Provincial Court Proceedings, 1666.     61

   about tenn of the Clock the Boy dyed it being the 8th day of Feb- Liber FF
   ruary 1665                  Edwd Fuller E his marke
   Juratr Coram Curratti
       Predictatti
     The depn of John Lambent aged 25 yeares or thereabouts sworne
   & examined saith
     That upon the 9th Feb: 1665 Edwd Fuller came to yor dept howse
   and asked him to goe him to Francis Carpenters howse to see [p. 291]
   his boy buried soe yor dept went wth him and being come there
   yor dept saw the Boys eare bleed and further saith not
   Juratr Coram mee                  Josias Lambert
       Wm Coursey         True Copie Tho: Vaughan Clke
     The depositione of Edward Fuller aged 28 yeares or thereabouts
   sworne before the Gouernor & Councell on the 4th day of April 1666
   sayth
     That Michaell Bassey hired this depont to build a howse where
   Francis Carpenter liueth upon his plantacon att broad Creeke on
   the Easterne Shore and this depont comming late one night to the
   Francis Carpenters howse found one of Mr Carpenters men seruts
   bleeding much the said serut being called Samuell and demanded of
   Mr Carpenter the Cause of his seruts bleeding to wch Mr Carpenter
   replyed he commanded his said serut to gett wood and he neglected
   and thereupon did beate hime a rotten stick upon which the serut
   stooping downe it broke his head as the said Carpenter alleadgeth,
   and by Carpenters owne Confession to this dept he Collects he did
   bleed 2 houres, and further this deponant saith that he saw a Clout
   thrice washed, that had been used in drying up the blood that came
   from the said seruts head, the next morning I the sd Depont being
   in Company wth Fran: Carpenter and ueiwing the said serut de-
   manded of him how he did, to which the said serut replyed he was
   uery ill and light in his head, and upon Fran: Carpenters request
   to mee and one Nico Goosey to get some warme water to wash the
   said seruants head desired of me this depont first to wash the seruts
   head and then to Cutt of all his haire, which being done according to
   his desire found the skull plaine to be seene the place being wide the
   space of 2 fingers breadth, wth being done my Occasiones calling
   mee sometimes from Choptanck, the said Francis Carpenter desired
   of mee to returne to his habitacon to finish some building wch by [p. 292]
   agreement I was to doe for him and being in the sd Carpenters planta-
   con found the said serut Called samuell bleeding att the Eare and
   demanding the Cause thereof of Carpenter told me that he had struck
   the serut upon the Eare wch Caused him to bleed and wthin a short
   space of time after the said serut dyed   the marke of
                           Edward E Fuller
     The deposition of Josias Lambert aged 26 yeares or thereabouts
   swonne before the Gouernt and Councell 4th Apr 1666 sayth