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June Court 1714 23 on which A Presentment was prefered [?] to the Grand Jury impanneled for the Body of . Said County and on there Oath did find and make Presentmt. of the Said Samuel Exell for Teaching and Preaching in an unlawfull assembly &c.a which presentment was by Thomas Bowne Clark of the Indictmts. framed into a Bill of Indictment as folls viz.t Kent County in Maryland Ss The Juriors for our Sovereigne Lady . y.e Queen that now is and the body of Kent County afd upon their Oath present that Samuell Exell of ye Parish of S.t Paul in Kent County afd Labourer a Subject of this Realm above ye age of Sixteen years the Twenty fifth day of December . in the Year of our Lord Christ Seventeen hundred & Thirteen had Departed from his place of habitacõn and afterwards that is to Say on the afd Twenty fifth day of December in the year afd about the hour of one of Clock after [noone.?] in the Same Day with force & Armes &ca. at the Dwelling house of A Certain Mary Bowles then & there Situated & being in ye afd Parish of S.t Pauls in Kent County afd within ye Jurisdiccõn of this Court did take upon him and did Preach & touch in an Assembly Conventule [?] & meeting of divers Severall persons Subjects of this Realm to the Jury unknown above ye Number of five over & besides those of the Said Marys houshold And each & every of themselves above the Age of Sixteen Years who before had & each and every of them had departed from there Severall & respective Assembled themselves together at one Instant of June in the Same Day in one Room in the afd Dwelling house of the afd Mary Bowles under Colour & Pretence of the Exercise of Religion contrary to the Liturgy & Practice of ye. Church of England And of this Province in Contempt of our Said Lady the Queen and to the great perturbation of the peace of the Said Lady the Queen in evill~ Example of all others in like Cause of Delinquency & against the form of Divers & Severall Statutes & an Act of Assembly of this Province in Such Case. made & Provided TBowne pr Domi Reg.a on the Back of the preceeding Indictm.t was Endorsed as folls vizt Billa vera pr Philp Holeager foreman Evidences John Moll Wm Glanvill Francis Cooke Francis Barney Francis Barney Junr. John Jones Vivian Beck Michael Hackett and the Said Samuel being Called |
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