Charles County Court Proceedings, 1658-1662.     237

     John Wood sworne and Examined in open Court sayeth Concern- Liber A
    ing hogstealing that while bee liued with Mr Baker hee was on day
    beating and Mr Baker Called him to the door and sayd hee was sory
    thear was no meat in the hows but it shoold not bee so long for then
    it was a busie time in the Crope and shortly after hee and Empson
    went out and braught home a hogge but this deponant Cannot Cer
    tamely tell of what marke it was of, and a good while after it beeing
    a season thay wear stricking tobacco and in the afternoone the season
    breaking up, Mr Baker and Empson went into the woods, and was so
    late that Empsons wife sayd shee wondered whear thay weare, in the
    duskish of the Euening thay braught home a hoge and said thay had
    braught it aboue four miles up hill and downe hill it was singed but
    this deponant saw not the marke, and further sayeth not:

     Whearupon the Plantiue hauing let fall his suit the defendant most
    humbly Craueth a nonsuit with Cost and Charge of suit whis was
    granted It is thearfor Ordered that the Plantiue shoold bee nonsuited
    and pay the Cost and Charge of suit:

   Mr William Batten Atturney this suit is to bee continued by
     to Mr William Hardick Plantiue mutuall Consent untill the next
   Mr John Neuill Atturney to     Court held in Charleses Countie
     the Administrator of which is one the last in Septem
     Samuell Lambert deceased ber to bee Aoq Doni 1662

     To the Worshipfull Commissioners of Charleses Countie the [p.231]
    humble Petition William Robisson Sheweth
     That Whearas your Petitioner the last Court was bound to enter
    into bond that bee shoold not hunt in any part of Charleses Countie
    with Either dogge or Gune unles sum one of his neighbours wear in
    Companie with him for only hauing as Mr Thomas Hussey Affirmed
    upon Oath a hoge new marked into your Petitioners marke in his
    bows your Petitioner thearfore most humbly intreateth your wor
    ships to put it to the Proofe that your Petitioner mismarked the
    same, for it may bee that the sayd Hussey out of Malice new marked
    the same, which if your Petitioner had found him dooing of it (unles
    hee coold haue diued into the sayd Husseys thaughts bee coold not
    haue blamed him by reson it was not marked into any other marke
    then that which is your Petitioners Proper marke and also your Peti
    tioner most humbly entreateth your worships to resolue him wheather
    Mr Baker bee licensed by his place to doe that in publicke that in an
    other is Culpable and further entreateth your worships to resolue
    him why Mr Baker was not also bound not to hunt with Either Doge
    or Gune without sum one hows keeper or other in his Companie see
    ing that hee himself Confessed to haue new marked a hoge bringing
    and showing the Eares in Court and also braught testimonie with
    him that hee did it if it was because nobodie did desire it Now I
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