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Provincial Court Land Records, 1709-1719
Volume 720, Page 476   View pdf image
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       ought to be tryed by a jury of the vicenage of the Place
       where his offence was committed your humble supplicant
       conceiveing the said commission to be so extensive as that
       it reacheth all the adjacent Governments (and Maryland
       inclusive) doth humbly offer that his tryall was not
       according to the Laws and Customes of England no part of
       the jury that went upon him being of the vicenage Viz.t
       not of the county of Calvert in Maryland where the fact was
       committed and your supplicant conceiveing that a jury or
       part of the jury might have been summoned in Calvert
       County or any part of Maryland by the force of the said
       commission  And he also in all humility offers that by
       the 24.th act of assembly in 1662 concerning the tryalls
       of Criminall Causes six of the county where the fact comitted
       ought to be sumoned upon the venire so that he supposeth
       the s.d Com.n of Oyer and Terminer hath not been well and
       suff.tly perused in the late tryall and proceedings ag.t him
       and your supplicant doth further humbly offer that in y.e
       indictment afd there is no specification of the River Creek
       Town Parish or hundred (nay not of the county nor pvince)
       where the said fact was committed whereas the Laws and
       Customes of England do require (in all indictm.ts a particular
       relation of the very place w.th the parish hundred and
       county where it lyeth to the end that the prisoner at the
       barr may not suffer any prejudice though want of
       certainty whereunto he might plead

                         And your honnours supplicant doth further
       Submissively Offer that the first List or pannell of jurors
       for his tryall did not amount to the Number of twenty four
       persons whereas he humbly conceives that (by the English
       Laws and Customes) that Number was requisite to make a
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