42 Kent County Court Proceedings, 1648-1656.








         Liber A mr Henery Carline Complaines against mrs Broadnox in an Action
              of deffamation & hath pdust twoe wittneses to proue his Complaint
              The deffendant dessires a Refference to the next Court, then & theare
              to be Issued, & determined, Which the Court is pleassed to graunt

               mr Wm Eliot & John Ringgolde Complaine against John Salter
              Wiliam Price & Jane the wife of John Salter in an action of suspison
              theft many hoges beeing lost amongst the neighbors & sume of theire
              own hoges gone tht ussed about whom very strangly of a suden; &
              pork offten seene in theire house & had no hogs of theire owne to
              kill other pticulars susspissious about killinge of hoggs & hauing
              porke in theire house as sumtymes denieinge sumetymes affirminge,
              off & on, in their Answers, with many other sircumstances giuinge
              Just ocassion of suspission and moreouer A peece of Porck singed
              & fatt tacken in the serch by the Constabl & shoed in Court at the
              board, Could no way bee Conceud to bee as the defendant ansrs
              to the Charge; tht this thick fatt singed peece of meat was part of a
              wild small hog tht was kild; the eares weare demanded in Court, the
              plaintife Arnsr was, tht hee layd them by him, & the dogge eat them
               mr Eliot plaintiffe dessires the parties or defendants may bee
              examined apart that twoe of the three may bee tacken away, whis is
              graunted

              Que Wm price Examind; Q: wheare had you all this mete tht hath
               from tyme to tyme been seene in yor house, hauinge no hogs of
               yor own to kill

              Ans: I kild none but hee kild a Couple, & then one, the eares are at
               hom but the doggs eate the eares of one (it was Replied) but piggs
               & small shotes are not fatt porke. his ans proue yor Charge I'll
               answr the law or suffer the law
              Que~ When weare the kild & wheare weare the kild
              Ans~ One was kild about Octobr & dessembr theareaboutes (wheare)
               about the house mr Loid said: It apeares yu ki!d a wild hogg or
               hoggs make it apeare by the eares or satisfie the law; (price) I
               kild not this hogge; hee sayth it was a wild hogg
              Que John Salter Examined when kild yu those hoggs & what Colour
               wear the
              Ans~ I kild one, two monethes agoe; on I kild was whit another
               grisled & I kild one sow shote of a yeare and a halfe ould tht
               this peece is of; (was this peece unmarkt) ay and it was of this
               tht the dogg eate the eares

              Depösi
               Mrs Francis Morgan aged 30 yeares or theareaboutes sworn ex
              amined and saith That the moron after Leo was buried Jane Salter
              Cothinge to yor deponents house shee asked her if shee had kild any
              hogg alate tht yor deponent might borrow sume; shee sayd no; yor
              deponent asked her, then wheare had thu the singed porke tht was