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Kent County Criminal Court Records, 1728-1734
Volume 567, Page 41   View pdf image (33K)
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                        November Court 1728                            41

of this Court did Committ fornication with a Certain person to
the Jurors afd Unknown and did permit the same unknown
person then & there to have Carnal Knowledge
of her body & to begett then & there a bastard Child on the
body of her the same Mary 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 & Government and
Against the form of the act of Assembly in that Case
made & Provided            T francis Cler. pac.
Test Philip Ricketts Ann Spearman

    On the back of the afd Indictm.t was Endorst as folls
                            billa Vera        Henry Evans

    And the afd Mary in her proper person comes and
Defends the force & injury And saith that she cannot
gainsay the Indictment afd so as afd against her bro.t
nor but that she is guilty of the premisses above upon
her Imposed as by the afd Indictment it is alledged and
thereupon Submitts to the Court

    Therefore it is Considered by the Justices here to
with at the Court house in the Town of Chester in said County
this ninteenth day of November Anno Dom. Seventeen
hundred and twenty Eight that the afd Mary
pay the sum of thirty Shillings as a fine for Committing
fornication in form afd Confest Also that
she pay the sum of three hundred fifty two pounds of
tob.o Costs accrueing on the premisses to the
officers of this Court &c

    Ordered by the Court that the Sherf of Kent County
do keep the said Mary in safe Custody untill the officers
of this Court she shall Satisfie


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