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March Court 1725
149 Assembly in such Case made and provided &c T Francis Cler. pac. test Will.m Sullavane On the Back of the preceeding Indictment was as foll.s viz.t A true Bill p.r Sam.l Wilkes foreman And the afd Christian Kease 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 it is alledged and thereupon Submitts to the Court Therefore it is Considered by the Justices here to wit at the Court house in the Town of Chester in s.d County this twenty Seventh Day of Aprill Anno Dom. Seventeen hundred and twenty five that the afd Christian Keese Receive at the publick whipping post five Lashes well land on her bare back till the blood appear as a punishment for her afd Crime of Committing fornication in form afd Confest as also that he pay the sum of two hundred and twenty three pounds of Tobacco Costs Accrueing on the premisses afd to the officers of this Court Jam.s Smith Clk Ordered by the Court here at this Day to wit the Day and year afd that the Sher of Kent County take the afd Christian Keese into his Custody and Execute the Lashes in the Judgment afd and afterwards to bring her into Court again of which precept the s.d Sherf to wit Fred.k Hanson Gent high Sherf of Kent County makes Return on the Day & year last said that he hath Executed the s.d Judgment and also hath here the s.d Christian Keese before the Court Ordered by the Court here that the s.d Christian Keese prove the begetter of her Child who Declares on the holy Evangilists of Almighty God that Isaac Clements of Cecill County was the Begetter of her last base born Child She was Delivered off Ordered that the afd Christian give Security for the fees in y.e Judgment afd Thereupon John Clove of Kent County Gentl Comes Into Court and assumes to pay all y.e Costs and Charges afd mentioned in y.e Judgm.t and thereupon the s.d Christian Keese is therefrom Acquitted |
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