Charles County Court Proceedings, 1662-1666.    391

      The deposition of Margeret Bouls aged thirty years or thear Liber B
    abouts sworne and examined befor mee this 30th of June Ao 1663
    sayeth Elisabeth wiles asked of this deponant margeret boules
    whether it wear best for her to Cleare him or no this deponant maed
    answer to her againe god hee knows wheather you wear best or no for
    for I doe not know what belongs unto such things and further sayeth [p. 167]
    not:
    Sworne the day and yeare
      aboue mentioned befor mee
         James Lendsey

      Whearupon the Court put it to a Jury whose name are as followeth
    Daniell Johnson Robert Taylor William heard William Hall James
    Mackey Francis Batchelor Richard Dod John Wheeler Thomas hus
    sey Gils Tomkins John Tomkinson John Neuill
      Daniell Johnson beeing Chosen thear forman hee and the Rest of
    the Jury beeing sworne had the precedent oaths deliuered unto them
    with thees instructions from the board

    Gentlemen of the Jury
      You shall in the behalfe of the Right honorable Lord Proprietarie
    trew presentment make of the buisnes to you presented either against
    doctor Lumbroso and his wife or wheather thear bee cause of Pre
    sentment of Either of them yea or nay

    who braught in thear verdit and deliuered it by thear foarman (thay
    all unanimously Consenting) in writing as followeth
      It is the verdit of the Jury and find by her owne publick Confes
    sion that shee was with Child by John Lumbroso and that hee did
    giue her phisick to distroy it and for thees Reason wee doe present
    them
         June the 25th Aoq Domini 1663           [p. 168]
      Whearas thear was a man found adrift in the Creeke Commonly
    Called burdits Creeke upon the 24th of this presant June by Mr
    Thomas Burdit and Notice beeing giuen a iury was impannelled whos
    names are hear under written francis Thorington bceing the foarman
    doth deliuer his verdit all agreeing thearunto finding too hols in his
    brest through the boane thay doe Coniectur that thay wear shot holes
    that thosse shot holes was the Cause of his death and afterwards that
    hee was throune in the walter &c the names of the jurie men im
    pannelled are hearunder written
      Francis Thorington Thomas Robisson Samuell Eaton John Ash
    brooke Jheromy Dickison John Ward Thomas Whorton Samuell
    Palmer John Cabell william Allen Nehemiah Littell Luke Greene
      The Party deceased aboue mentioned was Cloathed with a sarge
    dublet: open sleeues and faced with half silke dammaske a sarge