232  Provincial Court Proceedings, 1664.






              Liber B B   Lord Propr) what hee knowes agt Arthur Nottool concerninge Goods
                     stoolen then this Obligacon to bee uoid and of noe Effect otherwise
                     to be in full force and uertue John Hunt
                       Arthur Nottool Called and Examined did openly con fesse that he
                     did breake open a Chest with an Hatchett and tooke out a burning
                     Glasse Ver Exampr p me James Thompson Clerke


                [p. 295] The Examinacon of Arthur Nottool taken this 5th Day of July
                     1664 Before the Gouernor and Councell
                       Being asked whose Seruant he was last, answered Wm Lowryes
                     demanded what roome hee tooke W Smyths ifiower out of answered
                     the dairy and entred under the Ground and hid it in a hollow tree
                     beyound my Lords
                     demanded if hee broke John Hunts howse open aiiswered yes and
                     that the Chest was open and tooke a Shirte out of it and a Trauant
                     about a month since and that some of the Goods in the Connew was
                     John Hunts,
                     being asked if hee had noe Cornpanyons to assist him said hee had
                     none and that hee had noe Company att the Clifts and asked what
                     hee gott att the Secretarys answered a pott of butter and a pott of
                     Creame and gott in att the window—
                     being asked att what time hee gott in att John Hunts howse an
                     swered about midnight, demanded if hee broke open Mr Spriggs
                     house said hee gott into the milke howse, then asked how hee gott
                     his shackles off, said hee gott a horse lock and pull'd out one of the
                     scrues, then demanded if noc body aduis'd him to breake prison or
                     assist him answered no body
                       Then John Hunt was call'd before the Gouernor and Councell and

                       of him demanded Whether hee could Swear that the boy Arthur

                       Nottool did breake open his howse, who reply'd hee could not—

                       The Examinacon of Elizabeth Greene taken this 5th day of July
                     1664 Before the Gouernor and Councell—being asked if her name was
                     Elizabeth Greene, answered yes, and what Country Woman she was
                     said borne flue miles from Norwitch. asked where she liued, an
                     swered she liued last wth John Gary. You are acctis'd of hauing a
                     Bastard Childe and that yow did murder it. She answered she had
                     One but did not murder it, nor did not see what she had whether it
                     was a Childe form'd or not. What made yow soe barbarous to make
                     it away She answered she was gone But 4 monthes had yow a
                     Childe borne or not, answered she did not see such a thinge but was
                     dehiuered being put into a fright by some runawayes.
                       William Wheeler and Thomas Taylor as wittnesses V Elizabeth
                     Greene examined, Wm Wheeler first Doe yow know Elizabeth