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ceased & to give acquittances &c., & to have the sole management & 

 superintending of two plants, going by the name of Lebanus or Reside 

 vous (RivendouJ & Staple Grove, with all the houses, &c. 

 Witness John Colleton Mary Peers. 



Richard Barret John Pkers. 



Ed. Parsons 



Geo. Burkhead 



John Dally. 

 Sir John Frederick, Kt., Lord Mayor of London, certified Robert 

 Barber, to be a Notary Public on 15 Nov., 1661. 



Entered 10 Jan. 1662, 



On II Nov. 1661. — Personally appear before Robert Barber, Notary 

 Public, London, Mary Peers, Relifl of Richard Peers of B/dos, who 

 appoints in her own right, Alex. Cuningham, Merchant of London, as 

 her attorney to receive into his custody all such sugar & other com- 

 modities, which shall on his arrival in B/dos be found, or in future 

 be made on Plants, Lebanus or Rendezvous & Staple Grove, due her as 

 widow of the late Richard Peers ; he is not to sell or lease Estates. 



Same witnesses as above. 



Entered Barbadoes, Jan, 11 1662. 

 The Lady Peers being now a widow & whose Estate is in Barbadoes, 

 she hath here applied herself to me for yt. lawfull & just proteftion yt. 

 she in equity may challenge from me, & the rather for yt. Estate is in the 

 possession of strangers, while she & her children are at a great distance 

 from it, & for as much as I do understand it is a very considerable 

 Estate, I have therefore thought fit to recommend to you a true & just 

 care thereof, yt. so no inhandsome damages may fall upon it & whereas 

 she has appointed her kinsman Mr. Alexander Cuningham and Mr. 

 John Ashcroft to be her attorneys, I doe in an especial manner desire 

 yt. upon all application by yem or any of yem you receive the 

 complaints & addresses with kindness, & by all just & lawful means 

 assist yem so, yt. neither losses or incurances by others the then • * 

 persons either by will or ignorance may lessen or doe hurt to the 

 Estate & yt. then performing what in reason & justice they ought to 

 doe in order to the safeguard of this Lady and her children with also a 



