Provincial Court Proceedings, 1660. 433

Elle of Broad bone Lace Eight yards of broad silke one olde Capp
one table cloth of ... red weomens Stockins two laced Quoines three

Liber
P. C. R.

laced neck cloathes one fine holland apron, one plaine neck cloth one
scollopt dressing one Quoife two whisks one paire of halfe sleeues
halfe a thousand of pinns fiue hens and one Cock then and there
found did felloniously steale take and carry away and whether James
Atchison Susanna his wife be not accessories both before and after
the facte contrary to the peace of his Lop. his rule and dominion And
the Jury retourned their uerdict Ignoramus.

p. 435

The Complt sueth for twelue thousand pounds of tobacco and
Caske with Costs of Suite The def^t by his Attorney accknowledged
Judgement for the abouesaid twelue thousand pounds of tobacco and
Caske with Costs of suite

Devorax
Browne v.
Robert
Kingsbury
p. Attorn.
Francis
Carpenter

The Comprt by his Attorney sueth for three pounds sterling being
the remayning parte of a debt of thirteene pounds Which the deft
owed to the Complt as he alleadged for parte of his passage into this
Province from England To which the deft answeres that there was
something due to the said Comprt but he did suppose not soe much as
was demanded but that would be made appeare by the fraight booke
of the said Ship To which accompts in the said Fraight booke he
was willing to stand to It is thereupon ordered that the def^t pay to
the Complt soe much money or the vallue thereof as the said Fraight
booke shall charge deb^r with, with costs of Suite

Captaine
Robert
Morris
by his
Attorney
Mr Henry
Coursey v.
Robert
Hopkins

The Comprt sues the def^t in an accon of defamacon calling him
theefe and Rouge To this the def^ts Attorney produced two deposi-
cons one of William Hills and the other of Thomas Barretts by
which the Courte was sattisfyed that it was noe defame and therefore
Grants a non Suite ag^t the Comprt with costs of Suite

The deposicon of William Hill

William Hill aged 17 yeares or thereabouts sworne before Edward
LLoyd Esq^r the thirteenth of February 1660 Sayth, That when the
Ship was at Patuxent the Master, M^r Henry Coursey M^r William
[Coursey] Thomas Burdett, was in the Round house together ....
and M^r William Coursey went out .... behind in The Roundhouse

Thomas
Burdett v.
Cap^t Robert
Morris
by his
Attorney
def Henry
Coursey

and this depon^t being vpon the Quarter deck did see the said Burdett
bring a bottle of sack forth of the Roundhouse whereupon I goeing
to a case of Sack which was in the Round howse did misse a bottle
out of the case which was in the Case when the M^r and M^r Courseys
went out And I then following him the said Burdett into the Stereage
did see the said bottle of sack in the said Burdetts pockett and I had
hould of the Neck of itt to putt it out of his pocckett, but not being
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