his
absence from court.

_William Almy_ fined for taking away Mr. Glover's canoe without
leave.

_Josias Plastoree_ shall (for stealing four baskets of corn from
the Indians) return them eight baskets again, be fined 5l. and
hereafter to be called by the name of _Josias_, and not _Mr._ as
formerly he used to be.

_Joyce Bradwick_ shall give unto Alexander Beeks, 20s. for
promising him marriage without her friends' consent, and now
refusing to perform the same.

_William James_, for incontinency, was sentenced to be set in the
bilboes at Boston and Salem, and bound in 20l.

_Thomas Petet, for suspicion_ of slander, idleness and
stubbornness, is to be severely whipt and kept in hold.

_John Smith_, of Medford, for swearing, _being penitent_, was set
in bilboes.

_Richard Turner_, for being notoriously drunk, was fined 2l.

_John Hoggs_, for swearing _God's foot_, cursing his servant,
wishing "a pox of God take you," was fined 5l.

_Richard Ibrook_, for tempting two or more maids to uncleanness,
was fined 5l. to the country, and 20s. a piece to the two maids.

_Thomas Makepeace_, because of his novel disposition, was
informed we were weary of him, unless he reformed.

_Edward Palmer_, for his extortion, taking 33s. 7d. for the plank
and woodwork of Boston stocks, is fined 5l. and censured to be
set an hour in the stocks.

_John White_ is bound in 10l. to be of good behaviour, and not to
come into the company of Bull's wife alone.

_Thomas Lechford_ acknowledging he had _overset_ himself and is
sorry for it, promising to attend his calling, and not to meddle
with controversies, was dismissed.

_Sarah Hales_ was censured _for her miscarriage_ to be carried to
the gallows with a rope about her neck, and to sit upon the
ladder, the rope end flung over the gallows, and after to be
banished.

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Wholesale sentences of death in London, in 1820.

At the October session of the Old Bailey, London, sentence of
death was passed on thirty-seven persons, four of whom were
females. Four were condemned for passing counterfeit notes,
eleven for highway robberies, two for burglary, 11 for stealing
in dwelling houses, 1 for horse-stealing, 2 for sacrilege, &c.

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From the "Salem Mercury," J