270  Provincial Court Proceedings, 1664.







                Liber B B Margerite ffrench wife to the abouesaid Nathaniell ffrench being
                      prsent at the same time did heare Thomas Paggett say the uery same
                      words aboue written to my Husband, and this I am able to be depos'd
                      when I am thereunto Called Wittnes my hand this 24th day of
                      July 1664                        the marke of
                        Sworne in Open Court        Marget ffrench
                          Philip Caluert
                       The Board not Judging the depositiones of these seuerall persons
                       sufficient proofe for the damage or any at all as in the plts declara
                       con is auerr'd Vppon which he Craues a Iury—
                       Warrt to the sherriffe to impanell 12 able men of the neighbour
                       hood ret forthwith—
                       Sherriffe returnes his warrt & impanells
                                     Foreman
                       Capt James Neale William Bretton James Thompson
                      John Nuthall John Gittings   Willm Heard
                      Ben: Rozer   Wm Price    Geo: Hack
                      Humphery Waring          Tho: Bennitt  Symon Carpenter
                         The Jurors Charge giuen is this
                       Whether Thomas Paggett did falsely and therefore malitiously
                       Call Mr Stanley Knaue & Cheating Knaue and say he would proue
                       him a Cheating Knaue—
                       2 Whether in Case he did falsely and therefore malitiously call
                      him Knaue Cheating Knaue and say hee would proue him a Cheating
                       Knaue he be dampnifyed thirety thowsand pounds of tobacco or any
                       thinge att all—
                       Ordered the Jurors haue 30th tob: each person
                       The Jurors returne theire Virdict and is as followeth (uizt)
                       Wee of the Jury doe finde no actuali damage Susteyned by the
                       pit, By the defts calling of him a Cheating Knaue—
                       Neither what hath been prou'd of the defendts Charge agt the plt:
                      to be soe ualid as to repute him a Cheating Knaue
               [p. 337] Ordred in the foregoeing Cause that the Jurors Verdict be entred
                       for the Judgment—
                       Thomas Paggett his bill of Cost of Suite against Hugh Stanley
                      in these Charges followinge
                                                      lb tob:
                        Nonsuite                      350
                        5 wittnesses 6 dayes each     900
                        Attorneys ffees               6o
                        Sherriffe summoning Jo pTsoflS  100 2040lb tob:
                        A Jury                        360
                        Attorneys attendance 3 dayes  90
                        my owne attendance 6 dayes    180