234       Provincial Court Proceedings, 1664.

               Liber B B  answering all to theire names—The foreman gaue in theire Verdicts
                       Endorsed on all the Bills, (Vizt) Billa Vera—
                       The Prisoners being Call'd to the Barre The Presentments was read
                     to which each Prisoner pleads not Guilty, And Cranes to bee tryed
                          by God & theire Country—
                          The Presentments as followeth
                       The Jury for the Right Honble the Lord Proprietary doe prsent
                       that Arthur Nottool taylor late of Abingtons Clifts in Caluert
                       County the tenth day of June in the yeare of Our Lord God 1664
                       in the night of the same day by force and Armes the howse of John
                       Hunt of little Eltonhead Mannor in the said County Burglariously
                       and feloniously did breake and enter and One Gunn of the said John
                       Hunts of the uahlue of twenty shillings and One shirte to the uahlue
                       of flue shillings did feloniously steale and carry away to the greate
                       damage of the said John Hunt and Contrary to the Peace of his said
                       Lordsp his Rule and Dignity—
                       The Jury for the Rigt Honble the Lord Proprietary doe Present
                      that Arthur Nottool Taylor late of Abingtons Clifts in Caluert
                       County being in Prison in the Custody of Thomas Sprigg Gentn
                       high sherrife of Caluert County for Burglary for which hee was
                       to bee tryed att the Prouinall Court held this 5th July 1664 by force
                       and Armes the howse of the said Thomas Sprigg in which hee was
                       imprisoned did breake and soe out of that Prison then and there did
                       passe and feloniously escape Contrary to the peace of his said Lordsp
                       his rule and dignity—
                       The Jury for the Right Honble the Lord Proprietary Doe prsent
                     Pope Aluey in Brittons Bay in the County of st Marys Cooper the
                     twenty ninth day of ffebruary in the yeare of Our Lord God 1663
                     att St Winifreds in st Clements Hundred in the County aforesaid
                     upon Alce Sandford Seruant to the said Pope Aluey by force and
                     Armes an Assault did make and wth Certaine Sticks of no uallue
                     which hee the said Pope Aluey in his right hand then and there did
                     hold, diuers blowes on the Body of the said Alce Sandford did strike
                     soe that of the Said Blowes the said Alce Sandford did dye wthin
                     halfe an houres space, and soe that the said Pope Aluey the said Alice
                     Sandford then and there feloniously did kill Contrary to the peace of
                     his said Lordsp his Rule & dignity
                [p. 298] The Jury for the Rigt Honble the Lord Proprietary Doe prsent
                     Elizabeth Greene of Garriden in Caluert County spinster the sixth
                     day of May in the yeare of Our Lord God 1664 being bigg wth Childe
                     by Gods Prouidence was deliuered of a Certaine liuing man Childe
                     which said liuing man Childe She the said Elizabeth Greene did
                     throw into the fire, And soe that the said Elizabeth Greene the liuing
                     man Childe by throwing into the fire in manner and forme aforesaid,
                     then and there feloniously and of malice forethought did Kill and