20   Provincial Court Proceedings, 1671.




          Liber J J The said Jurors being called Every One by his name severally
                 answered thereunto and were Respectively sworne that they should
                 well & truly try and true Deliverance make betweene ye Right
                 hono :ble the Lord Proprietary & ffrancis Tyler prisoner at the barre
                 according to their Evidence.
                   The said ffrancis Tyler being againe arraigned, and the Evidences
                 against him being called vizt John Beck Arthure Carleton and John
                 Barwell appearing & being sworne to give Evidence agt the said
                 ffrancis Tyler accordingly did declare their Knowledges touching the
                 death of the said John Beck, and the said ffrancis Tyler having
                 liberty to Speake for himself The said Jurors withdraw to Consult
                 upon their verdict.
                   who imediately appearing, and the said ffrancis Tyler being
                 set to the barre, and the said Jurors being called by their names Every
                 man answereth thereunto, and being asked by the Clerke if ffrancis
                 Tyler were guilty of the ffelony whereof he had beene Indicted or
                 not guilty.
                   The foreman answereth—Not guilty and so they say all The Clerke
                 demanded of the Jury if he did fly for it. they reply not to their
                 Knowledge
                   The Clerk Demanded of ye Jury how John Beck named in the
                 said Indictmt came by his death they say that ffrancis Tyler Killed
                 the said John Beck with a Tobacco stick in his own Defence.
                   Whereupon pclamation was made that if any pson could Informe
                 his Lopps Justices or the Attorney Generall of any Treason murder
                 or felony Comitted by the said ffrancis Tyler let them come forth &
                 they should be heard for the prisoner stood at the barre upon his
                 Deliverance, No pson appearing the said ffrancis Tyler acquitted
                 by pclamation.

             p. 496 Then was Mary Stevens set to ye barre arraigned pleaded not
             Mary Stevens guilty & for her Tryall put herself upon the Country, and the last
           quitted by named Jurors being called & sworne & yt witnesses against her (vizt)
           pclamation Thomas Dent and Henry Hyde being likewise sworne, and the

                 Court Examining the busines fully finde no proofe of the said In
                 dictmt whereupon the said Mary was quitted by pclamation

                   Then was Justinian Gerard brought by the Sheriff and the former
                 indictmt against him for hoggstealing being pused by the Court
                 & found insufficient, was by the Court quashed, and Ordered that
                 the Attorney General Draw up a new Indictmt agt the said Gerard,
                 agt the next Court and that in the Interim the said Gerard Give
                 security to appeare here the thirteenth day of ffebruary next to
                 answere the prmises

                 Justinian Gerard acknowledges to owe & stand indebted to the
                 Lord Propry in the sume of 50½ to be Leavyed &c.