110 HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY. [1G77. 



deft, and afterwards by bim beaten, and his sbirt all torne 

 In pieces by the s** deft, and therefore desires y' the Court will 

 inflict punishment accordino; to the meritt of the s*^ def, and 

 that hee is one of the members of the Court, hee may bee so 

 maintained." 



" The def sayeth that the pP hath struck, etc." 



"The High Sheriffe, Capt° Edm. Cantwell desires that the 

 Court will take the case in consideration, and not sufi'er a Jus- 

 tice of Peace shall be so abused ! 



" The Court haveing Examined into ye whole businesse, and 

 heard the debates of both partees, together w"" the Testimony of 

 Lace Coleman, Doe Condemne the said oele oelsen in a fyne of 

 two hundred and Ten gilders ; sixty thereof for the Poore 

 or Church, and the remainder 150 gilders to the Sheriffe, and 

 doe further order y' the *s'^ oele oelsen doe humbly ask forgive- 

 ness of Justice Israeli Helm and the Co'^' for his s*^ offence." 



" The Co''' & High Sherife Conciedering that the s*^ oele was a 

 poore man w*'' a great charge of Children ; uppon his humble 

 submission did Remit & forgive him the one hundred and fifty 

 gilders fyne."^ 



Albert Hendricx, having served out "his leare" as constable, 

 was dismissed by the Court at his own request, and William 

 orian appointed " Constable for the jurisdiction of this court" 

 in his place. Hendrix (Hendrixon) is the first person known to 

 have held the office in Pennsylvania. 



Jurian Hartswelder, (Hartsfelder,) the Deputy Sheriff, being 

 about to ren)0ve further up the river, resigned his office. He 

 was succeeded by Micael Izzard.^ 



At the June Court of this year, an order was adopted in 

 respect to the admission of Attorneys to plead in the Court,^ but 

 before the close of the year, it became the duty of the Court to 

 publish a resolution of the Governor and Council, by which it 

 was " ordered that pleading attorneys bee no Longer allowed to 

 practize in ye governm'' but for ye: depending causes."* 



The last adjustment of the dividing line between Upland and 

 New Castle ot which there is any record, seemed to fix the divi- 

 sion between the two districts about the Christina ; but a man- 

 date issued from the New Castle Court on 18th of September of 

 this year, of which the following is an extract, would indicate 

 that a different arrangement had been made : — 



1 Rec. Upland Court, 53. 2 jb, 57. 



* In the New Castle Court, an Attorney, on his ailinission, was sworn ''not to exact 

 unallowed fees, not to take lees from both plaintiff and defendant, and that he will not 

 take any apparent unjust cause, but behave as all Attorneys ouyht to do." Records, 

 p. 96. 



♦ Rec. Upland Court, p. 58 and 82. • 



