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Provincial Court Land Records, 1709-1719
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       and that the jurors were called over untill the Number of Twelve
       was by his free choice admitted to be his jury the court therefore
       resolvd the Pannell to have been Lawfull seeing there was more
       persons impannelled if the Prisoner had made more exceptions
      
4.thly      The Prisoner then moved that the fundamentall Laws and Customes
       of England do require that the indictment shall be found in the proper
       county where the fact is committed before any tryall can be had
       thereon and that no presentment had been made of this fact by any
       Coroners Inquest nor Grand Jury of the County nor Province whereof
       said offence was committed

                   To which it was answered by the court that the fact was comitted
       in Another Governm.t and a distinct propriety from this and that
       this tryall had been according to the Laws and Customs of this
       Colony for that the indictment had been found by the Grand Jury
       for the whole body of the Colony of Virginia

                      The Court then demanded of the Prisoner whether
       he had any more Points to argue in Law the prisoner replyed
       no more the Court thereupon Ordered the prisoner to be taken
       from the barr and committed to the sherr.s Safe Custody

                                  Aprill y.e 24.th 1686
                Present                     M.r Auditor Bacon
                   M.r Secretary Spencer
                   Co.l Phil Ludwell
                   Co.l W.m Cole
                   Co.l Jn.o Custis
 Co.l Jn.o Page
Co.l W.m Byrd
Co.l Jn.o Lear
Co.l Xpher Wormeley

       And now the said Col George Talbot was again brought to the barr
       and being demanded by the Court what he could say for himselfe
       why sentance of death should not passe ag.t him seeing he had
       been arraigned and convictted of felony by statute the Prisoner
       urged little in his own defence only by way or extenuation
       acknowledging that he had unfortunately been the Occasion of
       M.r Christopher Rousby's death but that the fact was comitted
       without any Manner of Premeditated Mallice in the height
                                                                                        (of)


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