32   Provincial Court Proceedings, 1672.




            Liber J J made & provided and against the peace of his said Lopps Rule and
                 Dignity.              Charles Budd and Robt Ward

                   The Jurors for the Right honoble the Lord Proprietary upon their
                 oathes doe psent that whereas by the Law and Custome of England
                 every man is alwayes bound Safely & Securely to Keepe his Chat-
                 tell & Chattells least by such like living creatures and Chattles
                 Damage may any wayes happen to his Neighbours. Nevertheles one
             Tobyas Tobyas Miles of the Clifts in the County of Calvert the Law and
              Miles Custome aforesayd not Regarding the sixth day of May in the
                 yeare of our Lord 1671 at the Clifts in the County aforesayd
                 Knowing a certeine Dogg accustomed to bite men, and so negligently
                 and unduly did Keepe that Dogg that the said Dog the sixth day of
                 May in the yeare aforesayd, did greviously bite & sorely wound one
                 Sarrah Carre of the Clifts in the County aforesayd upon the Arme
                 and other parts of her body to the great Damage of the said Sarah
                 Carre and against the peace of the Lord Proprietary his Rule and
                 Dignity.                          Sarah Carre.

                   The Grand Jurors withdraw to Considder of the said bills, and the
                 respective witnesses to the same being called appeare & are sworne
                 in Court & sent to give Evidence for the Grand Jury.

             The Court Adjourne untill the morrow morning.

              p.504 The 11th of Aprill 1672
                          Present as before.
                   The grand Jurors come into Court and being called appeare all
                 Except Marke Cordea who having absented himself from his fel
        500 Tob. fine    low Jurors without license of the Court was by the Cort fined five
                 hundred pounds of Tobacco.
                   The said Grand Jurors make Returne of the severall Indictmts to
                 them comitted by the Court for their Consideration as followeth
                 (vizt)
                   On the backside of ye Indictmt agt Ann Pattison (Billa vera)
                   On the backside of Tobyas Miles Indictmt (Billa vera)
                   On the backside of Richard Shippey's Indictmt (Ignoramus)

                   Then was the grand Jurors Discharged.

            Richard Then was Richard Sheppey set to the barre and was acquitted by
            Shippey proclamacon and discharged by the Cort accordingly

                   Then was Ann Pattison set to the barre & arraigned upon the
                 foregoing Indictmt agt her, and upon her arraignmt she pleaded not
                 Guilty & for her tryall put her self upon the Country, wherefore
                 comand was given to the Sheriff of St Maryes County that he cause
                 to come twelve &c by whom &c to make a certeine Jury imediately