Kent County Court Proceedings, 1656-1662.75





    That from time to tyme, mr Carline hath threatned yot depon Liber A
   to tricke him, Callinge him Jackanapes & Rascall, with many other
   abussiue speeches, & this day yor depon goinge to his house saw a
   planck that his father had often Enquired for, beeinge a half e Couer
   to a trough, to salt meate in, & seeinge the plancke stand without
   dores, knowinge his father had ocassion to usse it, toocke it up,
   & brought it away wth him, to the Cowpen & mr Carline followed
   after yor depon to the Cowpen, & ussed theese Expressions surre
   I'll teach yd to Come a theeuinge to my house, yor depon~ ans:
   the plancke is oures, hee Replied, yU lie, Rogue or surrey and theare
   upon Kickt yor depon~ under the shorte Ribbs, & with [ ] fell
   him to the ground, yo depon saide are yu on tht are to keepe
   [ ] & doe yU breacke it, upon tht hee Replied, Ill breacke it
   with [ ] & toocke up a peece of a hamacke stacke & was
   Cominge [ ] the fence to yor depon & his mother beeinge
   prsent, [ ] wheareupon mr Carlin said surre gett of the
   ground or [ ] & upon theese threats & abusses, beeinge
   fearefull of sume further mischeife & allsoe warnd to get of his
   ground, yor dep~ and [ ] was forst to Corn horn in all
   hast, & leaue the Cattell unmilckt [ ] yor depon~ goe againe
   wth his mothr to the Cattell, nor uppon [ ] tht way, & is aifraid tht
   mr Canine will on tyme or other, Tacke away if surne Cource bee
   not tacken with him, & further saith not Hasadia Hill

    The depssh of Christian Hill, the Wife of Tho: Hill aged [ ]
   yers or theareabouts, tacken in the prsents of mr Tho: Hinson [ ]
   of August 1656 sworn examined & saith
    That yor depon~ beeinge prseflt, when her sonne Hassadia
   [ ] by mT Carline, Affirmes the same, in the former depossiti
   of [ ]inge & abusinge of her sonne this day, & further saith
   tht [ ] if shee had not beene at the Cowpen, & preuented
   it, tht mr Carline [ ] lamed or mischeeued her sonne, hee
   Come in such rage & violenc [ ] Ocassioned to weigh & Con
   sider, what hath been said & done, most [ ] formerly to
   her & her Children, hee in his Raillings hauinge [ ] des
   sernblinge Carl or ould gade Ould trol [ ] wif sayd
   to mrs Hinson as shee said [ ]

    Liber B of court records is a consolidation of at least three early record booklets. Liber B
   Its present form dates probably from 1727 when Clerk James Smith inaugurated a
   series of land-records libers by transcribing from the early court books those
   entries which related to land transactions. Smith's transcriptions all cite prior
   folios which evidently are in part those of this consolidated book. Of the 109
   numbered folios (leaves) in this liber, one only is missing. The text affords sonic
   suspicion of folios lost before folio numerals were entered, but there is no clear
   evidence of such losses except where certain courts of 1660 became invalid be
   cause held without proprietary authority.