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March Court
1733
113 and that the same Eliz.a be taken to satisfie his said Lordship of the fine afd whereupon the said Eliza Townsend ^is ordered to^ give security for the payment of the Severall Officers fees due by occasion of the premisses afd Thereupon a Certain Danl Townsend present here in Court undertook for the said Eliza Townsend for the payment of the Severall Officers fees due as afd &.a
fornication with a Certain person to the Jurors afd unknown and did permitt the same unknown person then and there to have Carnall knowledge of her body and to begett then and there a bastard Child on the body of her the same Comfort to the high displeasure of almighty God to the Evill Example of all Others in Such Case Offending Contrary to the peace of the said Lord proprietary that now is his good rule and Government and against the act of assembly in Such Case Lately made and provided &.a Test Joseph Hall On the backside of the foregoeing bill of Indictment it was Endorsed Viz.t Billa vera Jn Purnall Foreman Thereupon Command was given to the sheriff of Somerset County that he should take the said Comfort Inloss if &.a to answer &.a and now hereafterwards to witt the Ninteenth day of march anno Dom One thousand Seven hundred and thirty three before the Justices of his Lordships County Court of Somerset now held at dividing Creek in and for the County afd Came the afd Comfort Inloss in her proper person and being by the Sheriff sett to the barr is thereupon Instantly demanded how she would acquitt herselfe of the premisses afd above upon her Imposed says that of the premisses afd above upon her Imposed she is guilty thereof and hath nothing to pay her fine for the fact afd Whereupon all and Singular the premisses here being seen and fully understood It is Considered that the afd Comfort Inloss be whipt at the publick whiping post with ten Lashes on the bare back well Laid on untill the blood appear and that she be taken &.a and thereupon as to the Corporall punishment afd Command is given to the sheriff of Somerset County that he do thereof Immediate Execution afterwards in the Same Court Came the said sheriff and made return that he had done the Execution of the Judgmt afd by whiping of the afd Comfort Inloss at the publick whiping post with ten Lashes on the bare back well Laid on untill the blood appear as afd he was Commanded thereupon the said Comfort Inloss is ordered to give Security for the payment of the Severall Officers Fees due by means of the premisses afd but for want thereof the said Comfort Inloss is Committed into the Custody of the sher of Somerset County there to remain &.a the said Sherriffe to witt Josa Caldwell Gent present here in Court took Charge of ye said Comfort Inloss accordingly &.a
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