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June Court 1725
19 Whereupon all and singular the Premises by the Court here seen heard and fully understood & mature deliberation thereupon had as well on the part of the Said Petitioner as on the Part of the said Thomas Baker and the said Thomas Baker sent his Note from under his hand directed the Justices that he had nothing to say why the same Anslowe should be detained in his service &c Wherefore it is Considered by the Justices here the same day & year that the Said James Andslow from the service of his said Master Thomas Baker goe thereof acquitt &c
Thereupon Command was given to the Sherr of Somersett County that he should take the said Mary Chorne if she should be found in his Baily wick and her safe Keep so that he might have her body before the Justices of his Lordships County Court of Somersett to be held at dividing Creek the third tuesday of June then next and that thereof had to answer unto his Lordship Concerning a Certain Presentm.t against her found &c and that thereof he should not fail &c Att which said third tuesday of June to witt the fifteenth day of the same month ann Dom One thousand seven hundred and twenty five being the day of the return of the said Writt Cometh the Sherr of Somersett County to whom the foregoeing writt was directed and maketh return thereof to the Court here Endorsed in these words viz.t Cepi Corpus P Joseph MccClester Sherr Whereupon the said Mary Chorne being by the Sherr sett to the Barr is Instantly demanded how she would acquitt herselfe of the premisses afd Imposed upon her saith that of the Premisses afd so as afd upon her Imposed she is Guilty thereof and put herselfe in Mercy of the said Lord proprietary but hath not wherewithall to pay her fine for the fact afd Wherefore it is Considered by the Justices that the said Mary Chorne be whipt with fifteen Lashes at the publick whiping Post with on the bare back well Laid on untill the blood appear and as to the Corporall Punishm.t afd Command is given to the Sherr of Somersett County that he do thereof Immidiate Execution by whiping the afd Mary Chorne at the Publick whiping Post on the bear Back ^well Laid on^ untill the Blood appear and afterwards the ^said^ Sherr Return's in the same Court that he hath done the Execution of the Judgmt afd as tot he Corporall Punishmt afd he was Commanded &c thereupon the said Mary Chorne is Ordered to give security for fees that accrued unto the several offices by occasion of the premisses Whereupon a Certain William Stempleton undertakes for the said Mary Chorne to pay the Severall Officers theirs fees due by means of the premisses afd &c |
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