WRG: This came through the Worcester County List. A friend of mine copied out of the above books the fornication suits and a couple of other things relative to Worcester County. Collections of the Worcester Society of Antiquity Vol. 5 Published by the Society, 1883 1731-2 - February term Benjamin Whitney of Lancaster, Husbandman being bound over by way of Recognizance to this Court by Mr. Justice Wilder to answer for his being Guilty of the Sin of Fornication, appeared in Court & Pleaded Guilty whereupon the Court ordered that he pay as a fine the Sum of Twenty Shillings & Cost 2/6 which he paid Down in Court and his Recognizance was Cancelled.