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June Court 1726
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the third Teusday of June being the twenty first Day of s.d Month Anno Dom. Seventeen hundred and twenty Six the Day of Return of s.d writt Endorst as foll.s viz.t Non Est Inventa p Fred.k Hanson Sher 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 oaths Do present that Mary Burymon late of S.t Pauls parish in the County afd Spinster the first Day of October Anno Dom. Seventeen hundred twenty and five at S.t pauls parish afd in Kent County afd within the Jurisdiction of this Court did Comit fornication with a Certain person to the Jurors afd unknown & 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 y.e Same Mary to the high Displeasure of Almighty God to y.e Evill Example of all others in Such Case offending Contrary to y.e peace of y.e s.d Lord prop.ry that now is his Good Rule and Government and against the form of the Act of Assembly in that Case made and provided T francis Cler. pac. Test Cap.t W.m Frisby On the Back of y.e preceeding Indictment was as foll.s viz.t a true bill p Sam.l Wickes foreman And the afd Mary Burymon in her proper person Comes and Saith that She Cannot Gainsay the Indictment afd So as afd against her brought nor Can She Say but that She is Guilty of the premisses above upon ^her^ Imposed as by the afd Indictment it is alledged and Thereupon Submits to y.e Court Therefore it is Considered by the Justices here to wit at the Court house in the Town of Chester in said County this twenty first Day of June Anno Dom. Seventeen hundred and twenty Six that the s.d Mary Burymon Receive at y.e publick whipping post fifteen Lashes well laid 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 She pay the Sume of two hundred & fifty this Court Jam.s Smith Clk Ordered by the Court here that the Custody |
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