48        Provincial Court Proceedings, 1672.

           Liber J J     petr from the same you will forever binde him to pray for your
                 Excllyes health honor and happiness long to Governe us.
                   This peticion being prsented to his Excellency in open Court his
                 Excellency is gratiously pleased & does ordr that his punnishmt be
                 remitted according to the prayer of the peticion, provided he pay
                 Damages to the ptyes agreived according to the Act of Assembly
                 and his ifees. and the said James Neale Junr imediately in open Cort
                 upon his Knees thanked his Exclly for such his Clemency & mercy
                 and prayed for the Lord Proprietary

        James Neale James Neale Senr being called appeares. who desired Councell to
                 be assigned him by the Court, who ordered Mr Morecroft one of
                 the Attorneys of the Court to be of Councill for the prisoner who
                 put in this plea following in writing.
                   And the said James Neale Senr cometh and saith that the said
                 Lord Proprietary him the said James upon the said Accãn of
                 Indictmt ought not or will not Greive or impeach because by ptesta
                 tion he saith the Indictmt is not sufficient in Law to put him the said
                 James to answere thereunto, Notwithstanding for a plea he saith
                 that whatsoever is Contrary to the Act of Assembly aforesayd he
                 is in no wayes guilty in manner & forme as by the said Indictmt
                 aforesayd above is supposed and of this he puts himself upon the
                 Country, and Vincent Low Attorney General who for the said
                 Lord Proprietary in this behalfe followeth for the said Lord Pro
                 prietary likewise, and the Sheriff of St Maryes County having as
                 he was Comanded retorned a Petty Jury for the tryall of prisoners
                 who being called appeared to wit Willm Harris Richard Atwood
                 Thomas Doxey Nicholas Guither Richard Bayley Henry Bedford
                 William King Guy White ffrancis Gunbee Richard Ackworth John
                 Symonds Henry Smith and Richard Smith, who being Elected tryed
                 & sworne to try the truth in the premises upon their oathes doe say
                 that the said James Neale Senr, is not guilty of the hoggstealing
                 whereof he hath beene Indicted and so they say all, whereupon the
                 said James Neale Sent was acquitted by proclamation, and by the
                 Court Discharged paying his ffees

                 Thomas Hackleeton The Sheriff of St Maryes County being Co
                 Wm Swetnam & manded to set Thomas Hackleton William
                 Samuell Lester Swetnam and Samuell Lester to the barre were
                 for the fellony aforesayd araigned and upon their Arraignmt pleaded
                 not guilty and for their tryall put themselves upon the Country. and
                 the Sheriff of St Maryes County having as he was Comanded re
                 torned a petty Jury for the tryall of prisoners, who being called
                 appeared to wit Richard Smith Alexandr Draper Richard Atwood
                 Nicholas Guither Richard Bayly Henry Bedford William King Guy
                 White ffrancis Gunbee Richard Ackworth John Simons and Henry