Provincial Court Proceedings, 1676.     209

        ciall Court to heare divers ffellonyes and trespasses in the said Prov- Liber N N
        ince perpetrated and to heare and determine assigned by the Oathes
        of Richard Tilghman fforeman Benja Summer Wm Dorrington
        Peter Archer John Bigger Robert Lashley ffrancis Wynn Arthur
        Turner ffrancis Kilborne John Watkins Edward Dorsey Wm
        Hemsley Wm Jones George Marshall John Barnes Robert Cager
        Thomas Osborne and Michael Gibson of the body of the said Prov-
        ince upon evidence by the said James against the aforesaid John
        Wedge then and there given the said James falsely and malitiously
        did procure to be indicted of that That the Said John Wedge late of
        Kent County Taylor (meaning the plaintiff) and Zachariah Mahugh
        of the same County planter the eight and twentith day of ffebruary
        in the three & fortith yeare of the Dominion of Caecilius &c Annoq
        Doth One thousand six hundred seventy foure betweene the houres
        of twelve and One of the Clocke in the night of the same day in
        the County aforesaid feloniously did Steale and carry away eight
        barrells of Indian Corne to the value of ten shilling p barrell of the
        proper goods and Chattells of James Ringold then in the Said
        Ringolds house being found felloniously did take and carry away
        against the Peace of the Lord Proprietary his rule and dignity
        Which indictment aforesaid the said Justices at the Citty of st Maries
        aforesaid caused to be recorded Upon which the said John Wedge
        then and there was brought to the Barr in his proper person under
        the Custody of Clement Hill then Sheriff of the County of st Maries
        By the justices aforesaid he was then and there asked how he would
        of the fellony aforesaid to him in forme aforesaid acquitt himself e
        and the said John Wedge then and there said that he in nothing was
        thereof guilty and there of good or evil then and there putt himselfe
        upon the Country and Vincent Lowe Esq who for the said Lord
        Proprietary in that part followed also Therefore Comãnd was given
        to the said Sheriff of st Maries County that he should make to come
        before the aforesaid Justices at the Citty of st Maries aforesaid
        twelve ffree and lawfull men of the Province aforesaid by which
        &c and who not &c to recognize &c because aswell &c the same day
        was also given to the said John Wedge Att which day being the three
        and twentith day of November before the justices aforesaid at the
        Citty of st Maries aforesaid came the aforesaid John in his proper
        person under the Custody of the aforesaid Sheriff of st Maries
        County and the said Sheriff returned the precept aforesaid Served
        and executed together with the pannell and names of the jury that
        is to say George Robbins Arthur Thompson Cuthbert ffenwick
        John Brookes Thomas Gant Wm King Henry Rider John Askin
        Richard Bayly Joseph Edloe Henry Tripp and Edward Roe And
        the jurors of his jury there impannelled came to speake the truth
        upon the premisses chosen tryed and Sworne then and there said
        upon their Oathes That the aforesaid John Wedge of the ifellony