312  Provincial Court Proceedings, 1664.






              Liber B B    The p”sentmt as followeth
                       The Jury for the Rigt Honble the Lord Proprietary doe p”sent
                  Joseph ffincher of Rhode riuer in the County of Ann Arundell, for
                  that the said Joseph ffincher on the 27th day of August 1664 upon
                  Jeffery Haggman seruant to the said Joseph ffincher by force &
                  Armes an Assault did make and wth Certaine sticks of noe uallue
                  which he the said Joseph ffincher in his right hand then & there did
                  hold, diuers blowes on the Body of the Jeffery Haggman did strike
                  soe that of the said blowes the said Jeffery Haggman the day afore
                  said dyd Dye—
                  [p. 383] And soe the said Joseph ffincher the said Jeffery Haggman then
                     and there feloniously and of malice forthought did kill and murder
                       Contrary to the peace of his sd Lordsp his rule & dignity—
                       The Board demands of the Grand Jury the reasons of theire find
                     ing John Grammers inditemt Ignoramus desireing them againe to
                       returne together and deliuer them in writeing which was done and are
                       as followeth (uizt)—
                       First that noe Euidence which appeared before us and gaue Eui
                     dence did possitiuely sweare that any blowes giuen by John Grammer
                       or his man could touch his life—
                       Secondly That the Cords he was whipt wth allthough the blowes
                     might be as many as the Euidences alleadged and that but supposi
                       tionally sworne to could not touch his life—
                       Thirdly That none of the Euidences swore that Grammer gaue him
                     aboue 20 blowes wth the bigger Cord, and that it was an houres time
                       intermitted betweene the beginning and ends of Grammers Cor
                       reccon—
                       Fourthly that the Chirurgions swore that noe stripes giuen him
                     had in the least toucht any principall part whereby in his Judgmt
                       according to the rules of physick his life could not be toucht—
                       Vppon which reasons the Board was sattisfyed—The Grand Jury
                                   discharg'd.
                       Summons to sherriffe to impannell 12 men good and able for the
                      petty Jury Sherriffe returnes his writt and warned—
                      fforeman Samuell Chew        John Wattkins
                            Francis Holland   Philip Allumbey
                            Robt Peca  John Bayley
                            John Burrage Robt Blinckhorne
                            Samuell Garland   Thomas Hopkins
                            John Ewen  William Euans

                       The Indictmt againe read, and the Euidences called examined and
                       sworne as before sett downe—
                       The Jurors wthdrew to Consider of the bille wth the Charge—They
                     returne and being called answered euery One to his name. The ffore-.