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 The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. The 4 of ye 12 Month, 170;. We. ye Grand Jury of ye City of Philadelphia, present Sarah Stivee, wife of John Stivee, of this city, for being dressed in man's cloathes, contrary to the nature of her sects, and in such disguises walked through the streets ... to the grate dis turbance of well minded persons. . . . Signed in behalf of the rest, Abraham Hooper, foreman.

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his law. But that should not be; and as far as is consistent with the untechnical pur poses of the present paper, some of his legal history shall be recorded. .He was Welsh by birth, and came in 1686 to the Province as Attorney-General, being a lawyer by education and talented by na ture. In the same year we find him given the office of clerk of the County Court of Phila delphia. " Upon y '

Judg's Complaint to this board of ye Ill be

Perhaps the allusion to Morton of the Merry Mount is misleading haviour of Patrick in this connection Robsinson. . . it is The fancy ball in ques ordered. . . yc Records tion was given by a .. . be. . . Delivered Mr. William Till, and to David Lloyd, who is was a perfectly re Ordered to succeed spectable affair in all him in his office." probability. A His This, and the following tory of Pennsylvania, quotations below, are written but a few years earlier than this time from the first and sec by Gabriel Thomas, ond volumes of the contains the following Colonial Records. In interesting comment 1688, " One of the (page 32): "Of Law Members of The Councill was desired to go to yers and Physicians I David Lloyd, ye Clark shall say nothing, be cause this Countrey is of y' Provll Court . . . very Peaceable and to Require him fforHealty; long may it with to attend y" Coun continue so and never cil and to bring with him ye Original Rec have occasion for the JAMES I.OOAN. Tongue of the one, nor ords. . . . He refused the Pen of the other, it, saying you may both equally destructive to Mens Estates and command the Judges, and ye Judges might Lives; besides forsooth, they, Hang Man Order him, & other Slight and Scornfull like, have a License to Murder and make Expressions he used." The minutes of the Mischief." ensuing meetings now disclose a lively state If this estimate of attorneys and doctors of things over this very proper refusal to was a universal one at this time, Dr. More depart from regular rules of court. But on and Lawyer Guest might well have been the 5th ' day of the 1st month, 1689, the discouraged by the outlook, and hailed the clerk succumbs, and the Record was handed small salary paid the Chief-Justice as at in. In the same year he became Clerk of the Assembly, and in four he was elected least a sure thing. The first highly prominent man who filled to this body, also serving as a member of this ofhce was David Lloyd. Perhaps he is the Provincial Council with Samuel Carpen better remembered for his politics than for ter, Edward Shippen, and others. In 1701