Court and Testamentary Business, 1642.     1 77

         mr hollis    henry Brooks      John nevill.                                            Liber P. R.

       who were all sworne

        Thomas baldridge fined 100 l tob for not appearing

        Nathan Pope             vpon call

         Then the said Enquest was charged wth this Bill.

         Let it be enquired for Or Sovenaigne Lord the King and the

       Lord Proprietary of this Province if on the two and twentieth

       day of this instant month of ffebruary, at an Indian quarter in

       the woods neare St Georges creek in St George's hundred, vpon

       a certaine Indian commonly called the king of Yowocomoco, in

       the said quarter, in the peace of our said Lord the king, and

       his said Lopp then and there being, John Elkin planter, John

       Robinson barber and miles Ricards (servant of the said John

       Robinson) on the day aforesaid at the place aforesaid, not

       having God before their eies, but seduced & moved by the

       instigation of the divell, of malice forethought, feloniously and

       wickedly, with force & armes, an assault did make, and the

       said John Elkin, one gonne, wch the said John Elkin did then

       & there hold in his hands, did shoote off and discharge at or

       vpon the said Indian, and therewith vnto the said Indian, one

       mortall wound, in the throat of the said Indian, did give, of

       wch said mortall wound, the said Indian king, at the said time

       & place, anon after died; and so the said Indian king at the

       time & place aforesaid, in manner and forme aforesaid, the said

       John Elkin feloniously did kill and murther, contrary to the

       peace of Or Soveraigne Lord the king, his crowne & dignity,

       and contrary to the peace of the Lord Proprietary, his domina

       tion, & dignity.

         And if the said John Robinson and miles Ricards, at the

       time aforesaid, at the place aforesaid, vnto the felony and

       murther aforesaid, in manner & forme aforesaid, were present,

       and aiding, abetting, comforting, or meinteining the said John

       Elkin, in and to the doing & committing of it.

         And they returned, Billa Vera.

         warrant to sheriff to warne 1 2. freemen, of St Georges

       hundred as many as he may, to be at Court on ffriday next at

       one clock after dinner to trie in such causes as shalbe given

       them in charge: vpon paine of TOOl tob.

       1642                                                                                                  p. 77

         ffebruary 2d Thomas Gerard gent made oath, that by vertue

       of an order of Court, he paid 1000 l tob to Thomas Boys; and

       that at the request of the Govr he lent to James Cauther &

       Thomas Boys 2000 l tob, to satisfie Tho: Boys for an engagemt

       of his in virginea, for marmaduke snow (this depts brother in

       Law) & tooke a mortgage of James Cauther & Tho. Boys for