[977] Cases of Sarah Helwis, Sept. 9, 1664; Katherine Nailer, 1672; Mary Sanders, March 4, 1674/5; and Thomas Winsor, Sept. 17, 1685: all in MSS. Early Court Files of Suffolk, Nos. 651, 1148, 1360, 2347. The Sanders case is also in Noble's Records of the Court of Assistants; Cowley, Our Divorce Courts, 28.
[978] The Nailer case. Two years later (March 11, 1674/5) we learn that "Edward Naylor being Complayned on for Intruding into his late wiues Katherin Nannys Company The Court on hearing what was lajd to the sajd Naylors charge doe Judge & declare his bond to be forfeited."—Noble's Records of Court of Assistants, I, 32.
[979] It is just possible that in the case of Mary Drury, Oct. 10, 1677, the decree is intended as a separation from bed and board. It is voted "whether the Court [probably the assistants] would declare it a nullity, past in the negative. Whether they would be compelled to Cohabit past in ye Negative."—MSS. Early Court Files of Suffolk, No. 1644. Four years earlier (ca. March 5, 1673) the following record appears: "In the case of Hugh Drury & Mary His Wife The Court after due hearing of the case & euidences therein produced Doe declare that they Doe enjoine them both to liue together according to the ordinance of God as man and wife."—Noble's Rec. of Court of Assistants, I, 91.
[980] Nov. 3, 1692: Acts and Resolves, I, 61.
[981] Jan. 13, 1755: ibid., III, 782.
[982] In Whitmore, Col. Laws of Mass. (1672-85), 42, the date is given as 1641; but ibid. (1660-72), 146, it is 1647.
[983] June 19, 1696: Acts and Resolves, I, 209; cf. Acts and Laws, 1692-1765, 60.
[984] June 6, 1694: Acts and Resolves, I, 171, 172.
[985] Dec. 2, 1698: ibid., 353, 354.
[986] Jan. 29, 1710/11: MSS. Records of the Court of Gen. Sessions of Suffolk, I, 225.