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November Court 1726 Conditionally that if the afd James Clark should not make his psonall appearance at any time dure the same Court Sitting to Answer unto an Information found against him for an Assault and battery and if that in the mean time he should not be of Good behaviour And the said Recognizance being Continued till the third Tuesday of November then next following Att which said third Tuesday of November being the fifteenth Day of s.d Month Anno Dom. seventeen hundred twenty & Six the afd James Clarke having appeared the said ^Jn.o Wilsons^ Recognizance is discharged
to whom the said writt was directed makes return thereof to this Court here on the fifteenth Day of November Anno Dom. seventeen hundred twenty and Six the Day of Return of said writt Endors't as foll viz.t Cepi Corpus p Jn.o Gresham Sherrf Kent County fs.t Memorandum that Tench Francis Gentl Attorney of the Right Honourable the Lord proprietary that now is for the County afd who for the same Lord prop.ry in this part prosecuteth doth Come here into Kent County Court before Lambert Wilmer Esq.r and his Associates his said Lordships Justices of the same County Court to wit at New Town in the twenty first Day of June Anno Dom. seventeen hundred twenty and Six and for the same Lord proprietary doth give the Court here to understand and be Informed that Katharine Banks of Shrewsbury parish in the County afd Spinster the first Day of October Anno Dom. seventeen hundred twenty and five at the parish afd in the County afd within the Jurisdiction of this Court did Committ fornication with a Certain Negro person and did permitt the same Negro perform then and there to have Carnall knowledge of her body and to begett then and there a Bastard Child on the body of her the same Katharine to the high Displeasure of Almighty God to the Evill Example of all others in such Case Offending Contrary to the peace of the said Lord proprietary that now is his good rule and Dignity And against the form of the Act of Assembly in such |
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