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Kent County Court Proceedings, 1676-1698
Volume 557, Page 759   View pdf image (33K)
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of this Province Provided ^y.t^ You proceed not in any the cases
aforesaid to take life or Member but that in Every such case You
send the Prisoners with their Indictments and the whole matter depending
before You to the next Provintial Court to be holden for
this our Province whensoever or wheresoever to be holden there to
be Tryed And farther Wee doe hereby Authorise and Impower You
to Issue out Writts Processe and Attachments and to hold plea of
oyer and Terminer in all Accons real personal and Mixt and
after Judgm.t Execucon to Award in all causes Civil according to
the Lawes orders and reasonable Customes made and provided in
this our Province of Maryland Except matters relating to Titles of
Land In which causes Civil soe to be Tryed (Excepting as before Excepted)
Wee doe constitute and appoint You the several and respective psons
as afd to be Judges as afd And therfore Wee doe Command You y.t
You diligently Intend the Keeping of the Lawes and Orders of
all and singuler other the p.rmises and att certain dayes appointed
according to Act of Assembly in such case made and provided And
att such place as You or any Four or more of You as afd shall in
that behalfe Appoint You make Inquiry upon the p.rmises and
performe and fulfill the same in forme aforesd doeing therin
what to Justice appertaineth according to the Lawes Orders and
reasonable Customes of this our Province And therfore Wee
Command the sheerif of our County by virtue of these p.rsents
that att the place and on the dayes afd that You or any such Four
or more of You as afd shall make Knowne to him that he give
his Attendance on You And if need require he cause to come before
You or any such four or more of You such and soe many good &
Lawfull men of Your County by whom the truth of the p.rmises
may the better be Knowne and Inquired And lastly You shall cause
to be brought before You on the day and att the place afd the Writts
precepts processe and Indictm.ts to your Court and Jurisdicon belonging
that the same may be Inspected and by due Course determined
Wittnesse our Trusty and Well beloved Francis Nicholson Esq
on Cap.t Gen.ll and Govenor in Cheif in and over our Province
and Territory of Maryland this sixteenth day of June in the
Ninth Yeare of our Reigne Annoq Dom 1697
                        signed                Fr Nicholson
                                sealed w.th broad seale


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