90        Provincial Court Proceedings, 1677.

              Liber N N  an Elegit against the moyety of the Said Estate in the hands of the
                     executors at the time of the judgment Obtained & for your so doeing
                     this shall be your warrant.
                     Wittnes                         Clement Hely.
                     Jno Blomfeild:

                      Edward Turner Constable of St Clements Hundred Petitioned
                     the Governour & Council That Whereas the said Edward being an
                     illiterate person and constituted Constable of the said Hundred is
                     fined by the justices of St Maries County Court the summe of five
                     hundred pounds of tobacco for not Setting up in the Court house
                     of the said County a faire list of all the tithables within his Hundred
                     according to the Act of Assembly in that case made & provided, of
                     which Act the said Edward was wholy ignorant Therefore he hum
                     bly craves that the said fine may be remitted & that a Certificate
                     thereof may be given to the County Court.
                      Underneath which petition was written this. My Opinion is that
                     an Order of this Court be transmitted to the justices of the County
                     of St Maries to Comãnd them to surcease estreateing the fine men
                     tioned in the petition the Constable haveing taken his Oath that he
                     was ignorant of the Law as to the Setting up a list at the Court &
                     did deliver a list to the Sheriff in tyme, And the justices of the Court
                     or any Single justice of the peace that shall for the future sweare the
                     Constables doe at the time of administering the Oath acquaint the
                     Constable of his duty in this case & then the Constable be left with
                     out excuse.                     Thoma Notley.
                      Afterwards to wit the 5th day of October 1677 the abovesaid
                     petition & Opinion of the Governour being read in Open Court It is
                     the Opinion of the Court here that as to the latter part of the Gov-
                     ernours Opinion in the premisses be observed & Kept.

                     Vincent Lowe
                                      agt
                     Henry Mitchell
                                   John Young
                                      agt
                     Jno Larkin & Joseph Chew
                     John Jordaine
                      agt              these 5 causes continued till December
               Thomas Jones            Court
               John Watkins
                                      agt
                     Richard Hill admr
                      James Rawbone
                                   Pope Alvey
                                      agt
                     John Jordaine