182 Court and Testamentary Business, 1649 50.

          Liber B.  Susan Warren say that she would damn her Soul but that she

               would be revenged on Capt Mitchell or to that effect and

               further saith not.

                               Sworn in open Court 30 Junii 1652

          p. 327     At a Court held at St Maries 29 Junii anno

                              Dni 1652

                Present as the day before, Only Mr Secretary was taken off

               by reason he was to prosecute being his Lordps Attorney.

          p.   328 The Court this day took into Consideracon a Peticon exhib-

               ited by Capt William Mitchell who intended (as it Seems) to

               have preferred the Same to the Assembly had it gone on.

                The Peticon being as followeth vizt

                        To the Honble the Assembly for regulateing the

                        affairs of the Province of Maryland.

                The humble Peticon of Capt Wm Mitchell Humbly Shewing

                That your Peticoner was on Saturday last comitted prisoner

               to the Common Goal upon a Warrant Signed by Robert

               Brooke Esq, In which your Peticoner Stands charged in gen-

               eral words with Murther Atheisme and Blasphemy, Crimes

               never in the least acted or within the Intention of your Peticoner

                     Your Peticoner therefore humbly prays he may be

                   Speedily called to his Answer, and have his liberty

                   restored in Case noe crime in Law be proved against

                   him that warrants his Imprisonment upon the warrant

                   before menconed, And that his Natural filing for which

                   God hath pleased to afflict and humble your Peticoner,

                   may not be pressed against your Peticoner in Cases

                   wherein the Laws of England are Silent, And your

                   Peticonr Shall ever pray.

                                               Wm Mitchell

                Upon reading of which Peticon the Court gave direction for

               a Speedy tryall whereupon his Lordps Attorney Mr Hatton

               brought in his Charge as followeth viz.

               May it please this Honble Court.

                It is fallen to my Lott upon the late alteracon in the Gov-

               ernment as Attorney to the Lord Propriary to be psecutor

               against Capt William Mitchell now prisoner here upon Mr

               Brookes Warrant, I could have wished there had been no Such

               occasion, The Crimes for which I am to charge him being Soe

               many and Soc haynous, that I have not known or heard of the

               like, It troubles me the rather in regard the Lord Baltemore