372  Provincial Court Proceedings, 1674.




         Liber M M  any other Attorny or Attornyes if it Shall be thought convenient by
                 my Said Attorny and whatsoever my Said Attorny shall lawfully
                 act or doe in or about the premisses I doe by these presents ratifie
                 confirme and allow of to all intents and purposes as if I my Self e
                 were personally present I wittnes of the Same I have hereunto Sett
                 my hand and Seale the 13 day of August 1674.
          Signed Sealed and delivered        Signum
                   Coram me John West.  Hugh Roy (Sealed)
                      Thomas Young
                      John Waters.       December the 11th 1674.
                                   The abovesaid Letter of Attorny was in
                                   Open Court by the Oath of Thomas
                                   Young One of the witnesses thereunto
                                   proved to be the Act and Deed of the
                                   said Hugh Roy.

           p. 281 Thomas Bland Thomas Gant of Calvert County Victualler other
                    agt [wi]se called Thomas Gant of Petuxent River in
               Thomas Gant Calvert County Gent w [as] Sumoned to answer unto
                           Thomas Bland One of the Attornyes &c in a plea
                           of Debt.
                   And whereupon the Said Thomas Bland in his Proper person
                 Saith that whereas the Said Thomas Gant the tenth day of August
                 1672 by his certaine writeing Obligatory Sealed with the Seale of
                 the Said Thomas Gant here in Court produced whose date is the
                 day and yeare abovesaid became obliged unto the Said Thomas
                 Bland in the full Sume of Six pounds mony Sterling to be paid
                 in peices of eight at five Shillings P peice to be paid the last day
                 of December then next following unto the Said Thomas Bland Not
                 withstanding the Said Thomas Gant the Said Six pounds mony
                 Sterling in peices of eight at five shillings P peice hath not paid and
                 performed according to the Said writeing Obligatory but doth al
                 together refuse to pay the Same whereupon the Said Thomas Bland
                 Saith he is dampnified and hath lost to the value of ten pounds
                 Sterling mony of England whereupon he brings his suite
                   And the Said Thomas Gant by Robert Carvile his Attorny cometh
                 and defendeth the force and injury when &c and prayeth liberty of
                 Speakeing hereunto untill the first day of the next Provinciall Court
                 and it is granted unto him and the same day is given to both parties
                 here.
                   Now here at this day to witt the ninth day of December in the
                 43th yeare of his Lopps Dominion &c Came the said Thomas Gant
                 by Robert Carvile his Attorny but the Said Thomas Bland came not
                 to prosecute his action aforesaid whereupon the Said Thomas Gant
                 prayed a non suite might be awarded against him which was accord
                 ingly granted by the Court here and that the Said Thomas Bland