6    Proceethngs of the Council of Maryland, 1698.

         Lib. X.  victed of such their offences & misdemrs it is reasonably hoped

                  the said Comotions and disturbances are pretty well allayed

          p. 154  if not further pursued by the said Iohn Cood so fled as afore

                  said & who now by a Bill found by the Grand Iury of the

                  Province at the last Provincial Court stands indicted for

                  endeavouring as much as in him lay to excite & stir up his

                  majestys liege people within this province to rebel against

                  his Majestys Govr & Govt by law established I do therefore

                  in his Majestys name by & with the advice & Consent of the

                  honble his Majestys Council within this province publish

                  declare give notice to & Command all his Majstys good &

                  Loving subjects within this province that they do for the

                  future forbear to Associate converse with harbour Entertain

                  or hold any Correspondence whatsoever with the said John

                  Cood either by writing or otherwise but that they & every of

                  them do endeavour to apprehend & Secure the said John

                  Cood when ever he shall attempt to Come within this

                  Province as they will answer the Contrary at their peril

                   And whereas Mr Philip Clark of St Marys County late

                  one of the Attorneys of the provincial Court & one of the

                  Attorneys in St Marys County hath again so ill behaved

                  himself that for his just deserts he hath rendred himself

                  uncapable of practising as an Attorney in any of the said

                  Courts & altogether unservicable to his Clients yet his

                  Majestys Iustices of the provincial Court Considering that

                  several persons depended upon the said Clark to manage

                  their affairs to him Committed expecting that he might have

                  been in better Circumstances which proving otherwise might

                  be a great Suprizal & Detrimt to them have Continued the

                  several actions wherein he was Concerned until the next Pro

          p. 155  vincial Court which is to be held God willing the 2d Tuesday

                  in Novr next against which time it will be for the Interest of

                  such persons to employ some other Attorneys to manage their

                  Concerns depending in the said Court

                    And I do further in his Majestys name strictly Charge &

                  Command the several Sheriffs of this Prove that they publish

                  this my Proclamation in all Churches Chappels Court houses

                  & other publick places of meeting within their several Coun

                  ties & also the 2 Addresses from his Majestys Iustices of the

                  Provincial Court & the Gentlemen who served as Grand

                  Iurors in the said Provl Court according to which all persons

                  are to Conform themselves thereto at their perils Given at

                  the town & Port of Annapolis under the great Seal of this

                  province this 14th day of September in the tenth year of the

                  reign of our Sovereign Lord King William the third &ca

                  Anno Dom 1698 Fra Nicholson

                             God save the King