Provincial Court Proceedings, 1683.     385

     Thomas Carvile and of his pper marke of the Vallue of Two hun-           Liber W. C.
     dred pounds of tobacco did kill steale and Carry away And the 18th
     of December Anno 1679 Three Piggs of the proper goods and
     Chattles of the said Thomas Carvile and of his proper marke of the
     Vallue of One hundred pounds of tobacco did Kill steale and beare
     away, And also the thirtyeth Day of November Anno 1679 One
     hogg of the proper goods and Chattles of John Tyrling and of his
     proper marke of the vallue of One hundred pounds of tobacco did
     kill Steale and beare away, And the 15th day of December Anno
     Dnj 1679 one other hogg of the proper goods and Chattles of the
     said John Tyrling did kill steale and carry away Of all wch said
     crimes the said Chesheire hath ever been ignorant & cleare, But
     by the malitious practices of the aforesaid Thomas Carvile and his
     Suborning witnesses against the said Chesheire, the said Chesheire
     (at a Provinciall Court held for this Province at the Citty of
     st Maries the foure and Twentyeth day of November Anno Dni
     1680, before the said Honoble Phillip Calvert and his Lopps Honoble
     Councill) hath not onely shamefully beene presented convicted and
     condemned, but hath also wrongfully undergone the Judgment of
     the said Provinciall Court of paying treble damages standing foure
     hours in the pillorie & haveing his Eares cropt and stigmatized with
     the Letter H in the forehead for the same Through the false mali
     tious, and execrable practices of the said said Thomas Carvile by
     whose meanes he the said Chesheire is not onely in his name and
     good fame utterly Destroyed and brought to nought, but also
     through the aforesaid Judgments Corporall punishments and Vexa
     tions he the said Chesheire stands much Impoverished wearyed and
     oppressed To the damage of the said Chesheire Three hundred
     pounds Sterling, and thereupon he bringeth his suite
       And the said Thomas Carvile by Anthony Underwood his Attor
     ney cometh and defendeth force and Injury when &c and prayeth
     liberty to imparle hereunto untill the next Court & it is granted unto
     him And the same day is given to the plt likewise
       Att wch said next Provinciall Court (to wit) the One and thirty
     eth day of March in the eighth yeare of the Dominion of the right
     honoble Charles Lord Baltemore &c Annoq Doni 1681 came the
     said partyes by their Attorneys aforesaid And the said Thomas
     Carvile by his said Attorney sayth That the said William his accon
     aforesaid against him Ought not to have because he sayth that the
     said Thomas Carvile is in noe wise guilty of subborning any witnesse
     or witnesses to give in any Evidence against the said William             p. 712
     Chesheire to the grand Jury at the provinciall Court mentioned in
     the Declaracon aforesaid as the said William Chesheire hath most
     scandalously falsely malitiously and Iillegally above in his Declara
     con sett forth And further Sayth that the said William Chesheire
     was and is guilty of the Crimes in the Declaracon above mentioned