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        & behoofe to Aske demand Sue for Leavy recover & receive all Liber N N
        such Sume & Sumes of money Goods Wares Mrchandizes debts
        dues & demands whatsoever which are due oweing or belonging
        to my said Husband or myselfe or deteyned from us by William
        ffoord now Inhabitant in great Choptank in Maryland either by bill
        bond booke Accompt or otherwise for any matter or cause what-
        soever or by any other wayes or meanes whatsoever Giveing &
        hereby Granting unto my said Attorney full power & law full Author-
        ity in the prmisses the said Wm ffoord his Execrs & Admistrs & his
        their & every of their Goods & Chattells to plaint Sue Arrest Attach
        declare Implead imprison cause to be Condemned & out of Prison
        to deliver Letters of Acquittance & other sufficient discharge in
        both or one of our names to make Seale & Execute Attorneys one
        or more under him to sett & Substitute & the same att his pleasure
        to revoke And to use all other lawfull wayes & meanes in Order
        to the recovery of the same And further to conclude & make Corn-
        posicofi touching the prmisses And generally to doe & Execute all
        such further & other Acts & things as shall be need full & necessary
        to be done in Execucon of the prmisses & that as Effectually in every
        respect as my said Husband or I myselfe might doe if we were
        personally prsent Ratifying & allowing all & whatsoeuer my said At-
        torney shall doe or cause To be done in the prmisses by these prsents p. ‘39
        In Wittness whereof I the said Rachell Teate have hereunto sett my
        hand & Seale the fourteenth day of Septembr in the Eight & Twen-
        tieth yeare of the Reigne of our Sovereigne Lord King Charles the
        second over England &c Annoq Doni 1676.
        Sealed & deliuered in the prsence of    Rachell Teate (sealed)
          Wm Trego Wm Sankoe Geo: Sillivan Jno Luffe
          Underneath the aforegoing Letter of Attorney was written Vizt
        23th Novembr 1676
          Wm Trego one of the Wittnesses hereunto came before me &
        made Oath that he saw the aforesaid Rachell Teate Seale & as her
        Act & Deed deliver the above Written Letter of Attorney
                                        Thoma Notley
          Know all men by these prsents That I Joseph Byles of Shastone
        in the County of Dorsett Wchant haue made Assigned Ordained
        Authorized Deputed & Appointed & in my stead & place by these
        prsents haue putt & Constituted my welbeloved friend Mr Stephen
        Luffe of the Citty of Bristoll Mtchant my true & lawfull Attorney
        for me & in my name & stead & to my use to aske Levy demand
        recover require & receive of Wm Mackdowell on the Clifts in Mary-
        land Planter Eight & Twenty hundred of tobacco which he oweth
        to me, & of ffrancis Roberts of Dam-quarter in Maryland Planter
        nine hundred forty two pounds Weight of tobacco which he oweth
        to me Giveing & by these prsents Granting to my said Attorney my
        whole & full power and Authority in the prmisses to Sue Arrest