296        Provincial Court Proceedings, 1676.

           Uber N N Gentlemen: I doe Hereby Constitute & Appoint you & Either of
                  you to be my Attorneys to plead & secure & defend all Accons by me
                  psecuted or psecuted against me in any Court in this Province of
                  Maryland And to doe & Act therein as to you Shall Seeme fitt And
                  for yor Soe doeing Shall be yor sufficient warrant And I doe hereby
                  promise & Engage my Selfe you yor Just & due ffees As Wittnes my
                  hand & Seale this Ninth day of december One thousand Six hundred
                  Seauenty Six              Edward Man (Sealed)
                 To Mr Matthew Ward & Robert Carvile
                     attorneys of the Provinciall Court
                    Sealed & delivered in the prsence of
                       Wm Crosse John Deery

                    Sr These are to Avise you that I doe Suppose I shall haue A
                  Cause depending in the next Provinciall Court after this therefore
                  I Shall desire you And the Attorney Generall likewise not to take
                  any ffee against me for I Shall be yor Clyent This being the needfull
                  att prsent I remaine Sr
                                  Yor very Loueing ffreind: Samuel Tovy
                 Chester River the two & twentyeth
                     of November 1676

                 Thomas Cosden 1 George Oldfeild late of Calvert County Gentle-
                     agt man otherwise called George Oldfeild of Caeci!l
                George Oldfeild J    County in the Province of Maryland was Suth-
                              oned to Answer unto Thomas Cosden of A plea
                  that he render unto him the quantity of Three Thousand Three hun-
                  dred & Seaventy pounds of good Sound Merchantable Tobacco &
                  Caske which he Oweth him & unjustly deteineth
                    And whereupon the said Thomas Cosden by George Parker his
                  Attorney Saith That whereas the said George Oldfeild the Thirtyeth
                  day of Janry in the yeare of our Lord God One Thousand Six hun-
                  dred Seaventy & four by his Certaine Bill obligatory Sealed with
                  the Seale of him the said George Old feild & here in Court produced
                  whose date is the day and yeare first abouesaid Did owe & was in-
                  debted unto Thomas Cosden of Calvert Towne in the County afore-
                  said Innholder for A valuable Consideracon already receiued the
                  quantity of Three Thousand Three hundred & Seauenty Pounds of
                  good Sound Merchantable Leafe tobacco & Caske to be paid upon
                  all demands unto the Said Thomas Cosden his heyres Execrs Admrs
                  or Assignes att Some Convenient Landing neare the water side in
                  Petuxent River To the which payment well & truly to be made &
                  performed he the Said George Oldfeild did binde himself e his heyres
                  Execrs & Admrs firmly by those prsents Notwithstanding which the
                  said George Oldfeild the Said Sume of Three Thousand Three
                  hundred & Seauenty pounds of tobacco according to the tennor of