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432 Provincial Court Proceedings, 1660.
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Liber
P. C. R.
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St Clements Baye in the aforesaid Province gent where she this
deponll did at her first comeing into the Province often lye with the
abouesd Elizabeth, but did never knowe nor as much as suspected that
the abouesaid Elizabeth was ever with Child nor did never at any
time from their first being accquaynted to this pesent houre, heare her
the said Elizabeth, or any body else talke of the abouesaid Elizabeths
either being with child, or that she was deliuered of a child And
further this depont doth declare that she never heard any person
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p. 434
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or .... say that she the abouesaid Elizabeth should at .... other
person or persons .... (or in any other place) either aliue or
dead And this depont doth further declare that she doth not remember
that the abouesaid Elizabeth was at any tyme sick from the day of
their first meeting together at James Langworths vntill the Second
Summer after their comeing into the Country and further sayth not
The marke of [mark] Margarett Mashguy
Jurat coram me James Langworth
The Jury doe pesent for the Lord Proprietary that Elizabeth
Harris late of St Clements hundred in the County of St Marys
Spinister in the Easter holly dayes in the yeare of our Lord 1657 at
St Wynifrids in the County and hundred aforesaid then and there a
certaine man child aliue did bring forth and afterward the said
Elizabeth at St Wynifrids aforesaid the aforesaid Infant liueing did
throwe out of doores hard by the landing by which the said Infant
imediately did dye and soe the said Elizabeth Harris the said Infant
at the place and tyme aforesaid felloniously did kill and murder
Contrary to the peace of his Lop, his rule and dominion Being asked
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26 Feb.
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whether she was Guilty or not guilty she answered not guilty and
being demanded by whome she would be tryed answered by God and
the Country
whereupon was impannelld a Jury as followeth (vizt)
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Mr William Bretton Foreman, Mr Richard Willan
Mr Thomas Mathews Mr Robert Macklyn
Mr William Hughes Mr Thomas Burdett
Mr Richard Forster Mr Patrick Forrest
Mr Thomas Turner Mr Deliuerance Lovely
Mr Thomas Stone Mr William Greene.
And the Jury retourned their Verdict not Guilty
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Attorney
General v.
Pauldin
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The Indictment of Jane Pauledin
Let it be enquired for the Lord Proprietary whether Jane Pauledin
now the wife of John Titmarsh of St Leonards in Caluert County
vpon the foure and twentyth day of december 1659 at the howse of
Thomas Belcher vpon the Resurreccon Mannor in the County afore-
said one Holland Apron seaven yards of white small bone Lace one
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