Provincial Court Proceedings, 1664.  233






     Greene. Yes I liu'd in the howse wth her. did yow know whether Liber B B
     she was Wth Childe. hee did not know but she was uery bigg—then
     the said William Wheeler was demanded whether hee heard any [p. 296]
     thinge Cry wth a uoyce in the likenesse of a Childe. Yes something
      hee did heare like the uoyce of a Childe att the time that she was sicke
        Thomas Taylor examined saith that hee Came into the howse
     when she was lying on the Ground and asked her what she ayled and
       bid her goe to bed, and that she had milke and water in her breasts
       two months be fore—
       Grace Parker Examined saith That she was a stranger to the
     wench and did not see her aboue once all the time she was wth Childe
     and that she did search her breast and the wench deny'd she was
     Childe but there was milke in her breasts And it was a goeing away

       being hard and Curdled—And she desireing her to declare after she

       was deliuered what she had done wth her Childe she said she had

       buryed it in such a place hut when they Came to search for it they

       Could finde noe such thinge—

       J ohn Dessick examined saith Being asked wac yow wth Pope Aluey
     in the woods, answered yes. doe yow know how higg the sticks was

       that hee struck her withall. Yes, it was a small stick lesse then his

       little finger by a greate manner being asked whether the Homony

       that Pope Aluey put into Alce Sand fords mouth was hott or Cold

       hee said Cold—

       Thomas Sprigg his Charge drawne up against Arthur Nottool
     These are to Certifye that Arthur Nottool sometime in June last
     past was Committed a prisoner into my Custody upon suspiticon of
     Burglary and according to warrant directed to mee bearing date the
     13th June last past signed by Mr Francis Anketill the said Arthur
     Nottool did take into my Custody and put Irons upon his leggs and
     lockt him in a Close roome and put a watch ouer him for his more
     sure keeping, notwithstanding on twesday last past in the night time
     the said Nottool did unfetter himselfe and breake his prison and
     further broke into my milke howse and tooke away 3 Cheeses wth
     him and a Canuas bagg and two loaues of bread and into the woods
     hee went and was escaped till by narrow search hee was found Witt
     nes my hand this 5th July 1664— Thomas Sprigg

       The Sherriffe of St Marys County returns his writt for summon
     ing nine persons towards a petty Jury

       The Sherriffe of Caluert County returns his writt for summon
       ing nine prsons for a petty Jury—
       The Jurors goeing out by themselues to Consider of the Inditemts [p 297]
     and the Euidences and theire Verdicts—The Jurors Came into Court