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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1730-1733
Volume 842, Page 166b   View pdf image
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March Court                   1731                 166

Penelope into bublick Scandal Ignominy Infamy and In danger of being whipped at
the publick post and Set in and upon the publick pillory in the County aforesd to Cause
and bring at a County Court of the Right honrble the Lord Proprietary that now is held
for Dorchester County at Cambridge Town in the Same County the Second tuesday in
November anno Dom Seventeen hundred and thirty before Henry Ennalls Esq.r
and his Associates his Said Lordships Justices ^to^ Conserve the peace in Dorchester COunty
and also divers felonys trespasses and also Malefeazances in the Same County
perpetrated to hear and determine assigned falsely and Malisiously and Without any
Reasonable Cause her the Said Penelope by the Name of Penelope Murphy Late of
Dorchester parish in the County aforesd Spinster upon Evidence by the Said Thomas
against the afd Penelope falsely and Maliciously given did Cause and procure to be
Indicted for that the Same Penelope the first day of January Anno Dom Seventeen
hundred twenty Nine at the Parish afd in the County afd within the Jur of that Court
with force and arms one book Intituled the new years Gift Compleat of the Value of
forty pounds of Tobacco one holland Han^d^kerchief of the Value of twenty pounds of
Seane of Coloured thread of the Value of two pounds of Tobacco and twenty Nine
tiken buttons of the Value of Seven pounds of Tobacco and half a yard of fustin of the
Value of eight pounds of Tobacco of the goods and Chattells of a Certain Thomas Tompson
Clarke then and there being found then and there feloniously did Steal take and bare
away Contrary to the peace of the Said Lord propry that now is his good rule and
Goverment and against the forme of the act of assembly in Such Case Lately made
and provided and thereupon at the Same Court before the Justices afd Came the afd
Penelope under the Custody of Jacob Loockerman Gent Sherife of the County afd
into whose Custody of ^for^ the Cause afd before that time there as Comitted to ^the^ barr there
Led and imediately being asked how she of the felony afd in the Indictment
Specified above upon her Imposed would be accquitted the Same Penelope then
and there pleaded that she was not thereof Giulty and thereof of good and Evill
did put herself upon the Country and thereupon the Jurors thereof by the same
Sherif in this part in due manner and forme as the aforesd Penelope for
herselfe above by pleading had alledged  Whereupon all and Singular the Premisses
by the Court then and there being Seen and Understood by the ^same^ Court it was Considred
that the afd Penelope be quit and goe thereof without day by pretext of which Promisses
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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1730-1733
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