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March Court 1731
279 pounds of Tobacco costs accrueing on the premisses afd to the officers of this Court It is also Considered by the Court here at this day to wit the day and year last mentioned That the Sherf of Kent County take the afd Elizabeth Carr into his Custody and Execute the Punishment in the Judgment afd Specified and afterwards to bring her into Court againe of which precept to wit Joseph Young Gent. high Sherrif of Kent County makes return on the day & year last Said that he hath Executed the punishment in the Judgment afd and also hath here the Said Elizabeth Carr before the Court Jam.s Smith Clk
Jurisdicion of this Court did Commit fornication with a person to the Jurors afd unknown and did permitt the same unknown person then and there to have Carnal knowledge of her body and to beget then and there a bastard child on the body of her the Same Katherine to the high displeasure of Almighty God to the Evil Example of all others in Such case offending contrary to the peace of the Said Lord prop.ry his good rule and government and against the form of the Act of Assembly in that case made and provided Testes Peter Massy On the back of the Same Indictment was endorsed as foll. viz.t A true bill Sam.l Wickes foreman And the afd Katharine Banks in her proper person came 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 Submits to the Court Therefore it is Considered by the Justices here to wit at a Court held for Kent County at the Court House in the Town of Chester in Said County on the third tuesday in March being the twenty first day of Said Month Anno Dom. Seventeen hundred and thirty one That the afd Katharine Banks Receive on her bare back twenty one Lashes well laid tell the blood appear as a Punishment for Committing the fornication afd in form afd Confest and also it is Considered that the afd Katharine Banks pay the Sum of two hundred and fifty four pounds of tobacco costs accrueing on the premisses afd to the officers of this Court It is also Considered by the Court here at this day to wit the day and Year last mentioned That the Sherf of Kent County take the afd Katharine Banks into his Custody and Execute the Punishment in the Judgment afd _________ and afterwards to bring her into Court againe of which precept to wit Joseph Young Gent high Sherf of Kent County makes return on the day and Year last Said that he hath Executed the Punishment in the Judgment afd and also _____ _____________ Katharine before the Court Jam.s Smith Clk |
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