216  Provincial Court Proceedings, 1664.






               Liber B B The names of the Jury of Inquest that ueiwed the body of Ann
                     Beetle Serut to Wm Hunt of Ann Arundell
                     fforeman Francis Holland
                            John Sollers             Dennis Macconoy
                            George Symmons           Nathaniell Smyth
                            Jeremy Sudeuan           Andrew Baker
                            Thomas Martin            James Maxell
                            Edmund Joyce                John Pert
                                                     Henry Archer
                            Henry Perry

                [p. 278] Henry Sauage aged 34 yeares or thereabouts Sworne Sayth—That
                      hee saw Willm Hunts wife shoue Ann Betle Seruant to the said
                      Willm Hunt from the bedd and she the said Ann Beetle rose up wth
                      her eye brow blooddy and further sayth not
                       March the 17th 1663           the marke of
                       Sworne before mee             Henry X Sauage
                         Sam: Chew

                       Moses Groome aged 18 yeares or thereabouts Sworne sayth that
                     comming to the howse of Willm Hunt saw Ann Beetle Seruant to the
                     said Willm Hunt haue a great Cutt on her eye brow and her face and
                     Clothes blooddy and a great Clodd of blood on the wound and heard
                     Mrs Hunt uery angry wth the said Ann Beetle and further sayth not
                       March 17th 1663              Moses Groome
                       Sworne before mee             his X marke
                          Samuell Chew

                       Wee the Jurors of Inquest being irnpanell'd by Mr Samuell Chew
                       high Sherriffe for the County of Ann Arundell to search the body
                       of John Cowill Seruant to Mr Francis Holland of the County afore
                       said and hauing uiewed him doe finde according to the best of our
                       knowledge that hee the said Jno Cowill did willfully of his owne
                       accord hang himselfe to death—
                       Wherefore Wee the said Jurors of Inquest doe indite the said
                     John Cowill, hee not hauing the feare of God before his eyes for
                     feloniously murdering himselfe, And soe giue up Our Virdict by one
                     Vnanimouse Consent by Our fforeman this day of May 1664
                       Samuell Chew Coroner           John Stansby
                       The names of the Jurors to uiew the body of John Cowill Seruant
                     to Mr Holland—
                     fforeman Jno Stansbye        Thomas Martin
                       Richard Wells
                           Nathaniell Hcathcott   Jeremy Suddeuan
                                                  Willm Hunt
                           Daniell Dickes
                            Markes Clare          John Peart
                                                Willm Adams
                            Willm Roper           Samuell Thornebury
                        Henry Perry