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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1740-1742
Volume 861, Page 216   View pdf image
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             November Court                              1741                 216

His Lordship
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Mary Miles
 Somerset 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
doth prosecuteth doth Come hereinto the County Court of the same Lord propry held for the said
County of Somerset (to witt) at dividing Creek in the same County the Seventeenth day of November in the year
of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and forty one before Robert King Esq.r and his Associates the same
Lord proprietary his Justices of the same County Court and for the said Lord propry doth give the Court here
to understand and be Informed that Mary Miles late of Coventry parish in the said County of Somerset spinster
the tenth day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and forty at Somerset County af.d
within the Jurisdiction of this Court did Commit fornication with a Certain Henry Walston and did permit the
same Henry then and there to have Carn^al^ knowledge of her body and then and there a bastard Child on her body
to beget to the high displeasure of Almighty God to the evill Example of all others in such Case offending and
against the peace of the right Honrble the Lord proprietary his good rule and Government and Contrary to the
Act of Assembly in such Case made and provided &c  Whereupon the same Attorney of the same Lord propry for the
said Lord proprietary prays the advice of the Court in the premisses and that due process against the said Mary Miles
may Issue to Answer &c

                                     Thereupon it is Commanded the sheriffe of Somerset County that he should take the
said Mary Miles if &.c to Answer &.c and afterwards to witt the Seventeenth day of November before his
Lordships Justices at a Court then held at dividing Creek Came the af.d Mary Miles in her proper person
According to a Certain recognizance by her ^and her Security^ in this part first Acknowledged and had a hearing of the Information af.d
and saith that she Cannot deny but that She is guilty of the premisses af.d in the Information af.d Specified in
manner and form as by the Information af.d above against her supposed and the premisses af.d in the Information
af.d expressly Acknowledgeth and maketh Oath that a Certain Henry Walston is the begetter of the bastard Child
she stands Informed for and is willing to pay her fine for the fact af.d &c

                   Whereupon all and Singular the premisses being seen and by the Court here fully understood it is Considered
by the Court here that the af.d Mary Miles pay unto his said Lordship the right Honourable Charles absolute Lord
and proprietary of the province of Maryland for her fine by the Court hereupon her Imposed for and by occasion
of the premisses af.d whereof in form af.d she is Convict thirty shillings Currt money of Maryland and that the said Mary
Miles be taken to satisfie his said Lordship of the fine af.d &c

                Whereupon the said Mary Miles is ordered to give Security to save and keep Indemnified as well the
                                                                                                                                                    Justices


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