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March Court
1723
142 Money Each to be Levied on the Bodys goods or Chattells Lands or tenements for the use of his said Lordship the Lord proprietary Joyntly and Severally In case the Said Richard Driskill do not make his personally appearance Before the Justices of our County Court to be held at Dividing Creek the third tuesday of June next to answer unto his said Lordship the Lord proprietary touching or Concerning all such matters & things as shall be then & there objected against him on his said Lordship Behalfe and to stand & abide the Judgmt of the Court thereupon and not to depart the same Court without Lycence thereof and in the Mean time to be of Good beheaviour to all his Lordships Leige people & More Especially to Hannah Fords &c
the Devill the twentieth day of February ann Dom Seventeen hundred and twenty one at the parish and County afd within the Jurisdiction of this Court did Committ fornication with a Certain Esther Flewelling the twentyeth day of November ann Dom Seventeen hundred and twenty one at the parish and County afd was delivered of a bastard Child against the peace &c and against the form of an act of assembly of this province in such Case made and provided &c On the Back of the foregoeing Bill it was thus Endorst vizt Billa Vera James Mackimore Foreman Thereupon Command was Given to the Sherr of Somersett County that he should take Thomas Renshaw late of Stepney Parish and County afd Planter if he should be found in his Bailywick & him should Safe Keep so that he might have his Body before the Justices of his Lordships County Court of Somersett to be held at dividing Creek in the third tuesday of March then next to answer unto his Lordship Concerning a Certain Presentmt against him found &c and that thereof he should not fail &c Att which said third tuesday of march to witt the seventeenth day of the same month ann Dom one thousand seven hundred & twenty three being the day of the return of the said Writt Cometh the said Sherr of Somersett County and maketh return thereof to the Court here Endorst in these words following vizt Cepi Corpus Jos: MccChester Sherr Whereupon the said Thomas Renchor appears and being sett to the Barr is thereupon Instantly demanded how he would acquitt himselfe of the premisses afd above Imposed upon him says that of the premisses afd he is guilty thereof and submits to the Mercy of the Court and pays thirty shillings for his fine for the fact afd Wherefore it is COnsidered by the Justices here that the said Thomas Renshaw be fined to his Lordship the Lord proprietary thirty shillings for the fact afd Thereupon the said Thomas Renshaw is accordingly discharged paying the severall officers their fees due by action of the premisses afd &c |
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