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Kent County Criminal Court Records, 1728-1734
Volume 567, Page 506   View pdf image (33K)
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506                                    June Court 1734

County on the third tuesday in August next and in the mean time he is to be
of good Behaviour

    The Same John Jones is by this Court Ordered to be kept in
Same Custody untill the fees afd Shall be Satisfied to John Gresham
Gentl. Sherriff of Kent and thereupon is Com.td into his Custody
                                                                                    Jam.s Smith Clk

T. f.
 His Lordship
        ag.t
Mary Beazley
 Command was given on the twenty third day of
March in the twentieth Year of his Lordships
Dominion &c.a Anno Dom one Thousand seven
hundred and thirty three To the Sherrif of Kent
County and that he Should take Mary ^Beazley^ late of S.t Pauls
parish in the County afd Spinster if She should be found in his bailiwick
and her safe keep so that he have his body before the Justices of our
next County Court to be held at our Court House in the Town of Chester in
Said County on the third tuesday in June then next ensueing to Answer
unto a Certain Indictment for Commiting fornication and being beget
with a Child of a bastard Contrary &c.a and that the same Sherrif have at
the said Court the said writ &c.a

    Att which Said Court to wit at Kent County at the Court House in
the Town of Chester in Said County on the third Tuesday in June being
the Eighteenth day of Said Month Anno Dom. One Thousand Seven
hundred and thirty four being the day of Return of Said Writt Came
John Gresham Gentl. Sherrif of Kent County and made Return
to the Court here Thereof endorsed as foll. viz.t Cepi Corpus p Jn.o Gresham
                                                                                                            Sherf

    Kent County fs.t  The Jurors for the Right Honrable the Lord prop.ry that now is
for Kent County afd upon their Oath do present that Mary Beasley Beasely
late of S.t pauls parish in the County afd Spinster the tenth day of June Anno
Dom. Seventeen hundred thirty and three at the parish afd in the County
afd within the Jurisdicion of this Court did Committ fornication with a
person to the Jurors afd unknown and 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 the same Mary 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


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