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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1740-1742
Volume 861, Page 285b   View pdf image
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        June Court                      1742                       285

Lord proprietary for his fine by the Court hereupon him Imposed for and by Occasion of the premisses af.d whereof in
forme af.d he is Convict thirty shillings Curr.t money of Maryland for and that the said Edmond Knowles Junr be taken
to satisfie his said Lordship of the fine af.d &c

             Thereupon the said Edmond Knowles Junr is discharged from the Information af.d he paying the severall
officers Fees &c


The Same
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William Copsey
 Sommerset ss
                               Be it Remembred that Robert Jenckins Henry Gentleman attorney
of the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietary that now is who for the Same Lord Proprietary in
this part prosecuteth doth Come hereinto the County Court of the Same Lord Proprietary held for Sommerset County afd
to witt at Dividing Creek in the same County the fifteenth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand seven
hundred and forty two before Robert King 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 Court here to understand and be Informed
that William Copsey late of Somerset parish in the said County of Somerset planter the thirtieth day of November
in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and forty at the parish af.d in the County af.d within the Jur of
this Court did Commit fornication with a Certain Elizabeth Porter and of her body then and there had Carnall knowledge
and a bastard Child on the body of her the same Eizabeth then and there did beget to the high displeasure of Allmighty
God to the evill example of all others in such Case offending Contrary to the peace of the same 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 said Lord propry for the same Lord proprietary prays advice of the Court herein
the premisses and that due process of Law in this part against the said William Copsey may be made to answer unto the
said Lord proprietary again of and upon the premisses &c

             Thereupon it is Commanded the sheriffe of SOmerset County that he should take the said William Copsey
if &c to answer &c      And now to witt at that same Court held for the County af.d at dividing Creek this fifteenth day of
June Anno Dom one thousand seven hundred and forty two before the af.d Justices Came the af.d William Copsey
in his proper person and had a hearing of the Information af.d and saith that he Cannot deny but that he is guilty of
the premisses af.d in the Information af.d specified above upon him Imposed in manner and form as by the Information
af.d above against him supposed and the premisses Expressly Acknowledged &c

       Whereupon all and singular the premisses being seen and by the Court here fully understood  It is Considered by
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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1740-1742
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