590 Provincial Court Procee0dings, 1661.

Liber
P. C. R.

The def^t craues an Appeale to the next Pro^all Co^rt It is ordered
that the whole proceeding be sent to the next Pro^all Co^rt
Walter Hall Clk, ....

At a Co^rt held att New Towne for the County of S^t Marys the 5^t

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of August 1662
Present Coll W^m Evans M^r Thomas Mathews M^r John Lawson
M^r Luke Gardner M^r Richard LLoyd Comrs

To the Worpfull Com" of S^t Marys County
The humble peticon of John Hammond Sheweth That the last
Spring yo^r pet^r bought of John Lumbroso certaine Goods for a
Surhe of tobacco by them agreed on payable att the Cropp who
offered him Bill for the same which he delayed to take, he professing
very much kindnes & severall extraordinary Curtesyes to him yo^r pet^r
but by his frequenting yo^r pet^rs howse, and by some discourse dropt
from his wife and the s^d Lumbroso, he found cause to forwarne him
his howse, The s^d Lumbroso being soe debarred of his former ad-
mittance sends one Isham to demand bill of yo^r pet^r for a greater
Quantity then was due to him which yo^r pet^r refused to pass, he the
s^d Lumbroso reported that he had intrusted yo^r pet^r with his Goods
and Could not gett payment, But that yo^r pet^r would haue had him
layn with his wife for sattisfaccon and broached the same soe Con-
fidently and frequently that itt became a Generall discourse and hath
soe blemisht yo^r pet^r that he is become the by word and Scoff of
many and hath soe irrepayrable injured him both in this Province
and Virginea that itt hath woly taken away his hope of Liuely hood,
He therefore prayeth that the matter & aggrevacons may be seriously
taken notice of and he repayred according to the merritt of his Of-
fence and yo^r pet^rs suffrings And he shall pray &c.

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John Sheirtcliff aged 44 yeares sworne and Exam .... Co^rt ....
she would or words to that Effect & further sayth not
John Sheirtcliffe
Walter Pakes aged fifty foure yeares sworne and Examined in
open Co^rt sayth, That sometyme the last Spring being att the howse
of M^r Sheirtcliffe, he this depon^t did heare att the howse that Doctor
Lumbroso should say that M^r Hammond had proffered him his wife
to lye w^th her in sattisfaccon of some Goods the said Hammond had
of the said Lumbroso, And this depon^t goeing home to his howse
mett with M^r Hamond where this .... did reprove the s^d Hamond
for proffering his wife to the s^d Lumbroso whereupon M^r Hammond
answered this depon^t that he asked the s^d Lumbroso why he gaue his
wife an Elle of fine Holland and the said Lumbroso answered him,
that he gave itt her for the tymes he had layne with her, And the s^d
Hamond swore many Bloody oathes and called the s^d Lumbroso