264Kent County Court Proceedings, 1668-1671.




          Liber C Thomas Thurston, by henry howard his Atturney prferes a peticon
          Ord : to the Cort for a debt by bill of Two thousand sixty & eight pounds

               of Tobacco and Caske due unto the sd Thurston out of the estate of
               Edmond Burton deceased: Edward Burton the Administrator ac
               knowledgeing the sd debt to be Just & due: the Cort doth order that
               prsent pay be made out of the sd Estate; else execucon

                Mary Willkins prsented to this Cort by Henry Downes Cunstable
               for haueing of a Bastard Childe:
                The sd Mary Willkins, being there examined, And not able to make
               appeare who is the father thereof (Alithough she hath formerly
               slandered Capt John Vicaris to be the Father thereof) Therefore the
               Cort doth order that shee maintaine the Childe, And for the slandering
               of the sd Capt Vicaris The Cort doth order that shee shall haue thirty
               Lashes on the bare back well Layd on: And to pay Charge & Cost of
               Suite: &c

                John True: Sworne Cunstable, for the upre hundrd
        Robert Kent: Sworne Cunstable for the Lower hundrd County of
                                                    Kent

                A warrant to the Cunstable of the up: hunderd, to bring the abouesd
               Mary Willkins befor Mr Robert Dunn to receiue her punishmt ac
               cording to the abouesd ordr: And allso to bring her to the next Cort
               to answer her Contempt in departeing from the sd Cort wthout the
               know!edg or Lycens thereof

         [fol. 19] The widdow Barbra Hill prferin a peticon in Cort for a barrell of
               Indyan Corne wch Thomas Heath owed to her husband at the tyme
               of his Death, the wch corne the sd Heath had ordred John Maggison
               to pay the wch Corne as yet is not payd: but the sd John Maggison
               doth acknowledg to pay the sd barrell of Corne, unto the sd Barbra
               Hill att the Crope

               James Cullums, by Edward Burton In an accon of Debt The Attur
                   his Attorney ptnt  ney of the sd Cullums, by &
               Rober Humphereys Defft   wth the Consent of the defend
               Craueth a referance till the next Cort wch the Cort granteth:

               James Cullums plntf In an accon of Defamacon: The Shereff Re
               Richard mor Def tornes non est inuentus on the writt

                Know all men by these prsents that I Thomas Thurston of Balte
               more County in the Prouince of Maryland shoomaker doe appoynt &
               ordaine Henry Howard of Ann arundell County To bee my true &
               Law full Atturney to act in my behalf e for the recouery of a sertain