[Footnote 499: WHITMORE, _Col. Laws of Mass._ (1660-72), 172; _ibid._ (1672-86), 101; _Mass. Col. Rec._, II, 207. _Cf._ FRIEDBERG, _Eheschliessung_, 477, note; NEWHALL, _Ye Great and General Court_, 349-65, giving interesting examples.] The courts were not without employment under this statute. In 1658 Paul Wilson appeared before the county court of Middlesex, sitting in Charlestown, "to answer the complaint of Deacon Upham for violent soliciting his daughter against his will." Whereupon the tribunal "admonished Wilson of his evil behavior towards the said Upham and his daughter Priscilla, and ordered him to give bond of ten pounds for his regular behavior towards the said parties." Accordingly the culprit gave bond "yt he will no more frequent the company of Priscilla Upham, nor by no means whether direct or indirect, make any more addresses vnto her without her fathers leave first orderly had & obteined."[500] For a similar offense, in 1672, the county court of Suffolk fined Benjamin Scott five pounds.[501] Two years later, before the same tribunal, Thomas Irons was presented "for procuring Richard Barnum to publish a marriage" between himself and Mary Arnold without her father's leave;[502] while the next February, as we learn from the record, John Lorin stood "convict on his own confession of making love to Mary Willis without her parents consent and after being forwarned by them, £5."[503] [Footnote 500: _MSS. Records of the County Court for Middlesex_, I, 131. In 1662 Marmaduke Johnson, who by his own confession had a wife in England, was convicted of trying to steal the affections of the daughter of Samuel Green without his knowledge and consent; and he was ordered to join his spouse by the first oportunity: _ibid._, I, 206. The next year Johnson was "fined £20 unless he give security" so to depart, in the meantime being "committed until the order is performed": _ibid._, 249. It may be further noted that on April 7, 1674, a Marmaduke Johnson is spoken of as "late constable of Cambridge": _ibid._, III, 87.] [Footnote 501: _MSS. Records of the County Court of Suffolk_, 106.] [Footnote 502: Irons was fined 20 shillings, and Barnum half that sum: _MSS. Records of the County Court of Suffolk_ (July 28, 1674), 255, 256. On the same day "Edward Peggy being bound over for using indirect means 'by powders or other wayes unlawfull to Engage the affections or desires of women kinde to him' and for begetting a bastard child"--in particular for illegally "drawing away the affections of two girls"--was assessed 10 pounds and put under bonds for good behavior: _ibid._, 261.] [Footnote 503: _Ibid._ (Feb. 4, 1674-75), 301. The records of the court of assistants in _Mass. Col. Rec._ (Sept. 1, 1640), I, 299, 300, contain a similar case.]