By the Gov' & Council Augst 25th 1693

Maryland ss
Ordered that the Sheriff of Talbot County take into his
custody the Body of Peter Sayer of the same County Gent &
him safe keep so as to have him before their Majestys Iustices
of the Prov Court at the next Prov' Court to be held at St
Marys the first tuesday in Oct' next to answer what shall then
& there be Objected agst him on their Majestys Behalf & also
that he summons Rob Ungle Rob Gouldesborough, Iames
Benson, Dominick Kirwan & Margarett Pope that all excuses
set apart they & every of them be also & appear at the time
& place afd to testify the truth of their knowledge on behalf of
their said Majestys against the said Sayer whereof Let them
not fail at their perill

Signed p Order

J LL Cl Consil

Liber K.

At the Complaint of M'Iohn Craycroft upon some difference p. 272 & dispute between him & Mr Lynes depending before the Assembly on a writ of Error brought by the said Lynes that the said Lynes by his tedious delays & putting of from time to time the filing of his errors endeavours to protract & tire Out the said Craycroft & keep him out of his just right the follo Order of this Board was Ordered to issue (viz1)

By his Exncie the Gov' & Council Augst 25th 1693

Maryland ss

Ordered that Mr Philip Lynes do within ten days from the date hereof file or Cause to be filed with the Clerk of the Council his Errors assigned upon a writ of Error by him brought against a Iudgment obtained against him by Mr Iohn Craycroft in the Provincial Court to the end that Copies thereof may be given to the said Craycroft or his Council in due time to answer the same & that peremptorily they come to a hearing about the beginning of the next Assembly

Signed p Order J LL Cl Consil

The honble Coll° Nicholas Greenberry having pursuant to a former order of this Board demanded of Mr Henry Darnal the surrender up of his Bonds formerly passed in this Province as security for Mr John Thurber Commander of the Ship Philip of New York for the due Navigation of the said Ship & paym' of her Duties according to Law for which he hath produced Certificate from the chief Officers of their Majestys p. 273 Customs in the port of Cowes of having fully Complyed therewith according to Law or to have the said Certificate endorsed on the back of the said Bond in discharge thereof & the said

Liber K. Darnal having to him the said Greenberry as also to this Board positively disowned & denied & to have any such Bonds in his Custody or to know where or in whose possession they may be, the said Coll° Greenberry hath moved & it is granted unto him that the said Certificate may be recorded in the Journal of this Board there to remain to posterity in discharge of the said bonds from any future pretence or claim thereunto the said Certificate produced being well viewed & approved of by this Board to be good Sufficient & Substantial Law to all intents & purposes to discharge the same Port of Cowes

P. 274

Know yee that Iohn Thurber Commander of the Ship Philip of New York from Maryld his Majstys Plantation in America hath duly Entred in this Port the [sealed] 31st of May last & the 6th ins' Iune & put on Land two hundred & fifty hhds & a pcell in Bulk Maryland Tobacco being all the Goods & Merchandize taken in at his Majestys said Plantation in America & wch hath paid his Majestys Subjects & additional Duty in discharge of his Bond this Voyage taken by the chief Officers at the port of Pottux' in Maryla aforesaid as [sealed] P Certificate thence dated the 8th of April last under the hand & Seal of Henry Lowe Collector witness our hands & Seals of Office this 10th of June 1684 Anno Caroli 2d XXXVI

Tho Cole Coll

Wm Bowles

Tho Moore

P Cust

p Compt

P. R. O.
Maryland

B. I. Vol. 8.
P. 120

At the Committee of Trade and Plantations
At the Councill Chamber at Whitehall
the 15th of September 1693.

Upon reading several Letters from the Governor and Councill of Maryland to the Committee dated the 14th of October 21st of December and 11th of April last together with Articles of Impeachment against S Thomas Lawrence Secretary of that Province upon which Articles the Governor and Councill of Maryland acquaint their Lordships they had committed and confined Sir Thomas Lawrence and had dismist him from being of the Councill and Judge of the Provinciall Court there appearing to the Committee no ground for such proceedings although the allegation conteined in the said Articles were But that the proceeding of the Governor and Councill in this matter are illegal and arbitrary. Their Lordships are

true.

B. I. Vol. 8.

of opinion that the Governor and Council of Maryland be P. R. O. directed to give Sir Thomas Lawrence a Copy of the Articles Maryland transmitted against him and that he return his answer unto them to the End their Majesty's pleasure thereupon may be known and that in the mean time Sir Thomas Lawrence be set at Liberty and be restored to his places of Councell' and Judge of the Provinciall Court and that he receive no Molestation or disturbance in the enjoyment of the Office of Secretary of Maryland according to His Majesty's former order in Councill of the second of March last and that permission be given in Maryland to examine all persons that shall give Evidence in this matter without any hindrance or discountenance to such persons as Sir Thomas Lawrence shall desire to be examined on his behalf.

Maryland Port of Annapolis Decemb' the 8th 1696 Then Came John LLewellin Gent late Clerk of his Majestys honble Council of this Province before his Excellency in Council & made Oath that this Journal from foll* 1 to foll 133 does Contain the full Acco' of all Proceedings had & taken during the Gov' of his Excellency Gov' Copley according to the best of his remembrance & knowledge

*memd the above Reference from Fol 1 to Fol 133 refers to

the Book from

whence this was

transcribed

May it please your Lordships

H Denton Cl Consil

Annapolis June 4th 1697

Liber K.

Upon Perusall of a former Iournal of Gov' & Council in the time of his late Excellency Lionel Copley Esq' we find a Letter signed by severall of us directed to Mr Peter Paggen & dated 21st of Decem' 1692 & being apprehensive that his present Excellency Francis Nicholson Esq' our Gov' is very much reflected on thereby we humbly beg Leave of your Lordships to do his Excellency what Iustice we can by acquainting your Lordship with the Reasons & Motives of that Letter & what we know of our own knowledge of his present Excellency since that time it was purely at the Instance p. 275 and averment of his said Excellency Lionel Copley Esq' & Mr Blakiston who was the only person with whom he permitted any private Conference or imparted Secrets to; both of whom did assure us that they had great Reason to suspect such things as are mentioned in the first part of that Letter, & said, that they had several Informations & should in some time get proof of such practices in his said Excellency Frances

Liber K. Nicholson Esq' as are there mentioned & thereupon the Clerk havs by Order as we Conceive prepared a Letter for us to sign it was tendered to us & we desired to sign it which we did but never after heard any proof of those Allegations nor any thing more of them but since that upon better acquaintance & knowledge of his Exclley Gov' Nicholson we find the direct Contrary principles in him to what was then asserted that he is so far from disaffecting the then & present constitution of Government that it hath been his greatest Care & Study to preserve & improve the same by the best measures & means he can And as to Countenancing Papists &ca we find nothing in him tending that way unless it be his Administring Iustice to them where it is due without distinguishing one Sect from another but on the Contrary our Iournals of Assembly & all other Records make appear & we are assured that none has ever done more by his perswasions Example & large Gifts to propagate the Protestant Religion in this province than he

This we thought our selves obliged in Iustice to say to your p. 276 Lordships to vindicate the honour of his Excellency & wipe of the aforesaid Reflections in a manner imposed on

To the right Honble

the Lords of the Coun

cil for the Committee of
trade & foreign Plantations

Your Lordships most humble Servts Nich Greenberry Thos Tench

Iohn Courts

Tho Brooke

The foregoing Letter is an Answer in Relation to a Letter by them & Coll° Nehemiah Blakiston dec'd writ & sent to Mr Peter Paggen Merchant in London as appears in folio 70 of this Book the which by an Ord' of his Exclley of the 4th of Iune Anno 1697 is entered in this place by

Hen Denton Cl Council

INDEX TO NAMES OF PERSONS AND PLACES.