542Provincial Court Proceedings, 1665-66.





               Liber F F The Charge being giuen to the Grand Jury Proclamacon was then
                [p. 147] made by the Cryer

                      All manner of persons that haue any Bills of Jndictmt to put unto
                     the great Inquest, put them into the Court first that his Lordsps
                     Councell may peruse them or else they shall not be receiued

                      Noe person putting any in, after a while the Jury returnes into
                     Court & deliuers in these bills foll: and that they were Content the
                     Court should amend forme, and false Latine altering matter of noe
                     substance in those bills wch they haue found.

                      The Jury for the Rigt Honble the Lord Proprietary doth prsent
                     that Pope Aluey of Newtowne hundred in the County of St Marys
                     Cooper the 19th day of Decembr in the yeare 1665 att Brittons Bay
                     in Newtowne hundred in the County aforesd a Certaine Cow of black
                     Culler to the uallue of two pounds tenn shillings sterling of the Goods
                     and Chattles of Coil: William Euans then And there being found
                     feloniously tooke stoled kill'd and carryed away against the peace
                     of the said Lord Proprietary his Rule & dignity
                     Wittnesses John Jarbo      Thc said Bill by thc Jury
                            James Pattison       Endorced thus
                            Walter Pake                 Billa Vera
                            Gregory Rowse
                            Henry Aspinall
                            Daniel Hammond

                 The other Bill deliuered in by the Grand Jury
                      The Jury for the Rigt Honble the Lord Proprietary doth prsentmt
                     that Robert Dennis late of Poplar Hill in the County of St Marys
                     the 24th day of December 1665 att Wolesley Mannor in St Georges
                [p. 148] Hundred in the County aforesaid The dwelling howse of Philip Cal
                     uert Escp &c: uppon Wolesley mannot in the County aforesaid being
                     by force and Armes between the houres of 8 and 9 before noone of
                     the same day did break and Enter and one Carbine to the uallue of
                     fifteen shillings and one shirt to the uallue of two shillings feloniously
                     did steale and carry away against the peace of his said Lordsps his
                     Rule and dignity            The said Bill by the Jury
                      Wittnesses                   Endorced by us—
                         Wm Tuncks Chris: Hall          Billa Vera

                      The Grand Jury dismist
                      Then the Cryer maketh Proclamacon thus, his Lordsps Councell
                     straightly Charge and Comand all persons to keepe silence for now
                     they will proceed uppon the pleas of the Crowne to the arraignmt
                     of Prisoners uppon life and death and that all persons that haue any
                     Euidence to giue against any of the prisoners draw near and giue
                     yor attendance uppon forfeiting yot Recognizances—