50 Kent County Court Proceedings, 1648-1656.





         Liber A    mastrs hous, talkinge her shee heard Jane say, tht her
                husband had a shouldr of pork of the widdow Bright because hee
                heipt to Cane whom the hoggs, & her mrs sayd, what, the hoggs tht
                Moll Croutch saw the garbish of, & Jane swore tht it was the
                same, & tht it was for carying one horn from the new ordinarie, and
                furthr saith not

          [fol. 115] The depossition of Margret Winchestr aged 35 yeares or theare
          12 m abouts Sworne Examined & saith

                 That about the last of Octobr yor deponent was at the house of
                John Salter & his wife gaue her to Eate sum singed porcke which
                was a good groth and further saith not
               By mee John Russell this Margret Winchester
                 19th of desembr Ano 1655 her marke

                 The plaintiffes mr Eliot & Jn° Ringgold hauinge proued theire
                Charge or Complaint to the Court, which the sd plaintifes put in
                the last Court & haue moued this Court agst John Salter tht theare
                is Just Cause of suspission of Theft euident by many undeniable
                sircumstances & depossitions also makeing the susspition more
                aparant
                 The Court doth thearefore Ordr tht the sd Jn° Salter shall not
                kill any hogg or hoggs without sume twoe of his honest neighboures
                with him at the killinge of them, or bee fore the bee cut up; tht the
                may bee able to giue euidence of the marks, beeinge theareunto
                Caled & this Ordr to Remaine in force till the Court signifie their
                pleasure to the Contrary, this to bee pformd, with Court Charges els
                Execution

                 mr Wm Eliot & John Ringoll upon the forementioned declaration;
                entreat for Justice agst Wm Price also, beeinge one of the deffendants
                in this Action of suspission of Theft

                 The Depö of mr Hene Morgan aged 42 years or thearabouts
                sworn examined & saith
                 That about [blank] the deponent, went into the woods & had in
                his Company his own boy & Nicolas Pickard & Wm Price & beeinge
                in the woods the boy and price parted from thm and afterward wee
                heard a gunne goe off & Conceiued it to bee price tht shott, & in the
                Eueninge when wee mett togather at Brounes hous, yr deponent
                askt him if he kild any thinge, & hee Ansr no & swore it with bittr
                Othes, and wee wisht him if hee kild any thinge to Confesse it, but
                hee still denied tht hee kild any thinge; afterwards yr depon boy
                tht was with Price when hee shott tould the wenches what hee
                kild, but at prsent was loth to tell his mastr, but aftr the boy tould yr
                depon, tht Price shott at hoggs once & mist, & shot againe & kiled
                a markt shote of mr Southes; hearinge this yor depon went to