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77 Cæcilius &c To the Comissioners of Baltemore County Greeting Whereas Thomas Marsh late of Our County of Ann Arundell Gent hath been p.rsents in our said Court of Baltemore County before you for certaine trespasses and contempts contrary to the Forme of the Act of Assembly against getting of Bastard Children made and enacted within Our Said Province Our Well being for certaine causes that all and singular the presentm.ts for whatsoever trespasses and contempts against the Said Act the said Thomas Marsh before you in Our Said Court standeth p.rsented (as it is Said) should be determined before Us and not else where Wee doe therefore Comand you and every of you that all and Singular the said p.rsentm.ts with the tenor of the Reward concerning the Same So fully & intirely as before you the same day was taken by what name soever the Said Thomas be called in the same before Us in Our Chancery to be held the ninth day of February wheresoever it shall then by fully and intirely you send and that you make Knowne to George Utie and Hannah Bowen that they be & personally appeare before Us on the day and place aforesaid that we may further doe therein as according to law and equity to Us shall Seeme meet Wittnes Our Selfe &c the 28.th of December in the 48.th yeare &c Annoq Dom 1674 Att which said ninth day of February the Said Comissioners made no returne of the writ aforesaid therefore it was the 22.th day of February in the yeare aforesaid Comanded them and every of them that all & singular the said presentments with the tenor of the Record concerning the same so fully & intirely as before them the same was taken by what name soever the said Thomas be called in the same before his lopp in his Court of Chancery to be held the twentith day of April then next wheresoever it should then be fully & intirely they send and that they make Knowne to George Utie & Hannah Bowen that they be & personally appeare before his Lopp on the day & place aforesaid Which said Court to be holden the said twentith day of May then next following at which said fourth day of May the Sheriff of the said County of Baltemore maketh returne of the writt aforesaid endorsed By virtue of this I have summoned the within named George Utie and Hannah Bowen by order of the Comissioners of Baltemore County Court P Samuell Boston Sheriff This cause Continued untill next Court W.m Gaither Complt ag.t Thomas Mathews & al def.ts Upon the Petition of the Complainant that he hath severall materiall wittnesses to examine in this cause whereof One named William Green lyeing now very dangerously sicke and weake ready to dye which if he should dye before he were examined in this cause the petitioner should be much prejudiced He therefore humbly prayeth a Comission returnable without delay to some person or persons directed to goe to the said W.m Greene and take his examination to the same interrogatories already exhibitted in the Office Now here at this day to witt the 15.th day of February in the 43.th yeare of his Lopps Dominion &c the Court here doe order that Comission issue to Walter Hall according to the tenor of the said petition and Comission then issued accordingly Jn.o Balley Complt upon the Auditu Querela this day to witt this 9.th of February in ag.t the 43.th yeare &c the Sheriff of Dorchester County returned Raymond Stapelfort def.t endorsed By virtue of this writ I have taken Raymond Stapelfort whose body I have at the time & place appointed this cause continued untill next Court |
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