510  Provincial Court Proceedings, 1665.





             Liber F F That yor Petr hath a seruant named Willm Rudde now in the Cus
                    tody of the High sheriffe of St Maries County, where hee hath con
                    tinued a prisoner since Whitsontyde past to the dammage & losse of
                    yor Petr in respect of the want of his sd seruice
                      Yor Petr therefore humbly prays uppon Consideroon thereof that
                    this honble Court will order him satisfaction by seruitude as in their
                    graue wisdomes shall thinke most Conuenient & fitt in recompence of
                    the same & yor Petr will euer pray &c:
                      Ordered uppon the plfs Petn tht Willm Rudde bee deliuered to the
                    Petr his master to serue out the remainder of his time, And as to the
                    dammages (as sheriffs ffees) That being payd & discharged the sd
                    Rudde to satisfy tht aliso by seruitude, unlesse otherwise agreed/

               [p. 101] To the honble the Gouernor & Councell now sitting
                      The humble Petn of John Lawson sheweth,
                      That whereas yor Petr being to impanell a Jury of En-
                    quest for the Veiw of John Dyatt deceased wth graue making & other
                    expences amounting to the ualue of 3091 Tob. Yor Petr humbly
                    Craues order uppon the estate of the sd Dyatt if there bee any to pay
                    the same; or otherwise to bee satisfyed as yor honrs shall thinke good
                    & yor Petr shall euer pray &c.
                       To Beer & sugar 3 qrts before his Death   030
                       To the men that made his graue     o6o
                       To the Jury in drinke              o6o
                       To the Impanell of the Jury        120
                       To the Coroner                     100
                                                          390

                      Att a Jury of Enquest impanelled by John Lawson sheriffe &
                    Coroner for the County of St Maries, to ueiw the Body of John Dyatt
                    late of St Clemts Bay, fownd dead neare the Prouinciall Court howse
                    att St Maries the 14th day of Octobr 1665, Doe find the Cause of his
                    death to bee, Hee being sick & weake of Body & nature decayed in
                    him by reason of his age & for want of Conuenient sustanance &
                    Looking after & his Lying under a Cold Banck; was the Instru
                    mentall Cause of his Death Wittnes our hands the 15th Octobr 1665/
                     Nicholas Gwyther               Robert Lloyd Vincent Attchison
                     Richard Ewen    John Hollins   Edward West
                     Benja Rosier    Willm Lawrence Richard ffoster
                     John Stansbey   Toby Wells     Philip Holleager
                                                 John Lawson sheriffe

                      Ordered tht the Estate of the Deceased (Lying in W Marmaduke
                    Snows hands who was by Act of Assembly to pay the Deceased Corne
                    & Cloaths, being his Last master) satisfy to the sheriffe of St Maries
                    County the abouesd sume of Three hundd & ninety pownds of Tob. in
                                     Cask.