10        Provincial Court Proceedings, 1663.

             Liber B B  Samuel Styles, Henry Gorslett, & Thomas Broxam bee forthwth
                    whipped wth 30 Lashes each. Then the Court further ordered tht
                    Two of the mildest (not soe refractory as the other) should be par
                    doned & tht those two soe pardoned should inflict the censure or pun
                    ishmt on their other Companions. And thereuppon the sd Seruants
                    kneeling on their knees, asking & Craning forgiuenes of their Mas
                    ter and the Court for their former misdemeanor & promising all
                    complyance & obedience hereafter, Their Penalty is remitted or sus
                    pended att prsent. But they are to bee of the good behauior towards
                    their sd Master euer hereafter (uppon their promise of amendmt as
                    aforesd) And soe to bee Certifyed from Court to Court.

                     Sheriffe Returnes his writt & warned for the Grand Jury.
                    fforemã
                     Mr Hugh Stanley Robert Done     Thomas Glouer
                    Rich: Creekbone  George Richardson     Samuel Graues
                    Thomas Ireton    James Veitch    John Grammer
                    John Murth       Micheal Catterton     Peter Joye
                    Enoch Cumbs      John Norton     Henry Keene
                    Patrick Cambdell Mathew Stone
                                                     All sworne:

                     Then Mr Attorney GraIl prefers this Inditamt to the Board, &
                    those prsons bownd our to prosequute (Viz) Tobias Dunkin, John
                    Addams & Elias Chandler; together wth the Coroners enquest & other
                    papers following, wch p”sons were examined before the Jurors &c by
                    the Board.
                     Lett it be enquyred for the Rt honble the Ld Proprietary, Whither
                    Patrick Due, of Bromall in St Leonards hundd in Caluert County
                    Plant” the ffourteenth day of March in the yeare of our Lord God
                    1662, & in tW One & thirtieth yeare of the Dominion of his Lp
                    ouer this Prouince, att Bromall aforesd in the County aforesd a cer
                    tame Person called Richard Morton, late of Wapping, in the County
                    of Mktds in the Realme of England mariner, & Seafaring in the ship
                    Commanded by Capt Raph Storye, whom hee then & there chanced to
                    meete, did wth Contumelious words prouocke & uppon the sd Richard
                    Morton then & there remayning in the peace of god, & of his Lord
                    ship, by force & armes an assault did make, & wth a Certaine Gunne
                    of the ualue of flueteene shillings which hee the sd Patrick Due did
                    then & there in his hands hold, & discharge agst the sd Richard Mor
                    ton, being loaden Gunpowder & Bun-shott, the arme of the sd
                    Richard Morton did wownd Eight wounds, & through his arme,
                [p. 11  the Body of him the sd Richard Morton did feloniously peirce;
                    Gyuing the sd Richard Morton one martall wound in his sd Body of
                    the breadth of one Inch, & depth of ffowre Inches. And Two other