artin to y{e} next
Court, to show cause why hee should not pay y{e} charges w{ch}
accrued upon y{e} Information given by him against Cornelius
Watkinson, Philip Howard, & William Darby.

"At a Court held in Accomack County, y{e} 17{th} of January,
by his ma{ties} Justices of y{e} Peace for y{e} s{d} County,
in the Seaventeenth year of y{e} Reigne of o{r} Sovraigne Lord
Charles y{e} Second, By y{e} Grace of God, of Great Britain,
France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c.: And in
the year of o{r} Lord God 1665.

"Whereas, Edward Martin was this day examined concerning his
information given to Mr. Fawset, his ma{ties} Attory for
Accomack County, about a play called the bare & y{e} Cubb,
whereby severall persons were brought to Court & charges
thereon arise, but the Court finding the said p'sons not
guilty of fault, suspended y{e} payment of Court charges; &
forasmuch as it appeareth upon y{e} Oath of y{e} said Mr.
Fawsett, that upon y{e} s{d} Edward Martin's information, the
Charge & trouble of that suit did accrew, It's therefore
ordered that y{e} said Edward Martin pay all y{e} Charges in
y{e} suit Els. Exon."[262:A]

FOOTNOTES:

[259:A] Hening, ii. 183.

[259:B] This document, entitled "The Account of Proceedings in his
Majt's Affairs at Anamessecks and Manokin, on the Eastern Shore of
Virginia," is preserved in the records of Accomac County Court, and a
copy, furnished by Thomas R. Joynes, Esq., the clerk, (himself a
descendant of Colonel Edmund Scarburgh,) was published in 1833, by order
of the legislature of Maryland. I am indebted to William T. Joynes,
Esq., of Petersburg, for the use of this report, and for some other
interesting particulars relating to the Eastern Shore.

[262:A] "The foregoing are true transcripts from the Records of the
Court of the County of Accomack, in the State of Virginia."--Test: _J.
W. Gillett, C. A. C._

CHAPTER XXIX.

1666-1675.

Plot discovered--Miscellaneous Matters--England at war with
the Dutch--The Plague in London--Tobacco--Forts--Cessation of
planting Tobacco for one year--Drummond's Petition rejected--
Baptism of Slaves--Tributary Indians--Batt's Expedition--The
Algonquin Tribes--The Powhatan Confederacy--Convicts sent to
Virginia--Legislative Acts.

THE Northern colonies appear at this time to have been styled the