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1777. Sessions. [Friday] Dec. 19.

and Impey so summ’d up.
By this Verdict.
Betty was acquitted.
Peggy found Guilty.
Sentence was pronounced against Peggy by the Cheif Justice. To be executed on Monday. But Peggy pleaded in Stay of Execution, that she with Child two months gone.
The Sheriff was directed to summon a Jury of Matrons to try that Plea, to morrow, it now being [near?] five in the afternoon, which is two or three hours later than the Court usually sits [ILL]

Copy of the Indictment.
Fort William in Bengal. The Jurors of our Lord the King upon their Oath present that Betty and Peggy of the Town of Calcutta and Factory of Fort William in the Province of Bengal being persons subject to the Jurisdiction of this Court not having Fear of God before their Eyes but being moved and seduced by the instigation of the Devil on the twenty third day of November in the year of our Lord One Thousand Seven hundred and Seventy Seven and in the Eighteenth year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third by the Grace of God of Great Britain, France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith and
so forth