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         good Sound Merchantable Tobacco & Caske, which Said Sume of Liber N N
         six thousand pounds of tobacco aforesaid I acknowledge my selfe
         in ye name & names of the said Nicholas Smart Thomas Dilley
         Henry Smart Richard Sturton William Harris Thomas Angle
         Joseph Manders Henry Hamonds & Richard Wicker to be truely &
         fully Satisfied Contented & Paid in full of all wages & Demands
         whatsoever belonging or any wayes apperteining to the Said Sea-
         men And thereof and every part & parcell thereof doe clearly &
         freely acquit & discharge ye Said William Dare his Execrs Admrs
         & Assignes by these prsents And alsoe for Divers other good Causes
         & valueable Considerãcons me the Said Richard Bayley thereunto
         Especially moueing haue Remised Released & for ever quit Claimed
         & by these prsents doe Remise Release & for ever quit Claime unto
         ye Said William Dare his heires Execrs & Admrs & ye heires & As-
         signes of ye Said John Parker And ye owners of the Said Shipp or
         Pinke And theire heires Execrs Admrs & Assignes all & all manner
         of Accon & Accons Cause & Causes of Accons Suites both in Law &
         Equity bills bonds writeings obligatory debts dutyes Accompts Sume
         & Sumes of Money Sume & Sumes of Tobacco Judgemts Executions
         Extents quarrells Recognizances trespasses Controversies & De-
         mands & all & Euery other matter Cause or thing whatsoever which
         against ye Said William Dare I ever had or by the Authority afore-
         said in ye name or names of the Said Severall & Respectiue pson
         or psons aforesaid I ever had or which I my heires Execrs Admrs or
         Assignes Shall or niay haue Claime Challenge or demand for or
         by Reason meanes or occation of any matter Cause or thing what-
         soever from ye beginning of ye world unto the day of the date of
         these prsents In Witnes whereof I the Said Richard Bayley haue
         hereunto Set my hand & Seale Dated ye Sixteenth day of ffebTy in
         ye forty fourth yeare of the Dominion of the Right Honrble Caecilius
         Absolute Lord & proprietary of ye Provinces of Maryland & Avalon
         Lord Barron of Baltcmore &c Annoq Dom 1675
        Sealed & Delivered in ye     Richard Bayley (Sealed)
             prsence of
         Richard Keene John Keene
         George Masson: William Kinge
  On ye Backside of ye Aboue mentioned release was writt (vizt)
         Maryland:: Being Deputed by mr Henry Darnell High Sheriffe of
         Calvert County I arrested Richard Bayly in ye Sute of William
         Dare ye first munday after ye Provincll Court held in ffebry 1675 &
  Mem yt the ye Said Richard Bayly was Discharged from me ye day following
  said Richd          aboute ten of ye Clock in ye morning     George Masson
  Bayly was
  not prsent in      Memoranda the Seaventeenth day of ffebry Anno one thousand
  Court when       six hundred Seaventy flue the within named Richard Bayly did
  this release       .     .    . .
  was proved. Signe Seale & Deliver the within written release as his Act & Deed