42        Provincial Court Proceedings, 1666.

        Liber FF   presents In wittness whereof I haue hereunto sett my hand & seale
               this 23d day of March 1665
               Signed sealed & deliuered Tho: Ringgould (seald)
                In the prsence of Us
                   William Smyth
                   Edward Sauage
               Prou'd in Open Court by William Smyth and Edward Sauage
               wittnesses

                Bee it knowne unto all men by these prsents That I Anthony
               Furs in the County of Talbott plantr doe Constitute and Ordaine
               mr Thomas Hinson of the County aforesaid my true and lawfull
               Attorney in any Case or Cases wtsoeuer in any Court or Courts of
               this Prouince wherein I am either plt: or defendt and whatsoeuer
               my said Attorney shall lawfully doe in my behalfe in either prose-
               cuting imprisonninge Releasing Compounding or Agreeing I doe
               binde my sel fe my heires Executors and Administrators to Confirme
               & allow to all intents and purposes wtsoeuer as done by my self e
               in person, as wittnes my hand this 25th march 1666
               Test John Morgan               Anthony A P Purs
                  John Lane                       his signe

                             The Deft: Pleads not Guilty to the Tress-
               James Ringgould Plt:
                             pass Hee houlding none of the plts land as
         Anto Purs Defendt
                             in his Declaracon alleadg d
                Interrogotorys deliuered into Court to be demanded from Tho:
               Sowth James Ringgould and John Ringgould, being wittnesses sum-
               moned in Causo inter Tho: Hinson plt: Tho: Ringould defendt

                Wether yow doe not know that about 6 or 7 yeares since Mr
               Thomas Ringould of the County of Kent had a warrant for 1200
               acres to take up, and that the surueyr Generall did depute the said
               W Ringgold to marke out his land himselfe
                Thomas South answers affirmatiuely as allsoe James and John
               Ringould Affirmatiuely

         [p. 256] Wether yow were not wth Mr Ringgould when he went to ueiw a
               peece of land on the Easterne Shore neer adjoyning unto the land
               of mr Tho: south and that mr Tho: Hynson was there wth yow
                Thomas South and James Ringgold Affirme it

                Wether yow did not heare Mr Tho: Ringgould make an agreemt
               wth mr Thomas Hynson, That bee should haue halfe of his warrant
               aforesaid Restoring him soc many rights againe, and that he was
               to suruey it alltogether and Pattent it all in Mr Tho: Ringgolds
               owne name, and after wards to Assigne the halfe thereof unto mr
               Tho: Hinson hee paying Mr Ringgold halfe of the Charge