XCVII.
30 March 1522.
Know all men that I, Roger Winter, clerk and secular priest and chaplain of the Altars of SS. Anthony and Barbara in the Church of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary in the town of Calais : with the unanimous consent of my mother and myself, have assigned, made, deputed, and in our place placed and constituted our beloved in Christ, Nicholas Cocks and Francis Stele, inhabitants of the town of Dover, and each one of them conjointly and severally our true and legitimate attorneys and undoubted procurators and factors on this behalf, for exacting, levying, receiving, and recovering for us, and in our names, all goods, move ables, chattels, and debts belonging and appertaining to Sir John Recht, alias Fisher, priest, whilst he lived, and to us descended by reason of his death and departure from this world, from all and singular persons having, holding, and guarding and owing them : giving and granting to our aforesaid attorneys full and sufficient authority, power, and special command, in case or default of delivery and restitution of goods and non-payment of money due and appertaining to the said Sir John whilst he lived, by any person or persons whatsoever, and resisting and refusing to restore them to the said attorneys, for causing all men of this sort to be arrested, if it shall be necessary, and for imprisoning and delivering from prison and impleading and prosecuting pleas and prosecutions against them, and for us, in our names, sustaining and supporting all and any such in any court and before any judge or justiciar it may seem good to them as strictly as the law requires and demands : and for making, sealing, and delivering acquit tances for us, and in our names, for receipts of this sort on this behalf: and for doing, exercising, executing, and expe diting all other and singular things which in the premises and concerning them be necessary and in any wav oppor tune, for us and in our names as fullv and wholly as we who constitute them would do or might be able to do if we had been personally present : to hold, ratified and gratified, firm and stable, everything and anything the aforesaid our attorneys shall do in the premises for us and in our names.
In witness of all which our seals are affixed to the presents.
Given on the thirtieth day of the month of March in the thirteenth year of the reign of King Henry, the eighth of England after the conquest.