xlvi                 Introduction.

       stocks and pillorie fetching" (p. 40). As far as is known there were no boun-
       ties offered for Indian scalps at this time, nor if there had been, would the
       bounty have been such a trivial sum. It seems almost certain, however, that
       by "Indian heads" were meant the heads of wolves killed by Indians, which
       had been acquired from them by the white settlers, who were entitled to the
       wolf head bounty offered, then ioo pounds of tobacco. Emerson doubtlessly
       received 200 pounds for two wolves heads and 77 pounds for fetching the
       stocks and pillory for a meeting of the court.

                    ARCHITECTURE AND BUILDING

         Of interest to students of Colonial architecture and building will be the de-
       tails of seventeenth century construction and costs to be found in the specifica-
       tions for building the new county court house and prison erected in 1674-1675,
       and also for building details in suits for debts due for carpentering work done
       in building an addition to a dwelling house, for remodelling, and for new farm
       buildings. At the January, 1667/8, court, Thomas Alcocks, a carpenter, filed
       two suits against George Thompson, the former clerk of the court. This is the
       same Thomas Alcocks (Alcoke, Ailcock) whose wife and children had been
       killed by the Indians in 1665 (Arch. Md. LIII, li, 609). One suit was for
       2400 pounds of tobacco for a 20 X 10 foot addition to Thompson's dwelling,
       a “fourtie foot house”; the other for 1930 pounds for what seem to have been
       alterations in the dwelling itself. In addition to the 4330 pounds of tobacco
       for work sued for in the two suits, there were also asked damages of 4500
       pounds. The work done as recited in the first suit is itemized in great detail.
       The specifications were in Thompson's own hand. The house was to be “double
       raftred Studded and grounceld” and “ceeled up to the Wall plate”; there were
       to be an inside chimney (400 pounds of tobacco), five-foot closets, and four
       tables. In the second suit there was a charge of 250 pounds of tobacco for two
       windows and five doors; 250 pounds “for making a paire of welsh Staires and
       taking down of a welsh Chimney to the Wall plate, and building it with a Roof
       up.” There was also a new kitchen 6o feet long by 20 feet wide with a Welsh
       chimney and a lobs corner, at a cost of 8oo pounds. Another charge of 630
       pounds was for making a pair of racks for guns, “wind-beaming” the 40 foot
       house, and for “new covering his Dwelling house 40 foot long.” Before the
       cases were heard in court, Alcocks entered an appeal in both cases to the
       Provincial Court (pp. 113-14). As there is no record of its having been heard
       there, the matter was doubtless settled out of court before coming to trial.
       Diligent enquiry has failed to throw any light upon what was meant by “a
       paire of welsh Staires”, a “Welsh chimney”, and a “Lobs corner”. An even
       earlier mention of a Welsh chimney is to be found in the Maryland records.
       Under date of October 19, 1654, Thomas Wilford agrees, in a maintenance
       contract, to have built for the use of Paul Sympson, a house 15 x 15 feet with
       a “welsh Chimney” (Arch. Md. X, p. 302).
         At the November, 1671, court, George Godfrey sued the estate of Daniel
       Johnson, who had just died, for building work he had recently finished for