142 Court and Testamentary Business, 1649 50.

        Liber 13.  expressed in the Deposition of James Langworth taken this

              present day And these Deponents are both of them very Con-

              fident that the Said Langworth was far from any thought of

              doeing the sd Anther the least hurt at that time and are verily

              perswaded in. their Consciences the Said Langworth did not

              know nor Suspect that the Sd Pistoll was at that time Charged

              but that the Same went off unawares to him the Said Lang-

              worth or to any of the Company then present and further Say

              not

                      Uterq Jurat die & Anno Supradict coram me

                                               Tho:   Hatton

                The Deposition of Mary the wife of John Greenway taken

              in open Court upon Oath the 20th day of March 1651 Saith

                That upon or about the 17th day of ffebruary last Mr Robert

              Clark being in the house where this Deponent liveth in an

              Inner Room of the Said house and having left a Pistol upon

              the table in the outward Room where this Deponent was

              about her occasions where in removeing the Said Pistol off the

              Said table the Same went off in this Deponents hands

              unawares. And this Deponent thereupon goeing out of the

              Said Roome upon her return thither again She found the Said

              M Clark in the room where the Said Pistol Soe went off, who

              asked this Deponent why She Shott off his Pistol, whereupon

              this Deponent answered She did not know that She Shott the

              Same off, and the Said Mr Clark thereupon asked her whether

              She Cocked the Pistoll whereupon She replyed noe or to that

              effect And the Said Mr Clark not long after Charged the Said

              Pistol again putting a paper doubled into the panne, and being

              Soc charged laid the Same again upon the Table whereupon

              Phillip Anther was afterwards killed with the Said Pistol by

              James Langworth unawares as She verily believeth. His

          P• 275   Lorps Attorney General this day declared by way of Indictmt

              Against Mr Robert Clark and James Langworth thereby

              Shewing unto this Court that Phillip Anther late of St Maries

              County deceased being upon or about the 17th day of ffebruary

              last in the house of New town in the County aforesd where

              John Greenway and the Said Langworth then dwelt, was then

              and there by the Sd Robert Clark or James Langworth or one

              of them or by their or one of their means defalt or Careless-

              ness Shott into the head or otherwise by the discharge of a

              Pistol of the Said Mr Clark's that he Suddenly thereupon dyed,

              The Said Pistol having been the Same day in the Same house

              but a Small time before unwittingly discharged by the wife of

              the Said John Greenway in taking the Same in her hand to her

              great affright and amasement Notwithstanding which fair

              admonition the Said Pistol was then presently again by the