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      formerly accustomed to be used by severall people of the same Liber J J
      hundred By the informacon of William Claw of the same hundred.
        Amy Markes of Poplar Hill in St Maryes County Spinster for
      having a bastard Childe the 31th day of January last paste by the
      informacon of Thomas Bennet of the same hundred.
        The said Presentmt was signed by the proper hands of the afore
      named Grand Jurors sixteene in Number, and by them Exhibited
      into Court the Court upon Receiving of ye same Discharged the said
      Grand Jurors.
        Then was Richard Robinson Philip Lynes George Taylour Ellen
      Taylor Robert Clerke & Mary Clerke set to the barre, and were
      araigned of ye said felony according to the forme of the foregoing
      Indictmt, and Severally pleaded not guilty and for their tryalls put
      themselves upon the Country and the Jurors of life and Death being
      called that is to say James Neale Junr George Walker Thomas
      Hussey Henry More Nicholas Guither Randall Revell William
      Whittle John Barnes Leonard Greene Thomas Bowdle William
      Smith & William Claw, and the prisoners making no objection
      against them they were all Respectively sworne according to the
      Tenor of the usuall oath, and the Evidence against them being called
      that is to say Peter Jacobsin & John Allen, and the said Peter being p. 500
      a youth & not capable of an oath was not sworne, but the said John
      Allen being sworne, and giving Evidence to the Court and the Jury
      touching the Fellony aforesaid of wth the prisoners stood indicted
      & the Jurors having fully heard the same & what the prisoners could
      say for themselves the Jurors withdrew to Consult of their Verdict,
        who imediately Retorning, Richard Robinson Philip Lynes George
      Taylour Ellen Taylour Robert Clerke & Mary Clerke being set to
      the barre, and the Jurors being asked if Richard Robinson were
      guilty of the felony whereof he stood indicted on not guilty, the
      Jurors answered not guilty—whereupon the principall Robinson being
      acquitted the Jury were not asked as to the accessaryes—but procla
      mation was imediately made that if any manner of person could in
      forme the Court or the Attorney General of any Treason Murder or
      felony comitted or done by Richard Robinson Philip Lynes George
      Taylour Ellen Taylour Robert Clerke or Mary Clerke or any of them
      now Prisoners at the barre let them come forth and they should be
      heard for the prisoners stood at the barre upon this Deliverance.
      wch being made three times in open Court & no one appearing, It is
      ordered by the Court that although the prisoners are acquitted by
      proclamacon they shall not be discharged but in Reguard the Crime
      for wch they were Indicted by apparent circumstances Seemed to
      the Court to have beene Really comitted by them, and that the Jury
      acquitted them only for want of some Evidence, that the said Rich
      ard Robinson Philip Lynes George Taylour Ellen Taylour Robert