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The present volume, being the second of the Provincial Court series, continues the record without any manifest break down to 1658. The rule of the commissioners under Parliament, after the battle on the Severn and surrender of Stone, is marked by proceedings against the Catholics, several of whom make confession of their faith in open court, and are fined, ostensibly on the ground of complicity with Governor Stone in his endeavor to hold the Province for the Proprietary.

There is here the same remarkable absence of crimes of violence that we noticed in the former volume. There are but two cases of homicide one of which was by Indians, and in the other, the evidence hardly seems to warrant the conviction, though the culprit. Dandy, no doubt, richly deserved hanging, if not for the murder of his servant, at least for the murder of the Indian recorded in the previous volume; and it would have been an economy had he been hanged then.

On page 374, and elsewhere, there are references to allowances of tobacco "out of the Dutch customs." The act of 1649 provided that all tobacco shipped in Dutch bottoms to any other than British ports should pay to the Proprietary a duty of ten shillings per hogshead. Of this revenue one-half was to be applied to paying claims for services rendered in recovering the Province from Ingle's brigands.

On page 336 we find one Symon Groves of New England designating himself as a "tobacco-roller." This would seem to be one whose business it was to roll casks of tobacco from the plantations to the landings; which was done by fitting the cask with an axle and a pair of shafts. Old "rolling-roads" still exist in some parts of the State, bearing witness to the excellence of colonial coopers.

One of the oddest records is a formal agreement, or articles of courtship, entered into between Peter Sharpe, the stepfather of Elizabeth Gary, and John Harwood. It appears that the party of the second part was an old suitor of Elizabeth, but had not found favor in the eyes of her parents, upon which he left his tongue wag rather too freely, and an action of defamation was brought.

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Nazwa: Judicial and Testamentary Business of the Provincial Court (Classic Reprint)
Autor: Maryland Maryland Provincial Court Prov
Wydawnictwo: FB &c Ltd
Kod paskowy: 9781330191682
Języki: angielski
Ilość stron: 598
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