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        And the said Attorney Generall Vincent Lowe Esq who aswell Liber J J
       &c likewise, wherefore Comand is given to the Sheriff of St Maryes
       County that he cause to come twelve &c by whom the issue Joined
       may be tryed because aswell &c.
        And the Jurors of that Jury came to wit James Neale Junt George
       Walker Thomas Hussey Henry More Nicholas Guither John Barnes
       Leonard Greene Thomas Bowdle William Smith William Claw,
       Daniel Clocker & Walter Waterlin, who being Elected tryed & sworne
       to say the truth in the prmises. upon their oathes doe say that the
       said Justinian Gerard is not Guilty of the hoggstealing in the said Justinian
       Indictmt mentioned, whereupon the said Justinian Gerard was ac-       ac
       quitted by proclamacon. & the Court discharged him paying his
       ffees.

        Then was Randall Revell of Somerset County one of ye Jurors fine 500l
       betweene ye Lord Proprietary & the said Gerard not appearing fined Tob
       500' Tob.


        Then was also William Whittle of St Maryes County fined 100l of fine 100l
       Tob for being Drunke in Court.              Tob

        Then was John Glover of Charles County acquitted by pclamation
       for accidentally Killing John Brimblecum, and by the Court
       discharged

        Then came John Nicholls of St Maryes County & pleaded not John
       guilty as to the prsentmt against him in October last. & the same Nicholls
       was put in Respit untill the next Court.

        Then was Richard Sheppey for hogstealing prsented by the grand
       inquest for the same comitted into the custody of the Sheriff of
       St Maryes County
        Then was Charles Budd & Robert Ward both of St Maryes County
       bound in a Recognizance of sterling a peice, to psecute ye said
       Richard Sheppey for hogstealing the next Provincial Court.

        Venire fac then issued to the Sheriff of St Maryes County to
       Comand him to cause to come before ye Justices of this Court the
       next Court to wit the ninth day of Aprill next Wm Greengo Richard
       Sheppey Thomas Paine & Amy Markes, to answere what they are
       severally prseflted for

       At a Provincial Court of the Right hono :ble Caecilius absolute Lord p. 502
       and Proprietary of the Provinces of Maryland and Avalon Lord