Provincial Court Proceedings, 1666.     69

      Ordered a Jury be impanell'd to goe on the merritts of the whole Liber FF
    Cause
      Sher. returnes his warrt and warned
    Foreman Walter Hall James Veitch
        John Auery    Tho: Wynne
                                    All Called and
        Tho: Studd    Tho: Paggett
                                    Answered to
        John Bayley   John Gittings
                       theire Names
        Reymd staple fort    Edmd Beachamp
        William Cole  Robert King

      Theire Charge giuen as followeth
      Whether Lister were shipped by Gilson and imployed by Gilson
    and how much wages due for how much time
      hauing their Charge they wthdrew

      The Jury hauing agreed on theire Verdict Returnes into Court
    And deliuers in this ensueing paper          [p. 306]
      To the Honble Gouernor & Councell
      The Jury humbly desires an Ordr for theire Charges according
    to the Custom in such Cases
      Which by the Board was allowed
      They then deliuered in theire uerdict (uizt) The Jury doth finde
    that Lister was shipped & imployed by the Mastt John Gilson foure
    months and odd dayes att 4os p month
      Ordered it be Entred for Judgmt The money being Computed to
    be Nine pounds Eighte shillings stef: To be sattisfyed by Jn0 Gillson
           Wm Lister Bill of Charge
         Attendance 5 dayes          150
         Sherr                       150 720 lb tob
         Attorney Fee                6o
         Jury                        360
                                Allowed by the Board

    To the honble the Gouernor & Councell of the Prouince of Maryland
      Richard Hyde Complaines agst John Gilson of Kingsale in the
    Kingdome of Ireland for that whereas the said John Gilson hired
    the said Richard Hyde as a marriner in the Hopewell of Kingsale
    for and in Consideracon of which the said Gilson did assume upon
    himself e to pay unto the said Hyde twenty Eight shillings p month
    wages and for that whereas the said Richd Hyde for and during
    the space of four months and twenty dayes or thereabouts in the
    said Hopewell of Kingsale did sayle and the labor of a marriner did
    doe, whereby there became due unto the said Hyde, the sume of six
    pounds twelue shillings which said sume of six pounds twelue shil-
    lings Though he hath been often thereunto required to pay yet doth [p. 307]
    deney and refuse to pay the same unto yor petr whereby yor petr is
    dampnifyed to the uallue of fourteene pounds sterling