Provincial Court Proceedings, 1679/80. 301

of Two hundred thirty two pounds ffoure shillings and three pence
Sterl: Whereupon a Certaine Comission issued out of the Prov^ll
Court Bearing date the Seaventeenth day of May in the ffifth yeare
of the Dominion of the Right hono^ble Charles &c over his said Prov-
ince of Maryland Annoq Domini 1680 Unto Majo^r Charles Boteler
and Cap^t Thomas Clagget of Calvert County gentl directed Author-
izeing and impowering us the said Charles Boteler and Thomas
Clagget Audito" to audite state and Examine the account of the said
Edward Gibbs to the said Arthur Sawyer for the sume aforesaid
and to the End aforesaid, The said Commission also giveing authority
to us the said Audito" to meete at such time and place when and as
often as to us the said Audito^rs should seeme Meete and Convenient,
and that the said Edwd Gibbs should then and there attend us the
said Audito^rs from day to day untill his said acco^t bee fully audited
Examined and stated, and when the same should bee audited stated
and Examined by us as aforesaid that then wee the said audito^r
should make Report thereof unto Yo^r hono^r att the next Provinciall
Court to bee held att the Citty of S^t Maryes the ffifth day of Octob^r
next Ensueing und^r yo^r hands and seales as by the said Comission
hereunto Annexed may appeare
By vertue of w^ch said Comission and in obedience to his Honob^le
Court Wee the said Charles Boteler and Thomas Clagrgret haveingr
taken Upon us the Charge of the said Audite, did appointe to meete
at the house of Benjamin Lawrence of the said County of Calvert
to audite state and Examine the accounts aforesaid Upon the last
day of August in the Yeare of our Lord 1680, and haveing given
due notice thereof unto the said Edward Gibbs his Procurato^rs and
Attornyes then and there to appeare for the purpose aforesaid.
Upon w^ch said last day of August Came as well the said Arthur
Sawyer by George Parker his Attorney and the said Edward Gibbs
in his prop pson, and the said Edward Gibbs then and there did Con-
fesse himself to bee Receiver of the goods Wares Marchandizes and
Tobaccoes of the said Arthur Sawyer to the Vallue aforesaid, and
that for the same hee ought to acco^t, And further sayth that for the
said Two hundred thirty two pounds ffoure shillings and three pence
sterling hee did purchase Tobacco in this Province for the prop
acco^t of the said Arthur Sawyer at the rate of Tenn Shillings Six
pence sterling p hundred w^ch in the whole doth amount to the sume
of fforty foure thousand Two hundred Seaventy Seaven pounds of
Tobacco, And Prayeth that from thence forth hee may bee charged
(instead of the said sume of Two hundred thirty two pounds foure
shillings & three pence ster) onely w^th the aforesaid Sume of fforty
foure Thousand Two hundred seaventy seaven pounds of Tobacco,
w^ch by the said George Parker Attorney for the said Arthur Sawyer
was in noe wise gainsayed or denyed. Thereupon the said Edward
Gibbs Exhibited his acco^t unto the said Arthur Sawyer and therein

Liber W. C.

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