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219 hereafter presume to Lye in wait to maim or kill any the kings Subjects and also of all ordinary keepers and other persons who have offended or hereafter Shall presume to Offend in the above of weights or measures against the acts of assembly for the Common good or profitt now in this province made and Used and also of the Sher bailifs Constables and other officers who have or shall hereafter Misbehave themselves in the Execution of their Offices or have been remiss or negligent in the Execution thereof or shall hereafter happen so to be within Our County afd and of all and Every the articles matters and things whatsoever howsoever or by whomsoever in Our County afd done or Committed or that shall hereafter happen to be done or Committed Concerning the premisses or any of them and to Inspect all Indictments before you or any of you taken or to be taken or before our Late Justices of the peace within Our Said County had and taken and not yett determined and process thereon against all or any person or persons so Indicted or which Shall hereafter happen to be indicted within our County afd to make and Continue untill they Shall be taken or Surrender themselves or to be outlawed and to hear and determine all and Every the felonies witchcrafts Enchantments Sorceries arts Magicks trespasses forestallings regratings riots Indictments and all other the matters aforesaid according to acts of assembly of Our said province so far forth as they provide and where they are Silent according to the Laws Statutes and reasonable Costoms of England agreeable to the Usage and Constitution of our Said province and the said delinquents and Every of them to Chastize and punish by fines ransoms amerciaments forfeitures and Otherwise according to the acts of assembly of our said province so far as they provide and where they are silent according to the laws Statutes and reasonable Customs of England agreeable to the Usage and Constitution of the same province but we will not that you proceed in any ^of^ the Cases afd to take life or member but that in every such Case you send the prisoners with their Indictments and the whole matter depending before you to Our Justices of assize Nisiprius and Goal delivery at the next Court of Oyer and Terminer to be held for this Our Said County be it whensoever or wheresoever to be holden there to be tryed And we Command you and Every of you diligently to Inquire the keeping of the peace acts of assembly Laws Statutes Customs and Statutes afd and all and Every the premisses and that at your County Courts you make Inquisition and hear and determine as afd doing therein what to Justice appertaines according to the acts of assembly so far forth as they provide and where they are Silent according to ye Laws Statutes and reasonable Customs of England agreeable to the Usage and Constitution of our said province And further we do Constitute Ordain and appoint you the Said Samuel Hopkins William Planner John Jones Wm Fasitt Jno Smith Balt.r hundred William Stoughton John Caldwell, Jn.o MccClester, John Handy, James Dashiells John Scott and Robert King or any three or more of you as afd to Issue out writts preceipts process and attachments and hold plea of all actions popular and of all actions personall of what sort soever wherein ye demand doth not Exceed the sum of One thousand hundred pounds of Sterling or thirty thousand pounds of tobacco and all actions personall now depending before you and after Judgm.t Execution to award in all Such Cases and actions afd according to the acts of assembly of our Said province so far forth as they provide and where they are Silent according to the Laws Statutes and Reasonable Customs of England agreeable to the Usage and Constitution of the same province which Said actions to be tryed we do Constitute ordaine and appoint you the Said Samuel Hopkins |
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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1727-1730
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