168       Provincial Court Proceedings, 1676.

           Liber N N  doeing thereof And all & whatsoever my said Attorney shall or may
                  doe or cause to be done in & about the prmisses I doe Covenant &
                  promise to Allow Ratifye & Confirme by these prsents In Wittnes
                  whereof I have hereunto sett my hand & Seale the tenth day of
                  Octobr in six & Twentieth yeare of the Reigne of our Sovereigne
                  Lord King Charles the second over England &c Anno One Thousand
                  six hundred Seaventy foure.
                  Testes James Winsor Wm Adames Wm Sanders (sealed)
                  James Winsor made Oath, that he saw Wm Sanders Signe Seale &
                   deliver this as his Act & Deed   Sworne before me this seaventh
                                         day of August 1676
                                                   Philip Calvert

                         p. 106 April the 8th 1676
                    Upon the Petition of Ann Burges of st Maries County That she
                  had Letters of Administration granted her upon her Husbands es-
                  tate, and Thomas Courtney and Thomas Price being appointed Ap-
                  praisers of the Said estate have not allowed the Petitioner the allow-
                  ance for poore widdowes. haveing herselfe and two small Children
                  to mainteine. Whereupon it is granted by the Court here that the
                  said Ann Burges be allowed her Such allowance as is comonly al-
                  lowed poore widdowes.

                  Wm  King William Dare Administrator of all and Singular
                    agt the goods Chattells and Creditts of John Parker
                  Wm Dare admr Merchant deceased was attached to answer unto
                  John Parker. William King of a plea of trespass upon the case.
                               And whereupon the Said William King by
                  Keneim Cheseldyn his Attorny complaineth that whereas the Said
                  John Parker in the life time of the Said John that is to Say betweene
                  the Seven and twentith day of September in the yeare of Our Lord
                  1671 and the tenth day of August 1672 Stood indebted to the Said
                  William for accomodations at the house of the Said William and
                  Storage, and Severall Summes of tobacco disbursed by the Said
                  Wm by and for the proper use and the particular Order of the said
                  John, and diverse liquors and other goods delivered to and by the
                  particular order of the Said John by the Said William the Summe
                  of twenty two thousand five hundred and three pounds of tobacco,
                  a particular whereof is by the said [William] here in Court pro-
                  duced, the said John Parker did assume upon himself e and to the
                  Said William did faithfully promise that he the Said John the said
                  Summe of twenty two thousand five hundred and three pounds of
                  tobacco to him the said William when thereunto required would
                  well and truly content and pay Neverthelesse the Said John Parker
                  in his life time nor the Said William Dare Since his death to whom
                  administration of all and Singular the goods Chattells and Creditts