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         Liber B.   larly called by name and attending the Court, The prisoner

               being demanded whether he could take any personal excepcon

               against any of them, expressed that he could not but was well

               Satisfied therein. Whereupon the Jurors were Sworn and their

               charge given them to bring in a Just and true verdict upon

               every branch of the Attorneys Charge aforesaid according to

               evidence to the best of their Skill who after much time Spent

               therein brought in their Joynt verdict in the words following

               viz' Vera to the first Soe far as one Deposition with Sundry

               Circumstances thereunto agreeing Shall be thought valid in

               Law

                To the Second third and fourth Billa Vera After the

               bringing of which verdict the Court discharged the Jurors and

               the day being far Spent and by reason of other Occasions, the

               Governor adjourned the Court till the day following:

                                The Same Court Continued ult Junij

                                1652

                      The Governor and Secretar

                prsent

                       Coll Francis Yardley  Mr Job Chandler

                This day his Lordps Attorney Mr Hatton by appointmt of

               the Court brought in his Charge ag' Susan Warren Widow a

               prisoner as followeth vizt

                In the name of the Keepers of the Liberties of England by

               authority of Parliament, and as Attorney to the Lord Proprie-

               tary I here declare against Susan Warren for that She hath

               Comitted Adultery or ffornication with one Capt William

               Mitchell, and thereby and by certaine prophane or blasphemous

               expressions much dishonoured God and given great Offence

           p. 331   and Scandal to the Government and prayed She might receive

               punishment according to Justice &c

                And the Said Susan Warren being called to her Answer

               and the Said Charge read unto her could not deny the Offence

               of ffornicacon the Same appearing by her own Confession

               upon Record, and her prophane expressions appearing by the

               Oaths of Mary Clocker and Richard Hodgkins upon Record,

               and She acknowledging her Offence humbly desired the Court

               would be favourable unto her But in regard of the Great

               Scandal to the Government by her lewd Course of life Soe

               publick and notorious It is thought fit and Soe Ordered, that

               She be forthwith whipped with thirty nine lashes upon her

               bare back, and Soe to be discharged of her Imprisonment in

               that particular which punishment She received accordingly

               with Some Mittigation upon the Intercession of Some of the

               Counsell and Others to the Govr on her behalf.

                Capt William Mitchell this day referred himself wholly to