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     innkeeper, storekeeper, and planter, and in the criminal records as charged with
     blasphemy, abortion, attempted rape, and with being a receiver of stolen goods.
     At the November, 1665, session he was presented to the court by Thomas
     Alcocks, planter and carpenter, charged with having received the goods stolen
     from Alcocks' house when the latter's wife and children were murdered by
     Indians and his household goods carried away by them. Lumbrozo was turned
     over by the Charles County Court to the sheriff for trial at the next Provincial
     Court. The case did not come up before the Provincial Court, however, and the
     explanation of why it did not, is disclosed by an entry in this volume. At the
     August, 1667, Charles County Court, a suit was filed by Thomas Alcocks against
     John Robinson, administrator of the estate of John Lumbrozo, who was then
     dead. The evidence shows that on November 16, 1665, the same day that his
     case had been ordered sent up to the Provincial Court, Lumbrozo and Alcocks
     referred their disputes to arbitration, and that they “chose us William Calvert
     and Zachary Wade gent. to determine all business between them.” Each liti-
     gant bonded himself for 10,000 pounds of tobacco “to stand to our award”,
     concerning the differences between them, viz.: “for the sd Lumbrozo's having
     in his custody severall of the sd Alcocks goods taken out of his house” when his
     wife and child were murdered. Calvert and Wade awarded Alcocks 900 pounds
     of tobacco, and the court ordered Lumbrozo's administrator to make payment
     of this amount (pp. 92-93). At the same court two other suits for small debts
     against Lumbrozo's estate were heard and decided (pp. 93-94). The record also
     shows that Lumbrozo had a son born after the father's death and after his
     widow's remarriage: “John Lumbrozo Sonne of John Lumbrozo decd was
     Born in the monthe of June Anno Dni 1666” (p. 130). It may be recalled that
     at the July, 1663, court, Lumbrozo and his maid servant Elizabeth Wilde had
     been presented for having brought on an abortion upon her, she charging him
     with responsibility for her pregnancy, and that he saved himself by marrying
     her, thus disqualifying her from appearing as a witness against him (Arch.
     Md. LIII, 1-li). Lumbrozo died late in 1665, or early in 1666. His widow
     Elizabeth lost no time in marrying a second husband, John Browne, a well-to-
     do Charles County planter, as she, under the name Elizabeth Browne, took out
     letters of administration upon Lumbrozo's estate May 25, 1666, the month
     before her son by Lumbrozo was born. A suit for debt heard at the November
     27, 1666, court, shows that she was then again a widow (p. 48). Letters of
     administration upon John Browne's estate were granted to his brother Gerard
     Browne, January 19, 1666/7.

                      COUNTY TAX LEVIES

       The annual county tax levies were fixed by the court, usually at a special
     session held towards the close of the year. The total county expenses for the
     year were then determined, and this figure divided by the number of taxables
     fixed the amount of the tax in pounds of tobacco imposed upon each taxable.
     These lists of county expenses show, among other items, the expenses of
     transmitting the county burgesses to and from St. Mary's City, the salary of
     the sheriff for collecting the levies, grand jury expenses, payments to the