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March Court 1725 Court here on the third Teusday of March being the fifteenth Day of s.d Month Anno Dom. Seventeen hundred and twenty five the Day of Return of s.d writt Endorst as foll.s viz.t Cepi Corpus p Fred.k Hanson Sherf Kent County fs.t The Jurors for the Right Hon.ble the Lord prop.ry that now is for the body of Kent County afd upon their oath do present that Kath.a Shaw of Shrewsbury parish in the County afd Spinster the tenth Day of Aprill Anno Dom. Seventeen hundred and twenty five at the parish afd in the County afd within the Jurisdiction of this Court Did Commit fornication with a Certain person to y.e Jurors afd unknown and Did permit the Same unknown person then and there to have Carnal knowledge of her body and to begett then and there a bastard Child on the body of her the Same Kath.a Shaw to y.e high Displeasure of Almighty God to the Evill Example of all others in Such Case offending Contrary to the peace of the s.d Lord prop.ry that now is his Good Rule and Government and against the form of the Act of Assembly in Such Case made and provided &c T Francis Cler. pac. On the Back of y.e afd Indictment was as foll.s viz.t A true Bill by W.m Crow foreman And the afd Katherin Shaw in her proper person Comes and Saith that She Cannot Gainsay the Indictment afd so as afd against her brought nor but that She is Guilty of the premisses above upon her Imposed as by the afd Indictment it is alledged and thereupon Submitts to the Court Therefore it is Considered by the Justices afd here to wit at the Court house in the Town of Chester in s.d County this fifteenth Day of March Anno Dom. Seventeen hundred & twenty five that the afd Katherin Shaw pay the Sume of Six hundred pounds of Tobacco a fine for her afd offence of Comitting fornication in form afd Confest to the use of this County of Kent according to Act of Assembly in Such Case made and provided as also the Sume of three hundred and thirty three pounds of Tobacco Costs accrueing on the premisses afd to the officers of this Court Jam.s Smith Clk |
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