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The aforesaid Petion and information being read & Considered the wor^ll Court doe Ord^r
that Mary Maxwell Serve the sd M^r Edw^d Jones five months for the four hundred
pounds of tobacco aforesd & One hundred & thirty dayes for the thirteen dayes
Runnaway time _______   - - - - - - -   _________   - - - - - - - -   __________
 
  John: Pope being this day calld in Court; and for Non app^a. the wor^ll Court
 Orders that m^r Robert: Pirrie SubSheriffe be bound p^r Recognizance of 10^, Sterling
for the Said Popes appearance at o^r next County Court to be held the Second tuesday
in January next in ann^o. 1692. to answer to Such things & matters as should be then
and there Objected agt Said Pope on behalf of their Maties, w^ch Recognizance was then
taken & acknowledged by the Said Pirrie in Open Court ___________   - - - - - - -
 
   Their Maties                                   Edmund Beauchamp was attached to answer
 Contra                               }   what Should be Objected agt him in their Maties
  Edmund: Beauchamp           Behalf. Their Maties Attorney Comes & Sayes y^t
~  ~  ~  ~  ~  ~  ~  ~  ~  ~          the Said Edmund hath Contrary to the Laws of this
Province Comitted fornication & On the body of
Hannah:Holland begott a Basterd Child & now Craves judgm^t agt y^e Offend^r.
James:Sangster Clr Ind^ts
     The Indictm^t. being read to which the sd Edm^d. pleaded not guilty ___ And the
     Said Hannah.Made Oath upon the holy Evangelists that he the sd Edmund=
Beauchamp is the ffather of her Basterd Child for which she stood indicted. _____
Therefore it was Ordered by the wor^ll Court that sd Edmund give Security for his good
behavio^r & to keep the County harmless & indemnified from all Charges that may or might
accrue by reason of the foresd Basterd Child. ___________   - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
 
Whereupon Came Edmund Beauchamp and by way of Recognizance did Confess
himself to owe & be indebted unto their Maties in the Sum of fourty pounds Sterling
money of England & his two Securities likewise Came. viz m^r Jn^o.Heath & Thomas
Beauchamp who did in like manner aforesd acknowledge themselves indebted to sd Maties
the Sum of twenty pounds Sterling money of England, all which sd three Sums