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Remitted to the House by Captain Addison & Captain
Courts with Order to Acquaint the House that there remain
yet some Laws before this Board Concerning which this
Board desire to Confer with them at Ten a Clock to morrow
morning and that it seems to this Board unlikely that the
Business of this Assembly should be finished to morrow the
day appointed for Sessions and therefore they have further
time to Compleat the same
Precept issued to the Sheriff of Somerset County as Above
Ordered vizt
By his Excellency the Governor and Council June the 6th 1692.
Ordered that the Sheriff of Somerset County have the
Body of Andrew Crookshank late Master of the Ship Kath-
erine of London Derry (whom he had in Custody Com-
mitted for Murder before their Majesty s justices of Oyer and
terminer especially appointed at their Court to be holden at
the City of Saint Marys on the 20th day of this instant June to
answer what shall be laid to his charge and also that he sum-
mons the mate Mariners and Seamen and others the Evidences
therein (as he shall be informed) that all Excuses set apart
they and every of them be and appear at the time and Place
aforesaid to testify on behalf of their Majestys The truth of
their Knowledge against the said Crookshank whereof let
their be no fail on pain and Penalty that shall fall thereon
To the Sheriff of Somerset Sign'd p Order
County or his Deputy J LLewellin Clk.
These
To his Excellency the Governor & his honble Council
The Petition of Edward Cook of Dorset County
Humbly Sheweth
That one Daniel Clarke of the same County living publickly
in Adultery with your Petitioners wife in Contempt and
despite both of the Law of God and Man and to the great
Grief and Affliction of your Petitioner doth by Violence & Oppo-
sition to all Authority keep and detain your Petitioners said
wife refusing to deliver her to your Petitioner but Continues
to live incontinently with her notwithstanding any Warrant or
Order of Court to the Contrary to your Petitioners Great
Damage grief and trouble as aforesaid
Your Petitioner humbly prays your Excellencys special war-
rant for the Apprehending securing and taking into Custody
both the said Daniel Clark and your Petitioners said wife so
as to have them before your Excellency or such other of your
Council or their Majestys Provincial or County Court to
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