26       Provincial Court Proceedings, 167 1/2.

           Liber J J The Clerke satisfyed the prisoner that those prsons that were last
                 called were to passe upon his life and his Death, therefore if he had
                 any thing to object against them or any of them he might Challenge
                 them as he saw them come to the booke.
                   The said Jurors being called Every one by his name severally
                 answered thereunto & were respectively sworne that they should well
                 and truly try and true Deliverance make betweene the Right honoble
                 the Lord Proprietary and the prisoner at the barre whom they should
                 have in Charge according to their Evidence.
           p.    [499b] The said Philip Lynes being againe araigned, and the Evidence
                 against him being sworne (vizt Richard Robinson) to give Evidence
                 to the Cort & the Jury touching the prmises. he declared the same
                 upon oath the prisoner having also spoke for himself, and the
                 Court having summed up the matter and given it in Charge to the
                 Jury, the Jury withdrew to consider of their verdict.
                   who imediately Returning, and the said Philip Lynes being set
                 to the barre, and the said Jurors being Respectively called by their
                 names Every man answered thereunto. and the Clerk Demanded
                 of them if Philip Lynes were guilty of the felony & burglary whereof
                 he stood Indicted or not Guilty the said Jurors answered (not
                 Guilty) nor that he did ffly for it.
                   The prisoner being cleared of this Crime was againe by the Court
                 continued in the Sheriff of St Maryes Custody to answere another
                 Indictmt preferred against him this Court.

                   Then did the Grand Jurors Retorne the Indictmt against Justinian
                 Gerard for hogstealing Endorsed thus—vizt (Billa Vera)
                   Then also did they retorne the Indictmt against Richard Robinson
                 before recited as principall & Philip Lynes George Taylor Ellen
                 Taylour Robert Clerke and Mary Clerke as accessaryes Endorsed
                 thus (Billa Vera)
                   Then also did they Exhibite to the Court this prsentmt following
                 vizt
                   Maryland ss The Jurors for the Right hono :ble the Lord Proprie
                 tary of this Province for the body of this Province being sumoned,
                 and sworne the thirteenth day of this Instant month of ffebruary
                 in the 40th yeare of his Lopps Dominion &c upon their oathes doe
                 prseflt
                   Richard Sheppey of St Clements Hundred in the County of
                 St Maryes planter for hoggstealing the 21th day of January last past
                 by the informacon of Charles Budd Robert Ward & Robert iford
                 of the same County planters.
                   Thomas Paine of St Michaells Hundred in the County of
                 St Maryes for stopping up the passage to the waterside to St
                 Jeromes Creeke the sixth day of this instant month of ffebruary