_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. ------------------------- 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. ------------------------- From the "Salem Mercury," July 28, 1788. _The following_ EXTRAORDINARY OCCURRENCE _is extracted from the_ EUROPEAN MAGAZINE _for_ 1787.