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Peter Collinson purchased and forwarded to the Secretary a case of books, a list of which is annexed, viz .:
"The Gentleman Instructed; Puffendorf's Law of Nature and Nations ; The Spectator, 8 vol .; The Turkish Spy, 8 vol .; Tournefort's Voyages, 2 vol .; Whit- son's Theory ; Addison's Travels ; Barclay's Apology ; Locke on Education ; Reli- gion of Nature Delineated ; Gorden Geography; Grammar; Sherlock on Death ; Whitson's Astro. Principles ; Mondrall's Travels ; Dyches' Dictionary ; Tull's Husbandry ; Blackmoore on ye Creation ; Independent Whig, 3 vol .; Wood's In- stitute on ye Laws of England; Milton's Paradise Lost and Regained, 2 vol. ; Puffendorf's Hist. of Sweden ; Rawligh's Hist. of ye World, 2 vol .; The Life of the Duke of Marlborough, 2 vol."
When the books were received, the Secretary called a special meeting of the Company to examine them; and thus began, nearly one hundred and twenty years ago, this library, which has gradually and steadily increased to the present time. It was the first in the colony outside of Philadelphia, and when we con- sider the condition of the country at that early day-the scarcity of money-the delay and difficulty in obtaining books from the other side of the Atlantic, it must be admitted that this effort to establish a permanent institution for the intellectual improvement of themselves and their posterity was in the highest degree creditable to its founders.
They continued to receive their supply of books directly from London until about the year 1760, when they were furnished for a considerable period by David Hall, a bookseller in Philadelphia. In many cases the desired works could not be found in the city, and were procured in England by him for the Company.
ADDENDA.
[On page 147, a promise was made to give a further account of the Chester Mills, and the disasters which befel that early improvement. At the proper place in the narrative, the fulfillment of this promise was inadvertently omitted. To supply this omission, some extracts will be here inserted, from a conveyance executed in 1705 by Samuel Carpenter to Caleb Pusey of his interest in the property. This document contains the only correct account of these carly erected mills, that has come under the notice of the author.]
After reciting the verbal partnership and the number of shares held by each partner as given on page 147, the record proceeds: " And it was further agreed that the said Caleb Pusey should be agent and Manager of said joynt concern. And the said Caleb Pusey, soon after the proprietary's first arrival in this Pro- vince obtained two warrants from him for taking up land to set the said mills upon, The one dated * * * * * ********* ** * * containing in all Twenty acres, Upon or near which he the said Caleb, with the advice of the said Proprietary and such other of the said partners as then were in this Pro- vince in the year of our Lord 1683, did at the joynt charge of all the said Part- ners Erect a corn mill upon the said creek near his new dwelling house, which mill with the dam belonging to it were soon carried away by the flood. And the said Caleb Pusey afterwards, by the advice of the said Proprietary and other partners that were here, did upon the said joynt account, build another corn mill and sawmill upon part of the said twenty acres of land and made a dam over said creek a little above where the first mill stood. But the flood carried away that dam. Whereupon, the said partners considering the violence of the said creek in times of land floods, found it most advisable to take the water out of the creek about a mile above the said mills. And for that purpose the said Caleb Pusey of one Thomas Brassey, a slip of land about four perches in breadth adjoining upon the said creek did purchase containing about two acres, when he digged and made a mill race or water course down to the said mills; and whereas the said Richard Townsend [one of the partners,] assigned or relin- quished all his said four parts or shares of and in the said mills and premises, unto the said Caleb Pusey. And whereas the charges of making said water course and necessary repairs of said mills did far surmount the earnings and profits thereof, so that the said partners became indebted to one Robert Turner in sundry sums of money wch their said agent from time to time borrowed and received of him upon their joynt account, but all the said Partners except the said Proprietary and Caleb Pusey refusing or neglecting to pay their parts thereof, he the said Robert sued them for the sume of £319 18s. 73d. current money of Pennsylvania in the County Court held for the said County of Chester the 14th day of June, A. D. 1692, whereupon. he recovered the said debt with costs of suit and afterwards took out a writ of execution directed to the then Coroner* of the said County, commanding * * * * * * * And the said Coroner having exposed the premises to sale and finding no buyers, afterwards to witt, the 13th day of September in the said year 1692, pursuant to the laws of this Province, in such case made and provided, did Bargain Sell and
* Caleb Pusey was at this time Sheriff of Chester County.
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deliver to the said Robert Turner, To hold to him his heirs and Assigns forever All those twenty-two shares and proporcons of the said Corn and Saw-mills and implements thereof, and twenty-two shares of the said twenty acres of land in full satisfaction of said debt of 319£ 18S 73D and of 11£ 10S 3D charges. The The said Coroner having returned the said Caleb Pusey and Company the sum of £46 13s 73d being the overplus of what the twenty-two shares of the said mills and premises amounted to according to the said appraisment, as by the records * * * "
[Robert Turner conveyed his twenty-two shares of the property to Samuel Carpenter in 1692, and the mills having been rebuilt in a substantial manner, on Caleb Pusey's land, he executed a release of the proper proportions thereof to Samuel Carpenter and William Penn. The deed from which the above extract was taken, conveys the twenty-two shares of Samuel Carpenter to Caleb Pusey, the consideration being £1000. Between 1692 and 1705, the ownership of the mills was in Samuel Carpenter, William Penn and Caleb Pusey. ]
[Accompanying Roggeveen's Dutch Map of New Netherland, a fac simile of a part of which faces page 18, is a description of the country in French. The fol- lowing is a translation of that description, so far as it relates to the Delaware River and Bay.]
" The west Cape of the South river of New Netherland (or the New Low Coun- tries) is called Cape Hinlope and the East-Cape May ; the name of which takes its origin from Cornelins Jacob May, who was an experienced pilot on this coast in the service of the West India Company, who raised a pillar to his memory in the year 1623.
" OF THE SOUTH RIVER.
" This River at the mouth near this Cape (May) is tolerably large and spacious but interspersed with many shoals and sand banks such as to make the entrance near Cape Hinloope, between the West Bank and the Bank of Brandywine, and when thus made there is a great depth named the Hoere Kille. The entrance to this river is very deep, the least is five fathoms till it begins to pass by the Island of Hammen where it is not less than four fathoms, and at the corner, where is the point of Collacke, there extends a sand bank across the river, where one finds it five fathoms, and then it is found deeper after having passed the Island of Reden. As soon as you pass this Island you also pass two little Ports or Castles, one of which is named (that to the larboard) Fort Casimires, and that to the starboard Fort Elsenbourg ; adjoining the Castle, one sees issue a creek or canal, called Varcken's Kill, which is followed by another called Maratikus kill. The river in this place as far as Christina is at least four fathoms deep. This country is called Lapland, where the river is three fathoms deep which depth continues as far as it is navigable to the country of the Sauno.
" Opposite to Matymecough, lie two little Isles, which are supported by a bank of sand as far as Gottenburgh, then its course passes close to the Castle of Nassau ; but if you would approach it near Gottenburgh about the Schuyl-kil, I do not know how to give you better advice. The properties and approaches are known well enough, when you enter the river, being the same as they are so naturally portrayed on the map you see, with all its shoals and depths.
" There has fallen into my hands many maps describing this River, but I have found them all vary-not one agreeing with another, but when I saw the demon- stration of this figure, which so distinctly displays all its properties and ap- proaches, I then proposed to myself to make you a participator, hoping it will serve you as an easy and safe Pilot."
INDEX.
[The Biographical Notices being arranged in alphabetical order, this Index will refer exclusively to the other parts of the work. ]
A.
AFFIRMATION ACT, money paid for the confirmation of the, by the Crown, 221, 235, 236; another, passed by Parliament, 223.
AHAROMMUNY, location of the island of 57.
ALARM, false, created by Governor Evans, 214; caused by an un- founded rumor of an Indian insur- rection, 168.
ALRICHS, JACOB, Director of New Am- stel, 72 ; unpopularity and death of, 76.
AMES or AMOS LAND, block-house to confine a madman, to be erected in, 116; early surveys of land in, 522, 523; notice of, 389.
ANDERSON, CAPT. PATRICK, letter to Dr. Franklin from, 294.
ANDRIESON, PETER, resists the order of the Dutch to remove, 78.
ANDROS, SIR EDMUND, appointed Go- vernor, 100; visit to the Delaware, 101; special court held at New Castle by, 102; letter to the Jus- tices of Upland Court from, 105. ARBITRATORS, earliest notice of, 107. ARMSTRONG, GENERAL, erroneons opi- nion of, 305; position of, at the Battle of Brandywine, 305.
ARMY, destitute condition of the Ame- rican, 319; winter quarters of the, at the Valley Forge, 328; occupa- tion of Philadelphia by the British, 328; grain to be threshed for the American, 329 ; damage and waste committed by the British, 544 to 554.
ASCHOM, CHARLES, complaints against, as Deputy Surveyor, 155.
ASSAULT AND BATTERY, trial for in Up- land Court, 110.
ASSEMBLY, first meeting of the, 139; proceedings of the, 140; where the sittings of the, were held, 142; second meeting of the, 146 ; list of members of the, 524; resignation of the Quaker members of the, 265 ; disputes between the Governor and the, 265 ; appointment of Depnties to Congress by the, 280: list of members of the, from Delaware County, 528.
ASSESSMENT, general, of all the coun- ties, 189; of historical interest, 190.
ASSESSORS, appointment of, 201.
ASSOCIATORS, organization of military, 257 ; Regiment of, in Chester Coun- ty, 258; object of the. misrepre- sented, 284; Independence disa- vowed by the, 284; quantity of powder to be reported by the, 284 ; perfect organization of the, 287; cartridges delivered to the, 290 ; convention of the, 293.
ASTON, notice of, 400.
ASTROLOGY, young men dealt with by Friends for practicing, 192, 193.
ATLEE, COLONEL, battalion of, to be quartered in Philadelphia, 291; notice of his command, 292. ATTESTATION, form of, for Jurors pre- scribed by Wm. Penn, 143.
ATTORNEYS, not allowed to plead, 110; first appearance of on behalf of the Crown, 160; compensation of the King's, 234; general, 253.
AUGUSTA FRIGATE, blowing up of the, 321.
B.
BALTIMORE, LORD, obtained his patent for Maryland, 15 ; his conference at Upland with Governor Markham,
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129, messengers sent to Upland by, 136 ; principles adopted for set- tlement of boundary agreed upon with, 244.
BANK, of Delaware County established, 352.
BAPTISTS, organization of seventh-day, 221 ; first regular organization of, 225, 543.
BARLEY, to be received for taxes, 113.
BARONY, order of William Penn to lay out the Welsh Tract as a, 164 ; the validity of the grant of a, advocated by Thomas Lloyd, 172; the idea of a, yielded by the Welsh, 173.
BEAVERS, number of skins exported, 10; decline of the Dutch trade in, 25; used as currency, 89; standard value of and export duty on, 89.
BEEKMAN, WILLIAM, appointed Vice- Director on the Delaware, 74.
BESH, JOHN AMUNDSON, grant of land to, 58, 519; commission of and object of his appointment, 59, 61 ; probable revocation of grant to, 83. BETHEL, road laid out to Chichester from, 159 ; hamlet of, presented by the Grand Jury, 179; derivation of the name of, 382; notice of the township of, 382.
BEVERS RHEEDE, FORT, erected, 49; lo- cation of, 50; Swedes build in front of, 51.
BILLINGSPORT, fort erected at, 291; fort at captured and abandoned, 317; British ships at, 319.
BIOGRAPHY, of the early settlers and eminent men of Delaware County, 422.
BIRDS, of Delaware County, catalogue of, by John Cassin, 435.
BIRMINGHAM, settlements extended to, 158; Friends' Meeting established at, 227; fair held at, 225; battle at meeting-house, 311; notice of, 401.
BLACKWELL, JOHN, appointed Lieuten- ant-Governor, 169 ; reprimands his council, 171 ; removal trom office, 179.
BLANKE, JURIAEN, Vessel of, ordered off by the Swedes, 41.
BLANKETS, how to be procured for the soldiers, 297, 298, 319.
BLOCK, ADRIAN, his ship burned, 3 ; con- structs a new vessel, 3.
BLOCK HOUSE, at Upland, 117; at Wi- cacco, occupied as a church, 115 ; to be built at Amesland for a lunatic, 116 ; on Tinicum mentioned, 146.
BLUE BELL, capture of Americans at the, 324.
BOGART, JOST DE, position of, on the Delaware, 26.
BONSALL, WILLIAM, inhuman murder of, 355.
BOOKS, pernicious, presented by the Grand Jury, 193.
BOON'S DAM, breastwork erected on, 322.
BOSTON, contribution for building a Friends' meeting-house at, 218; subscription for relief of suffering people at 282.
BOTANY, catalogue of plants growing in Delaware County, 417.
BOUNDARY, the King's letter respecting Maryland, 129; between Philadel- phia and Chester Counties esta- blished by the Council, 154: the last named confirmed, 171; of the Welsh tract, 165; temporary, be- tween Chester and New Castle Counties established, 187 ; the cir- cular, run, 206; the circular con- firmed, 222; disputes about the circular, 236; order of the King for the settlement of the Maryland. 247 ; agreement about the Mary- land, 247.
BOWATER, JOHN, a meeting-house to be erected for the meeting held at his house, 202.
BRADFORD, organized as a township, 213 ; Friends' Monthly Meeting for, established, 246.
BRANDYWINE, road laid out to upper settlements on the, 210; Baptist Church of, established, 226, 543 ; Indian claim to land on the, 237; rates of fare established at Chadd's Ford on the, 246; ferry on the, 254; fishery regulated in the, 274 ; posi- tion taken by Washington on the, 305 ; battle of, 306-313 ; retreat of the American Army from the, 308 ; incidents of the battle of, 311 ; Act of Assembly for making a canal along the, 346.
BRANNAN, BENJAMIN, instructs persons in the art of making saltpetre, 288. BREAKWATER, stone sent from Delaware County to the, rejected, 359 ; report on the quality of the stone sent to the, 359.
BREASTWORKS, thrown up on the Dela- ware, 285.
BRIDGES, order of the court for the erec- tion of a horse bridge, 159 ; Chester presented for not erecting a foot
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bridge, 161 ; repair of the, ordered by the court, 168; to be a county charge, 216; to be erected over Crum and Ridley Creeks, 226. BRIDLE ROAD, to be laid out from Mar- cus Hook to Chester, 190.
BRITISH ARMY, march of the, to Ken- net, 305 ; movements of the, at the Battle of Brandywine, 307; en- campment in Aston of the, 313; depredations committed by the, 313, 545 ; enters Philadelphia, 316; foraging party from the, 330.
BRITISH FLEET, enters the Delaware, 301 ; goes out to sea, 302 ; returns to the Delaware, 317 ; passes up to Philadelphia, 325.
BROOKE, CAPT. WILLIAM, narrow escape of, from capture by the British, 325.
BURD ASYLUM, notice of the, 386.
BURYING GROUND, site of the, at Tini- cum, 44; Friends', established at Chester, 148 ; Friends', established at Haverford, Merion and Schuyl- kill, 149 ; Friends', established at Chichester, 158 ; purchase of San- dy Bank, 179; early notice of one at Chester, 211 ; grave-stones to be removed from Friends', 215.
C.
CALCON HOOK, taxable persons residing in, 113 ; attached to Darby town- ship, 161 ; notice of, 389.
CALN, Friends' Meeting settled at, 226 ; meeting-house erected at, 238.
CALENDAR, Act for the correction of the, 261; action of the Yearly Meeting of Friends on the new, 261. '
CAMPANIUS, REV. JOHN, accompanies Gov. Printz to New Sweden, 30; his account of the Swedish set- tlers, 32 ; is visited by the Indians, and translates Luther's Catechism into their language, 44; conse- crated a church at Tinicum, 44; his religious instruction to the In- dians, 45 ; his description of places in New Sweden, 54 ; returns to his native country, 54.
CANTWELL, EDMUND, appointed Sheriff and Collector of quit-rents on the Delaware, 96 ; appointed Surveyor, 101.
CARR, SIR ROBERT, a royal commissioner in the expedition against the Dutch, 87 ; rapacious conduct aud cupid- ity of, on the Delaware, 88; his conduct disapproved, 89.
CARTLIDGE, JOHN AND EDMUND, wrong- fully accused of causing the death of an Indian, 231.
CARTLIDGE, EDMUND, Sen., tombstone of, 385.
CAROLUS, REV. LAURENTIUS, is successor to Campanins as Swedish priest, 54; elopement of his wife, 80; is divorced and married himself, 81 ; persecution of, 81; suspected of being implicated in the insurrec- tion of the Long Finn, 92.
CASIMIR, FORT, erection of, protested against by Gov. Printz, 57; the erection of a Fort below, recom- mended, 61; captured by the Swedes, 61 ; name of, changed, 63; recaptured by the Dutch, 66.
CATTLE, introduction of, on the Dela- ware, 17, 33 ; marks and brands of, recorded, 151 ; great loss of, for want of provender, 190; to be driven from the Delaware on the approach of the enemy, 295 ; per- sons appointed to drive the, 300. CEDAR SWAMP, ancient, on Tinicum Island, 413.
CHADD'S FORD, ferry established at, 246 ; ferry at, proves not to be remune- rative, 255 ; flat rebuilt for, 276; breastwork erected near, 308; Gen. Knyphausen crosses at, 308. CHARITY, large amount contributed by the early Quakers for purposes of, 254.
CHARLES II., KING, grant from, to Wil- liam Penn, 125; death of, 154. CHARLESTON, relief contributed by Friends to sufferers by a great fire at, 254.
CHESTER, meeting to be held in the Court-house at, 137 ; name of Up- land changed to, 139 ; first Assem- bly meet at, 139; Indian name of, 145, 381; burial place for Friends established at, 148 ; meet- ing-house for Friends proposed to be built at, 166; street and land- ing place laid out at, 167, 174; first Friends' meeting-house erect- ed at, 188; early trade of, 191; mills erected, 146; street between David Lloyd's ground and the Green laid out in, 178; yellow fever supposed to have prevailed at, 200 ; landing of William Penn at, 200; privilege confirmed of holding fairs and markets at, 203 ; petition for making the town of, a free port, 221 ; draw-bridge re-
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paired at, 255 : public pound at, 232; proposition to remove the seat of government to, 239 ; a se- cond Friends' meeting-house erect- ed at, 245; troops quartered at, 289 ; land force stationed at, 290; militia to encamp near, 297; coun- ty records removed from, 300; no shelter at for more troops, 302 : more troops ordered to, 303 ; Gen. Armstrong commands the militia at, 303 ; Gen. Washington retreats to, 309 ; British in possession of, 313; Cornwallis marches to, 324 ; derivation of the name of, 377; notice of, 377 ; ancient buildings at, 378 ; town-hall of, 379 ; news- papers published at, 379, 380. See Court and Court-houses.
CHESTER COUNTY, established, 139 ; first court held for, 143; first appoint- ment of Justices for, 143; seal adopted for, 146; boundary be- tween Philadelphia and, 154 ; mis- take in running boundary line of, 155; members of Council from, 155. Haverford and Radnor refuse to recognize the authorities of, 158; ground purchased for the use of, 204; Treasurer of, serves gratis, 254; whips bought and repaired for the service of, 205; wagons furnished to the army by, 268, 298, 303 ; delegates to Congress from, 292 ; delegates to the State Con- vention, 293 ; all the stockings and blankets in, to be bought for the soldiers, 295 ; account to be taken of provisions in, 301 ; division of, 344 ; remarks on division of, 346. CHESTER CREEK, petition for a bridge over, at Chester rejected by Conn- cil, 196 ; petition for a road from the King's road to the ferry over, 200; act passed authorizing a bridge over, at Chester, 212; In- dian name of, 381 : description of, 403.
CHEVAUX-DE-FRIZE, placed in the De- laware, 285 ; more to be sunk, 287 ; additional tiers to be sunk at Bil- lingsport, 292; a portion of the, removed by the enemy, 319.
CHEYNEY, THOMAS, conveys correct in- telligence to Washington at the Battle of Brandywine, 307.
CHICHESTER, name of Marcus Hook changed to, 136 ; Friends' Meeting held at, 137; Monthly Meeting es- tablished at, 149; bounds of ex-
tended, 158; Friends' graveyard established and Meeting erected in township of, 158; fairs to be held at, 203.
CHRISTINA, FORT, erected, 22; W. I.
Company advised of the erection of, 23; town laid ont adjoining, 63; besieged and captured by the Dutch, 66: Gov. Rysingh refuses the restoration of, 67; name of changed, 72.
CHRISTINA, QUEEN, abdicates the throne of Sweden, 65.
CHURCH, at Christina, 34; at Tinicum, 44; at Wicacco, 15, 102; land of the, taken in by Neels Laerson, 120; at Tinicum damaged by the Dutch, 66; at Tinicum and Wicacco, or- dered by the court to be repaired, 122 ; of St. Paul erected, 208, 532 ; St. Martins, 207; lands of the Swedes at Chester, 199, 211, 555 : first mission of the Catholic, 241. CHURCHES, early organized, 202, 226, 398, 532, 543; receive aid from a lottery, 272.
CIRCULAR LINE, the running of the, 206; confirmed by the Assembly, 222 ; confirmatory act rejected by the King and Council, 229; renewed controversy about the, 236; angry disputes about the, 244.
CITY COLONY, of Amsterdam establish- ed, 72 ; territorial limits enlarged, 77, 80, 84.
CLERK, of Upland Court, 107; of Ches- ter Conrt, 131, 146; of the crown employed, 254.
CLIFTON, 387 ; Clifton Hall, 387, 393.
CLIMATE, important tables exhibiting that of Delaware County, 440.
CLOCK-WEIGHTS, leaden, taken for mili- tary purposes, 291.
COBB'S CREEK, Indian name of, 38 ; ori- gin of the modern name, 203.
COBOURN, THOMAS, erects a mill above Chester mills, 162; disregards the the mandate of the Commissioners of Property, 162.
COIN, counterfeiting of, a common of- fence, 182 ; punishment for expo- sing bad, 201; kinds of, in use, 235 ; value of, fixed by law, 251. COLEMAN, HENRY, charged with sedi- tion, 92.
COLLECTORS of tax, early appointment of, 151.
COLVE, ANTHONY, appointed Governor General, 99.
COMMASSUNGH, or Finland described, 55.
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COMMISSIONERS, to lay out a city, arri- val of, 132; to examine Upland as a site for a city, 133.
CONCORD, township of, organized, 144; complaint of Friends against the Indians, 155 ; first Friends' meet- ing held at, 158 ; Friends' meeting house erected at, 195; meeting house of, used as a military hospi- tal, 313 ; notice of, 382 ; St. John's Church in, 383.
CONCORDVILLE, 384.
CONESTOGO, road to, partly confirmed, 231; survey of road, 233. CONGRESS, representatives from Chester County in 280, 292 ; first meeting of, 280; second meeting of, 285; appropriation by, for the defence of the Delaware, 291.
CONSTABLES, early appointments of, 110, 144; reports of, 156; first to at- tend court, 217 ; the Welsh, refuse to appear at the Chester Court, 173. CONSTITUTION, new, adopted, 200.
CONTINENTAL MONEY, great depreciation of 332, 333, 336, 339.
CORRESPONDENCE, revolutionary com- mittee of, 280, 281. CORSEN, ARENT. his alleged purchase at the Schuylkill, 17.
COUNCIL, members and acts of Gov. Markham's, 129, 133; sittings of Markham's, where held, 50 ; newly elected members of, 200; of state established, 206.
COUNTIES, three established by William Penn, 139 : an act of union with the three lower, 141; separation from the province of the three lower, 182 ; relative progress made in the several, in improvement, 189; legislative separation with the three lower, 209.
COUNTRY, custom of the, 186.
COURT, messenger asked for, 72 ; of assi- zes, how composed, 90 ; established by Gov. Lovelace, 90; special, held at New Castle, 102; of Upland, levies a tax, 112, 119 ; Justices of Upland, commissioned, 105; earlier than Upland, held, 107 ; character and jurisdiction of Upland, 105, 125, 128 ; names and residences of the Justices of Upland, 123; mutila- tion of the record of Upland, 127 ; first under the administration of Gov. Markham, 131; larceny trial in, 135; first held for Chester County, 143; Gov. Penu presides at, 143; the monthly, 157 ; pun-
ishment inflicted by the, 157 ; sen- tence for abuse of the, 157; of equity, held at Chester, 160 ; leg- islation by the, 183; singular reports made to the, 184; levy ordered by the, 184; Provincial, held at Chester, 197, 199, 214; sentences of the, 212.
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