Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1636-1647. 175

Communicacon with any pson person of the province, This
proclamacon to be in force in every hundred imediatly after the
publishing hereof in the hundred and to continue in force for
one Month from the date of it, and all men after publication
to take notice of it and observe it in every point Soe far as it
Shall concern them upon pain of death or Such other Censures
as the Offence Shall deserve in the Judgm^t of a Martiall
Court, assuring all persons that I intend to take a very Strict
account of all Offences to the Contrary thereof Given at S^t
Inego's ffort this 16^th January 1646.

Renewed for one Month more 12^th ffebr 1646, especially pro-
hibiting export Cattle or Corne

18 The Charge of his Lordps Attorney ag^t Thomas Stur-
man John Sturman ffrancis Gray John Hamton
Robert Smith Tho: Yewell

1 That Since they were lately pardoned by two Several
pardons one after another of the crimes of Rebellion and Sedi-
tion, they the Said Delinquents, or Some one or more of them
have Secretly fled out of the Province by night, & made resort
and assembled themselves together at the house of one John
Mottram, and with others of Checkacoan notorious enemies to
the Lord Propriary and his governm^t here established and on
the thirteenth ffourteenth ffifteenth and Sixteenth days of this
Instant Month of January or Some one or more of them, have
at the place, and with the enemies of the Province aforesaid,
used divers Speeches and practises and hatched & Complotted

Liber B.

p. 208

divers Machinations and Conspiraces ag^t the person of Leonard
Calvert Esq now Gov^r of the Province and for the entring into
the Province by force as enemies and robbers to destroy the
Inhabitants and the Cattle, and to burn & fire the Country
afore them, and all the rest of the S^d delinquents have been
privy and accessary (afore) to Such Speeches practises and
dessignes.
2. That In further pursuance and execution of the Said
Rebellions and hostile dessigns, That they the S^d delinquents
or Some one or more of them, have used Speeches and news
at their returning into the Province on the 17 Jan: Last, tending
to the publishing and advanceing of another right and title to
the Dominion and propriety of this Province then the right and
title of the Lord Baltemore, viz^t publishing and proclaiming in
triumphing Manner, that one Cap^t Wyatt was comeing in with
Comission from the parliam^t for the Governm^t of this Province,
and that divers Ships were in the bay to that end, as likewise

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