proceedings, 16 72/3.

        Liber M M  abovenamed haue hereunto Interchangably Set their hands and
                 Seales the day and yeare first abovewritten
          Sealed and Delivered in           the marke of
               the ptsence of. Tho. Innes   James fl Nuthall. Seale
                            Jn0 Blomfeild
                                    feb. the 13th 1672
                9 sds  Acknowledged in oppen Court by the abovenamed James
                       Nuthall the day & yeare abovesayd
                                        Robert Ridgely Cler. Cur. Prov.

                 Tho. Doxey plt I the said Defendt doe Ordeyne and Appointe
                 Tho. Griffith Def. Robert Carvile one of the Attorneyes of the
                              Provll Court, To be my Attorney to this Accön
                              and to put in such plea thereunto as he shall
                              thinke ffitt. Witnesse my hand this Eighth day
                              of ffebruary 1672. Thomas Griffin
                  Test. Kenelm Chiseldyn.

                  To all to whome these prsents shall come I John Woder Escp
                 Major of the Towne of Weymouth and Melcomb Regis in the
                 County of Dorset in England and one of his Ma :ties Justices of
                 peace & Quorum there send greeting Know yee that this prsent day
                 Edith Byat of the Towne aforesayd widdow the Relict of Theophilus
                 Byet late one of the Aldermen of ye said Towne her late husband
         Locus Sigilli deceased came before me and showed unto me a certeine writing
         Robert Carville in Parchmt signed Marcus Cortle Reg'terius to wch was affixed the
           of St. Maryes greate seale of the Prerogative Cort of Canterbury and a coppy of


                 the last will & Testamt of the said Theophilus Byet, By which said
         about a fort- writing it doth appeare that the said Edith hath made pbate of her

                 said husbands will, and that the Admcön of all the goods Chattels
         discoursing Right and Creddits which were her husbands at the time of his

         Depont about death are legally graunted unto her a true Coppy of wch said writ-
         this Instrurnt ing and Coppy of the said will I have at her Request hereunto an-

           this Dept nexed Know yee also that this same day the said Edith Byat and
         opening of ye John West of Dorchester in the said County of Dorset a pson well

             there- Knowne unto me did in my prseflce signe seale & Deliver as their
             did acci- Act & Deed the Letter of Attorney hereto also annexed making one

         dentally fall William Dare their law full Attorney to doe severall acts for them
         off from ye and either of them in Virginia and Maryland In Testimoney whereof

         any force or I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seale of Majoralty
         violence used .
         toy same. of the Towne aforesayd the three & twentieth day of September in
         Sworne this 7th of April the 24th yeare of the Reigne of Or Sovereign Lord Charles the

         1673 before Second by the grace of God King of England Scotland ffrance &
             Philip Ireland defendr of the faith &c Annoq3 Domini 1672.
            Calvert.

                                          John Wooder Major.





































































                                          John Wooder Major.