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      misdemeanors & Threatning words, he did then & there utter vizt Liber J J
      as that he the said Renny would burne the house and goods of ye
      said Johnson Contrary to his Lopps peace and his Rule & Dignity.
      Evidences                  G Vanswearingen.
      Thomas Motley          Endorsed Billa Vera.
      Henry Harman

        The Grand Jury in the behalfe of the Right honoble the Lord Pro
      prietary doth prsent Thomas Beson of Ann Arundell County for Thomas
      that he the said Thomas Before in & about the Tenth day of March Beson
      in ye 40th yeare of the Dominion of the honoble Caecilius Anncxp
      Domini 1671 Did suffer & ordr Christopher Spry and John Philips
      servants to Bryan Dayley to passe contrary to his Lopps peace and
      an act of Assembly in that case provided. G Vanswearingen

        The Jurors for the Right hono the Lord Proprietary upon p. 510
      their oathes doe prseflt that James Lewis of St Michaells hundred James Lewis
      in the County of St Maryes planter not having the feare of God
      before his Eyes but being moved & seduced by the Instigation of
      the Devill and little weighing the fidelity he oweth to the said Lord
      Proprietary and the Lawes of this Province little Esteeming nor
      the Paines in them Conteyned at all fearing the Six & Twentieth
      day of July last in the One & fortieth yeare of his said Do
      minion and Diverse times both before & since at the house of
      Thomas Doxey in the hundred & County aforesayd malitiously
      falsely & of his owne proper Imagination these false Scandalous
      words & Rumours of the Governor & Chancelor of this Province and
      of Colt William Calvert One of his Councellors of this Province
      and one of the Justices of the Provinciall Cort of this Province did
      utter (vizt) that the Governor Chancelor & ye sd Coil Wm Calvert
      were all Rouges & that ye said Colt was a Bastard, all wth words
      although they are false he reported as truth and many other Scan
      dalous words he then & there did utter & publish against the peace
      of his said Lopp his Rule & Dignity and Contrary to an act of Assem
      bly in that case made & provided Vincent Lowe.
      Elizabeth Greene
      Thomas Brimson
                               Endorsed (Billa Vera)
      John Burridge
      Christopher Spry


        The Grand Jurors were Dismissed & James Lewis brought into
      Cort.
        The foregoing Indictmt Reade to James Lewis who pleaded not
      guilty and put himself upon the Country, and the Sheriff retorning
      the Jurors names there appeared Joseph Chew William Dunkerton
      Thomas Walker Alexander Draper Abell James & Demetrius Cart-