198        Provincial Court Proceedings, 1667.

        Liber FF Wittnesses that were sworne in Court
                            John Barker
                Geo: Landman     Patrick Allen
                   Walter Spencer Henry East
                   George Noakes

        [p. 489] The petty Jury hauing their Charge giuen went forth to Con-
              sider thereof and after a while returned againe into Court, & deliuered
              in theire Verdict (uizt) That the said Henry Mitchell Joseph James
              nor John Boulton was not Guilty of what they stand indicted wthall,
              Whereupon ProclamaEon being made There were all Cleer'd by the
              Court

               The Grand Jury finding last Court as well Patrick Hinderson of
              aheap stealing Guilty as the said Mitchell James & Boulton of hogg
              stealing, and there indictmt being drawne to be put into the Court, wth
              the uallue of the sheap incerted as was Ordered last Prouinall Court,
              which uallue the Court understanding was but 12 pence and soe de-
              clared to the Jury by Richard Bayly the Owner of the said sheap,
              whereupon the Court thought fitt to quitt the said Hinderson of the
              said Indictmt & cleer'd him in Court

               Tobias Norton being suthoned to giue in an accompt of the Estate
              of the orphants in his possession, who hath deliuered in an Inuentory
              thereof which was allowed of for sd accompt

               James Came and Mary his wife Relict to Wm Bosman deceased
              being suthoned to giue an accompt of the Estate of the orphants
              of the said Boshmans, appeares in Court
               Ordered that Thomas Nottley & John Morecroft gent doe Audite
              the Accompts of the said Estate & deliuer in theme report thereof by
              tomorrow morning

                       Court adjourn'd till tomorrow morning

                       June the fifth—All prsent as yesterday

               The petty Jury findes Tho: How and Phillis his wife Guilty of
              a rescue made by them in the Execucon of an Attachment made by
              the sherriffe of Caluert County in doeing of which the said How and
              his wife did strike the said High Sherriffe as alleadg'd by Richard
              Collett in the returne of the said wnitt of Attachment which returne
              is as followeth
        [p. 490] By uertue of this writt I haue attached in the handes of Tho:
              How all Goods that he hath in his Custody belonging to John Bayley
              on the 18th day of May 1667, but not brought to ueiw or apprized
              by reason the said Tho: How & Phillis his wife wth force & armes
              made an Assault upon Mee Richard Collett sherriffe of Caluert
              County in the Execucon of the wthin written writt of Attachmt, and