50   Provincial Court Proceedings, 1672.




            Liber J J Thomas Knighton one of the Attorneys of this Court being
            Knighton accused for falsefying a writ out of this Cort after it was under the
                  lesser seale of this Province & signed by the Clerke, and the said
                  Knighton humbly Confessing such his misdemeneanor submitted
                  himself to the mercy of the Court, who this day ordered that the said
                  Knighton be Discharged of his place of an Attorney in this Court,
                  and never more psume to practise in this Province, but impose no
                  fine upon him quia pauper.
          John Owen George Beckwith of Calvert County made oath in open Cort, that
          servt to Mr Beckworth his servant John Owen absented himself from his service fifty dayes,
                  and therefore craved Judgt agt him according to act of Assembly,
                  and the said John Owen being prsent in Cort and the Court Comput
                  ing the time, ordered the said John Owen to serve the said George
                  Beckwith faithfully untill the last of January next & then to be free

            Jeremiah The Cort being informed that Jeremiah Harrington of St Maryes
          Harrington County is a pson of Evill life and Conversation and that he hath
                  much abused his wife it being to be feared that he may murder her.
                  It is by the Court ordered that the said Harrington remaine a pris
                  oner in the hand of the Sheriff of St Maryes County untill he shall
                  finde sufficient Manucaptors for his good behaviour

         Wittm Price Wm Price of Baltamore County being retorned for a Juror, and
                  being called appeares, and being Drunke and not fitting to serve the
                  Cort Comanded the Sheriff of St Maryes County to set him in the
                  stocks for half e an hour for such his contempt.

              Joseph Then was Joseph OKeen called to the barre and no pson appearing
              OKeene to psecute Effectually the said OKeen was acquitted by pclamation,

                  and by the Cort Discharged paying his fees.

         John Renny Then did Mr John Morecroft appeare to ye prsefltmt agt John
                  Renny and time was given in ye same busines untill the next Pro
                  vincial Cort.
          John Griffins John Griffen accused for hoggstealing the Indictmt not being
              Recog Ready, the same was referred untill the next Provincial Cort. and
                  the said John Griffen bound in 10l sterling for his appearance then
                  & his good abearance in the meane time & Thomas Griffin and Thomas
                  Wynn his Manucaptors did undertake for him in the sume of five
                  pounds sterling a peice to be leavyed &c. upon the same Condition.

          Tho: Wright Then also did Thomas Wright acknowledge a Recognizance in Tenne
            to frsecute pound sterling the psecution of ye said John Griffin the same next
                  Cort to be leavyed &c.

              p. 519     Maryland ss. Memorandum that this day that is to say the first
                  day of October in the 41th yeare of the Dominion of Caecilius &c