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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1730-1733
Volume 842, Page 79   View pdf image
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June Court           1731                                        79

Somerset County ss
                                                       Att a Court of the Right honrble Charles absolute Lord and proprietary of the provinces
                of Maryland and avalon Lord Baron of Baltemore &.c held at dividing Creek in Somerset County
                by his Said Lordships Commissioners and Justices of the peace the fifteenth day of June in the Seventeenth
                Year of his Said Lordships dominion &.c Anno Dom 1731

                                                                                    Present

The Worshipfull
 Mr William Planner
Mr John Smith
Mr John Caldwell
Mr John Handy
 Mr William Stoughton
Mr James Dashiell
Mr John Scott
 His Lordships
Justices
             John Purnall sher                                                                        Thomas Hayward Cl

                                                    Proclamation being made in common form His Lordships Commission
                of the peace for the County of Somerset being here produced was Read in these words following vizt

Maryland ss.t   Charles absolute Lord and proprietary of the provinces of Maryland and Avalon Lord
                Baron of Baltemore &.c  To Samuel Hopkins, William Planner, John Jones, William Fasitt John Smith
                Balt.n hundred William Stoughton John Caldwell, John MccClester, John Handy James Dashiell, John
                Scott Robert King James Martin and William Lane of Somerset County Gentlemen  Greeting Know
Ye that we have assigned you and every of You Joyntly and Severally Our Justices to keep our peace
within Our County of Somerset and to keep and cause to be kept all and Singular the Reasonable
good Laws and Statutes of that part of the kingdom of Great brittain called England and all
Laws and Ordinances of this Our province made for the Conservation of the peace and quiet rule and
Goverment of the kings Subjects within our said County and to Chastize & punish
all persons offending against the same Laws Statutes and ordinances or any
of them shall be fitt to be done and to call before you or any of you all those
who in Our County afd shall threaten to Do any Bodily harm to any of the
Kings Subjects or to burn their houses or otherwise break our peace and
Misbehave themselves to find Sufficient Security of the peace and good
Behavior to us and the said Subjents and if they Shall refuse to find such
Security that then you cause them to be Comitted in safe Custody untill they
shall be Delivered by Due course of Law from thence; also from ^we^ have assignes
you or Every three or more of you of whome we will you the said Samuel
Hopkins, William Planner, John Jones, William Fauit and John Smith
of Baltemore hundred or one of you always to be one Our Justices to Inquire
by the oath of good and Lawfull men of Our County afd by whome the hath
of the premisses may be the Better known of all and all manner of Felonies
wit^c^hcrafts, Enchantments, Sorceries, arts, Magick, Trespasses, Engroseings
regratings forestallings and Extortions whatsoever and of all other misfeazances
and offences whatsoever of which Justices of our peace Lawfully may or
ought to Enquire by whomsoever or howsoever in our County afd Done or
Committed or which may hereafter happen to be done or Comitted and alsoe
of all those who in our County afd in Riotous manner have gone or rode or
or shall hereafter presume to go or ride with armed force against our peace
to the disturbance of the kings subjects and of all such who in our County
                                                                                              aforesaid


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