308 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1692-1694.

Liber K.

offering them four or five of his Company
should come on board provided they came thither with

no other Design than to search as a Collector or Comp-
troler ought to doe; Your Petitioner having left with the
Persons on board a Pass or Permit given by One of Your
Majestys Collectors in Virginia which the said Payne might
have seen, the same being offered him, but he resolving to
take and seize the said Vessel, Guns were fired immediately
on both sides, and the said Pain was killed, and two of the
Persons on board the Vessel very dangerously wounded;
sometime after this the Persons belonging to Your Petitioners
Vessel were brought to a Tryal, and Three of them con-
demned, and (as Your Pet^r is informed) One of the three by
Name Iohn Woodcock is executed, and Execution of the Other
Two only deferred until Your Majesty's Pleasure shall be
known therein; the Grand Jury there having found the Bill
against Your Petitioner notwithstanding he was at the time of
the said Action in his Bed at his own Plantation, as M^r John
Coode and M^r Kenelm Cheseldyne Agents from the Conven-

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tion in Maryland can testify if thereunto required by Your
Majesty
Your Petitioner therefore most humbly prayeth your Majesty
that since there has been already One Person executed for the
Death of the said Paine Your Majesty will extend your Grace
and Mercy to the Other Two, and that likewise since the heats
and Differences in Maryland are grown to that height now
that your Petitioner without Your Majestys Especial Grace
and Protection cannot hope to return and live peaceably with
his Wife and Children, who are daily great Sufferers by Your
Petitioners Absence from them & his Estate, that therefore
Your Majesty would be graciously pleased to give your Pro-
tect" to Your Petitioner that so he may be assured to live
quietly with his Wife and Family there
And Your Pet^r as in Duty bound shall
ever pray &c
A true Copy
signed William Blathwayt

At the Court at Whitehall the 19^th of
November 1691

Present
The Kings Most Excellent Majesty in Council

Upon reading the Petition of Nicholas Sewall, seting forth
that being necessitated to return from Virginia to his own
Plantation in Maryland, One M^r John Paine Comptroller under
his late Maj^ty King James did on the third of Ianuary 1689