18   Provincial Court Proceedings, 1671.




           Liber j j  Province of Maryland aforesaid the five and twentieth day of Octo
                  ber in the yeare of our Lord God One Thousand Six hundred
                  Seaventy and one not having the feare of God before his Eyes but
                  being led by the Instigation of the Devill with force and armes &
                  of his mallice prpensed at the house of John Barrell on the South
                  side of West River in the County aforesaid about the houre of
                  Eight in the Evening in &. upon one John Beck then & there in
                  the peace of God & ye sd Lord Propry being feloniously did make
                  an assault and the aforesaid John Beck with a staffe of the vallue
                  of One penny which the said ffrancis Tyler in his hands then and
                  there had and held, the said John feloniously did strike and gave
             p. 494   to the said John upon his head a certeine wound of the length of
                  One Inch and of the breadth of One Inch and a halfe of which
                  Mortall wound the said John Beck instantly dyed, and so the Jurors
                  aforesayd say that the aforesaid ffrancis Tyler the 25th day afore
                  said in the year aforesaid at the house aforesayd in the County afore
                  sayd the said John Beck feloniously did slay & Kill Contrary to ye
                  peace of the said Lord Propry his Rule and Dignity.
                                           John Beck Arthur Carleton
                                           & John Barwe!l witnesses.

                  Maryland ss Let it be inquired for the Right honoble the Lord
              Mary Propfy if Mary Stevens of St Georges Hundred in the County of
              Stevens St Maryes Spinster on the day of July in the yeare of our Lord

                  God One Thousand Six hundred Seaventy One being greate with
                  Childe of a Certeine living infant in the County aforesaid by the
                  providence of God did labour with Childe and did bring forth One
                  living Childe, and that afterwards the said Mary Stevens by force
                  and Armes and of her mallice before thought of did Kill and Mur
                  ther the said Childe Contrary to the peace of ye said Lord Propry his
                  Rule and Dignity and against the forme of the statute in that case
                  made & provided:
                                John Coman Tho Dent & Hen: Hyde witnesses

                    Let it be Enquired for the Right honoble the Lord Propry whether
            Justinian Justinian Gerard the fifth day of October 1671 two hoggs of the
            Gerard goods and Chattells of John Gouldsmith of Bramly in the County

                  St Maryes then and there found feloniously did take Kill and Carry
                  away Contrary to his Lopps peace his Rule & Dignity.
                                       Anthony Thompson
                                                      witnesses.
                                       Thomas Lord

                    The respective witnesses to ye foregoing Indictmts being severally
                  called appeared and were by the Court sworne, and sent to give
                  Evidence to the Grand Inquest.
            fined 1500l James Veitch .
               Tob. W    li   being retorned of ye grand Jury not appearing
                    a er a er ing leach fined 500 lb Tob.
                  Stephen Merly