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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1740-1742
Volume 861, Page 105   View pdf image
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       June Court                                          1741                    105

of this Court did Commit fornication with a Certain person unknown and did permit the said unknown person of her body then & there
Carnall knowledge to have and a bastard Child on the body of her the same Eliz.a then and there to beget to the high displeasure
of Almighty God to the Evill Example of all others in such Case offending Contrary to the peace of the right Honourable the Lord
proprietary that now is his good rule and Government and against the form of the Act of Assembly in such Case lately made
and provided &c  Whereupon the same Attorney of the same pord proprietary for the same Lord proprietary prays the Advice
of the Court herein the premisses and that due process of law in this part against the same Elizabeth may be made to answer unto
the same Lord propry of & upon the premisses &c

                   Thereupon Command was given to the Sheriffe of Somerset County that he Should take
the said Elizabeth Beavins if &.a to answer &.a and now to witt the Sixteenth day of June Ann Dom
One thousand Seven hundred and forty One at a Court held at dividing Creek before his Lordships
Justices Came the said Elizabeth Beavins by William Arbuckle her attorney and saith that he
Cannot deny but that the same Eliz.a is Guilty of the premisses in the Information aforesaid specified
above upon her Imposed in manner and form as by the Information aforesaid above against her supposed
and the premisses in the Information aforesaid Expressly acknowledgeth

                   Whereupon all and singular the premisses being seen and fully understood

It is Considered by the Court here that the aforesaid Elizabeth Beavins pay unto his Lordship the
Right Honourable the Lord Proprietary for her fine by the Court hereupon her Imposed for and by occasion
of the premises aforesaid whereof in form aforesaid she is Convict thirty shillings Curr.t money of Maryland and that
the said Elizabeth Beavins be Taken to Satisfie his said Lordship of the fine aforesaid   Whereupon the said
Elizabeth Beavins is Ordered to give Security for the payment of all fee or fees due to any person or persons
on the Information afd  thereupon a Certain John Beavins of Somerset County planter present herein Court
undertook for the said Elizabeth Beavins for the payment of all fee or fees due to any person or persons on
the Information afd  In case the said Elizabeth Beavins doth not pay the same &c


The Same
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George Taylor
 Somerset County ss    Be it Remembred that Robert Jenckins Henry Gent Attorney of the
right Honourable the Lord proprietary that now is who for the same Lord proprietary in this part
prosecuteth doth Come here into ^the^ County Court of ^the^ Same Lord proprietary held for Somerset County af.d (to witt)
at Dividing Creek in the same County the Sixteenth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and forty
one before John Scott Esq.r and his Associates the said Lord proprietary his Justices of the same County Court and for the
same Lord proprietary doth give the Justices here to understand ^and^ be Informed that George Taylor late of Coventry parish
in the County af.d planter the first day ^of^ may in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and forty at the parish
af.d in the County af.d within the Jurisdiction of this Court did Commit fornication with a Certain Elisabeth Beavins and
then and there had Carnall knowledge of her body and then and there did begett a bastard Child on the body of her the same
Elizabeth 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 propry that now is his good rule and Goverment and against the form of the Act of Assembly in such Case
                                                                                                                                                                         lately


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