Provincial Court Proceedings, 1669.     605

     aforesaid to answer the abovesaid presentment the said Silvanus Liber JJ
     Came and the said Adam Head likewise
       Proclamacon being then made and none appeareing to prosecute
     the said presentment it is therefore Ordered that he be quitt of the
     same presentment. and that Adam Head be comitted to the custody
     of the Sheriff of St Maries County until] he give security for his good
     abearance untill the eightenth day of October next being the first day
     of the next provinciall Court.

       Upon Complaint made to his Lopps justices here to witt the
     fiftenth day of December in the xxxviiith yeare of the Dominion of
     Caecilius &c by Sarah Cole That John Griffith servant to Thomas
     Paine of St Maries County hath offered her severall abuses, where-
     upon it was then Ordered that the said Thomas Paine cause to come
     here to witt on the morrow next after the said fiftenth day of Decem-
     ber the said John Griffith his servant to answer the said Complaint
     at which day came the said John Griffith and the said Sarah Cole like-
     wise, and the said Sarah refuseing further to prosecute her said
     Complaint Ordered the said John Griffith goe quitt and the said
     Complaint quashed.

       The Jurors for the Lord Proprietary doe present That Henry
     Mitchell of the Clifts in the County of Calvert planter the twentith
     day of October in the eight and thirtith yeare of his Lopps Dominion
     &c att the Clifts in the County of Calvert aforesaid was and yet is a
     Comon Barretor, a dayly and publique disturber of the peace of the
     said Lord Proprietary a comon and turbulent Calumniator, a Re-
     proacher, a fighter, a sower of striffes and discords amongst his
     neighbours so that he hath moved procured and stirred up divers
     striffes brawlings and fightings then and there and at other places
     elsewhere amongst the good people of the said Lord Proprietary to
     the great disturbance of the said Lord proprietaryes Peace contrary
     to his rule and dignity
       Afterwards to witt the twentith day of December in the said eight [p.463]
     and thirtith yeare of his said Lopps Dominion &c and in the yeare
     One thousand six hundred sixty nine came the said Henry Mitchael
     in his proper person and traversed the aforesaid presentment, where-
     upon it was then Ordered that Comand be given to the Sheriff of
     Calvert County that he cause to come here to witt at St Maries the
     eighth day of February next twelve good and lawfull men of the
     neighbourhood by whom the truth of the matter may be the better
     knowne, &c.
       And afterwards to witt the same twentith day of December the
     said Henry Mitchael appeareing in his proper person and shewing
     to the Court here that he is not willing to plead with his Lopp the