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<p n="477">P Adjorn die Jovis scilt 6to die December 1722</p>
<p n="478"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Order touching<lb></lb>
the takeing of<lb></lb>
Recognizances to<lb></lb>
& Secure</note>
This Court having taken Notice, that severall Persons who<lb></lb>
have been charged before several Justices of the Peace of<lb></lb>
this County for receiving of Stolen Goods, Knowing the same<lb></lb>
to have been Stolen; for Assaults on women with intent<lb></lb>
to Ravish them; and for other hamous and notorious<lb></lb>
Offences, and have been bound ever by Recognizances to<lb></lb>
appear and answer for the same at the Sessions of Peace<lb></lb>
and Sessions of Oyer and Terminer for this County, have<lb></lb>
escaped Prosecution for the same, no Evidence having<lb></lb>
been given when the Tryals have been brought on upon<lb></lb>
the Indictments preferred against them for such Offences<lb></lb>
by reason that no Person or Persons have been bound<lb></lb>
over by Recognizance to Prosecute such Offenders with<lb></lb>
Effect for the Offences aforesaid, which has given an<lb></lb>
opportunity to such Offenders to agree and compound<lb></lb>
with the Prosecutors for a Sum of Money, and thereby<lb></lb>
such Prosecutions have been Stifled, so that the Offence<lb></lb>
have escaped receiving consign Punishment for there<lb></lb>
Offences, which this Court is of Opinion hath been on<lb></lb>
Obstruction of Justice, and a great Omission in such<lb></lb>
Justices in not taking Recognizances to Prosecute such<lb></lb>
Offenders. Now to the intent that such like Offenders<lb></lb>
may for the future be duly Prosecuted for the Offences<lb></lb>
by them committed, It is hereby ordered by this Court<lb></lb>
that it be and it is hereby recommended and referred<lb></lb>
unto the Justices of the Peace for this County, that<lb></lb>
where any Person or Persons shall hereafter be<lb></lb>
charged before them upon Oath for receiving of Stolen<lb></lb>
Goods, Knowing the same to have been stolen, for<lb></lb>
Assaults on Women with intent to Ravish them<lb></lb>
or for any other hainous or notorious Offence<lb></lb>
triable at the Sessions of Peace, or Sessions of Oyer<lb></lb>
ar<obscured></obscured>
rminer for this County, and for which the said<lb></lb>
Justices shall commit such Person or Persons so charged<lb></lb>
to Prison for want of Sureties, or find over such Person<lb></lb>
or Persons by Recognizance to appear at the then next<lb></lb>
Sessions of Peace, or Sessions of Oyer and Terminer to be<lb></lb>
holden for this County, to answer for such Offence or</p>
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