Court and Testamentary Business, 1643. 247

       The charge of his Lops Attorny Gen: agst william durford                   Liber P. R.

     carpr, John durford frederick Johnson

       That whereas on the 18th day of January last, Richard Ingle

     mariner was accused & imprisond for certaine treasonable

     matters informed agst him, and the ship called the Reforma

     tion, wherof was Master the said Rich. I) putt vnder arrest in

     the custody of John hamton & other guard; and by Procla

     mation published & affixed on the maine mast of the said ship,

     all persons aboard the said ship present (or future while the

     said guard continued) were comanded in his Lops name vpon

     their allegeance to his matie to be aiding & assisting to the said

     guard, in the holding & keeping of the said shipp; They the

     said J. d: & others above named, conspired & joined together

     to rescue the said R. I. & his said ship out of the said custody,

     and did rescue him & it, & did beate, wound & otherwise

     abuse the said guard, riotously & forceably contrary to their

     allegeance to Or Lo. the king, & the peace of the Lo: Propr. his

     ddation & dignity. And of this contempt, misdemeanor, riott,

     escape, & rescue, iointly & severally the said Attorny im

     peacheth the said pties iointly & severally. &c.

       The charge of his Lops attorny gen: agst Richard Ingle mariner

     &c master of the ship called the Reformation

       that whereas on the 18th day of January last, the said R. I.

     was by the Leiutent Gener: committed into the custody of

     Edward Packer sheriff for suspicion of certaine treasonable

     matters informed agst him; and the said ship arrested & com

     mitted to the custody of John hamton, wth a guard of land-men

     to assist & aid him then vntill the said R. I. & his said ship

     should be discharged by due course of law; nevertheles the

     said R. I. made an escape out of the said sheriffs custody, &

     rescued his said ship from the possession of the said guard,

     and did beate & otherwise abuse them, or did conspire consent

     & encourage his seamen thervnto to the great contempt of his

     Lops authority, the ill example of others, and contrary to the

     peace of the Lord Propr. And of this prison-break, rescue,

     misdemeanor & contempt aforesaid, iointly & severally, the

     said attorny impeacheth the said R. I. &c.

     1643

       ffebruary 8. The second charge of his Lops Attorny gen.                                     p.

                    agst Rich. Ingle &c.

       That the said Rich. Ingle on the 20th day of January last, &

     afore & since in St Georges river, vpon the persons vessells &

     goods of henry bishop & sundry other psons, in the peace of