Provincial Court Proceedings, 1669.     603

     freemen of the said province to make a jury to know the truth of Liber JJ
     the premisses Because aswell the said John Morecroft Attorny of the
     said Lord Proprietary who for the said Lord proprietary prosecuteth
     in this behalfe as also the said Henry Gottney and Peter Bawcomb
     have putt themselves upon the same jury
       And afterwards the same day to witt the said twentith day of De-
     cember in the yeare aforesaid came the said John Morecroft Attorny
     of the said Lord Proprietary who for the said Lord Proprietary in
     this behalfe prosecuteth and the said Henry Gottney and Peter
     Bawcomb being againe brought to the barr of the said Court and
     appeareing in their proper persons and the jurors aforesaid by the
     said Sheriff of St Maries County being impannelled and called namely
     Thomas Cosden William Kent John Cobreth Jeremiah Markham
     Thomas Hussey Henry Hawkins Richard Morris Thomas Hinton
     Samuel Dickeson George Marshall John Beale and John Heard
     likewise came and the said indictment being then and there read and
     the wittnesses to prove the said indictment to witt Henry Tripp Ed-
     ward Cooke and Mathew Wilson being sworne and examined to
     speake the truth according to their severall knowledges about and
     concerning the premisses being heard and the said Henry Gottney and
     Peter Bawcomb (being required to make their defence thereunto)
     being heard likewise the said Jurors upon their Oathes say that the
     said Henry Gottney and peter Bawcomb are not guilty of the
     premisses in the said indictment specified
       Whereupon Ordered that the said Joseph Thompson who hath con-
     fest himselfe guilty and putt himselfe upon the mercy of the Court
     goe quitt of the said presentment and Henry Gottney (proclamation
     being made and none appeareing further to prosecute) be also ac-
     quitted and the said Peter Bawcomb bound to his good abearance for
     twelve months.

       The Jurors for the Lord Proprietary of this Province doe pre-
     sent Nicholas Cheyney of Dorcester County in the province of Mary-
     land servant to Raymond Stapelfort for that he the said Nicholas
     the twentith day of June last in the xxxviiith yeare of the Dominion
     of Caecilius &c did feloniously take carry away and dispose off One
     cloath coate of the value of five shillings frö his master Raymond
     Stapelfort from the landing of Charles Ballard of Monoakin the said
     Coate iyeing there in his the said Stapelforts boate Contrary to his
     Löpps peace Rule and dignity.
       And afterwards to witt the twentith day of December in the said
     eight and thirtith yeare of his said Löpps Dominion &c Annop Dom
     one thousand six hundred sixty nine Comand was given by the Court
     to the Sheriff of st Maries County to bring the said Nicholas Cheney
     prisoner then in his Custody to the barr of the said Court who ap-
     peareing in his proper person and holding up his hand, the abovesaid