14         Provincial Court Proceedings, 1663.

             Liber B B And the Court adiorned by the Lt Grall for 2 howres, ‘till the sd
                    Richardson bee prsent.

               [p. 14] The Court mett againe & George Richardson prseflt, who being
                    called & answering to their Call, The fforeman gaue in their Verdict
                    Endorsed on the Bill, (Viz) Bill a Vera.
                      The Prisoner being Called to the Barre, The Presentmt was read.
                    To wch the Prisoner pleads not Guilty, And Cranes to bee tryed by
                    God and his Country. The prsentmt is as followeth
                      The Jurors for the Ld Proprietary of this Prouince doe present
                    That Patrick Due of Bromail in St Leonards hundd in Caluert
                    County Plant' on the 14th day of March, in the yeare of Our Lord
                    God 1662, & in the one & Thirteith yeare of the Dominion of his sd
                    Lordship ouer this Prouince att Brornall aforesd, in the County
                    aforesd a Certaine Person called Richard Morton late of Wapping
                    in the County of Midds, in the Realme of England Mariner, & Sea
                    faring on the ship commanded by Capt Raph Storye, whom hee then
                    & there Chanced to meete, did wth contumelious words prouoake, &
                    uppon the sd Richard Morton, then & there remayning in the peace
                    of God & of his sd Lordship, by force & armes an assault did make,
                    & wth a Certaine Gun (of the ualew of flueteene shillings) wch the sd
                    Patrick Due, then & there in his hands did hold & discharge agst the
                    sd Richard Morton, Being loaden wth Gunpowder & Bur-shott, The
                    Arme of the sd Richard Morton did wownd th Eight wounds, And
                    through his arme the Body of him the sd Richard Morton did feloni
                    ously peirce, Gyning the sd Richard Morton one mortall wound in
                    his sd Body of the breadth of One Inch, & depth of ffowre Inches,
                    And Two other wounds (Viz) one through the Bastard Ribbs &
                    Lungs, of the breadth of a Burshott, & depth of Three Inches, And
                    one other wound through the third & fowrth Ribbs, of the breadth of
                    the Burshott, and depth of six Inches, Of wch wounds the sd Richard
                    Morton on the 17th of March in the yeare of our Lord God 1662,
                    dyed. And soe That the sd Patrick Due of Brornall aforesd, in the
                    County aforesd, in manner & forme aforesd, the sd Richard Morton
                    feloniously & of malice forethought did kill & murther agst the Peace
                    of the sd Lord Proprietary his Rule & Gouermt.

                      The Grand Jury discharged, & the Petite Jury Called, (Viz)
                    fforeman
                      Mr Arthure Lud ford          John Leach   Stephen Yoe
                    Gabriel Barkeley George Hardesty  Rich: Wadsworth
                    John Little      James Godsgrace  ffrancis Spencer
                    John Salisbury   George Allderson John Bowlin
                    The prsentmt was againe read to the sd Jurors, And the Euidence
                    calleds, Examined, & Sworne, as afore.
                      The Jurors wthdrew to consider on the sd Bill & their Charge. And
                    the howse adiurned by the Lt Grail till the Juryes Returne.