604        Provincial Court Proceedings, 1669.

        Liber jj   indictment being read, the value of the Coate specified therein being
              under forty shillings it was adjudged by the justices here that the
              said Nicholas Cheney be quitt of the abovesaid presentment and that
              the said presentment be quashed.

              December xxth MDClxix
                Thomas Taylor Sheriff of Dorcester County presented the Court
              this account of Fees following vizt.
                from peter Bawcomb for imprisonment from the 3d l tob
              of July till the xxth of December at xxth tobacco p day... 03400
                from Joseph Tompson for imprisonment for the same
              terme at twenty pounds tobacco p day    03400
                from Henry Gottney for imprisonment for the same
              tenme at twenty pounds tobacco p day  03400
         [p. 462] from Nicholas Cheney for imprisonment from the l tob
              third of August till the twentith of december at twenty 02980
              pound of tobacco p day
                Ordered by the Court that the severall Fees due from the severall
              and respective persons be allowed the said Sheriff according to Act
              of Assembly.

                Memorandum that the fourth day of August in the xxxviiith yeare
              of the Dominion of Caecilius &c Annoq Dom MDClxix upon Com-
              plaint made by Adam Head to Thomas Dent Gent one of his Löpps
              justices for the County of st Maries against Silvanus Gilping touch-
              ing a Supposed rape attempted to be committed on the body of Re-
              becca Frizell the said Silvanus Gilpen being bound by recognizance
              to his Lopp in the summe of three thousand pounds of tobacco to
              appeare before his Lópps justices of his Provinciall Court here to
              witt the fiftenth day of December in the yeare aforesaid, who ap-
              peareing in his proper person to answer the premisses came and the
              said Adam Head likewise, and the said Rebecca Frizell and Isabella
              Cooper wittnesses to prove the charge being sworne and examined
              to speake the truth touching the premisses being heard, it was ad-
              judged by the justices here That the said Silvanus is not culpable
              of the Supposed Rape as aforesaid and that of the said Complaint he
              be quitt, And afterwards to witt the xviith day of the same December
              in the yeare aforesaid The Jurors for the said Lord proprietary doe
              present the said Silvanus Gilping for that he the said Silvanus the
              second day of August in the yeare aforesaid did by force and anmes
              make an attempt on the naked body of Rebecca Frizell with intent
              to have carnall Copulation with her, contrary to his Löpps Peace
              Rule and dignity
                Afterwards at a provinciall Court of the said Lord proprietary
              held at St Maries to witt the eighth day of February in the yeare