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Provincial Court Proceedings, 1658. 207
pounds of Tob only, & was grownded uppon some words tht John
Dandy should utter concerning the Justifying any of his family in
any thing layd to their charge: whereas the dammage susteyned by
the sd Milam was charged uppon ffrancis the now Wife of George
Beckwith, to the ualue of seauen hundd & fifty pownds of Tob as
aforesd, who was then under the tuition of the sd Dandy, hee being
her Guardian & possessed likewise wth her Estate.
It is Ordered tht this cause be Respited till the next Prouinciall
Court & tht ffrancis the Wife of George Beckwith be then pent in
Court allso, To shew cause why shee should not be lyable to satisfy
that Order of Court: it being graunted agst the sd Dandy by occasion
of her misdemeanor & carriage.
Was Called afore the Board John & Mary Williams & (by Mr
Attorney Grail) charged wth the felloniously taking & carrying away
out of the howse of Mr Symon Ouerzee diuers goods, belonging to
the sayd Ouerzee to the ualew of fifty pownd sterl. Together allso
was called Mary the Wife of Daniel Clocker & charged as being
Accessary afore, & after to the ffelony of the sd John, & Mary Wil-
liams, & allso Thomas Courtney as Accessary after the fact of John
& Mary Williams as aforesd Mary the Wife of Daniel Clocker ap-
pearing, saued her Bayle, Tho: Courtney likewise appearing saued
his Bayle.
The Sheriffe for Jurors warned the fformer Jury to attend Viz :
fforeman
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Liber
P. C. R.
Attorney
General v.
Williams
et al.
p. 164
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Mr Henry Coursey
Mr Rich: Willan
Mr Edw: Parkes
Mr Hugh Stanly
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Mr George Reade
Mr Roger Isham
Edm: Lindsey
James Lee
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Clemt Tybalds
Willm Yowng
Tho: Belcher
John Cornelius
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Mary Clocker excepts agst Edmund Lindsey & requesteth that Mr
Metcalfe may declare what hee hath heard.
John Metcalfe Gentn sworne in open Court Sayth, That being one
day att Daniel Clockers, soone after the arryuall of the Jew, Mary
Clocker told this Depon' that there was a yowng man wch lyued about
Portoback, & came to Mr Ouerzees howse along wth Mr Chandler,
wch tooke (as shee did suppose) a pockett full of Linnen & emptying
his pocketts came againe & filled them wth linnen & againe went out
& hid itt.
Mr George Mee substituted in roome of Edm: Londsey And Mr
Symon Ouerzee being bownd in Recogniz of 1000l Tob. to the Ld
Propr to prosequute att this Prouinciall Court the foresd ffelons (all
of them) Prefers this Bill of Inditemt.
Inditemt. Lett it be enquyred for the Lord Prope whither John
Williams & Mary his wife, late of St Johns in the County of St
Maries, on the ninth day of Octobr last past, att the howse of Symon
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