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and sayth as followeth that one Richard Windall Marryner
Commander of the Shipp the Liverpoole Merchant arriveing
in this Province of Maryland in St Georges River in St Maryes
County about the beginning of March in the year of our Lord
one thousand six hundred seaventy and seaven Christopher
Rousby Esqre his Majesties Collector in the said Province
having caused the said shipp to be seized, for breach of an Act
of Parliament made at a Parliament begunn at Westminster
the Eight day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand
six hundred sixty and one in the thirteenth yeare of the raigne
of our most gracious Soveraigne Lord Charles by the Grace
of God, of England, Scotland France and Ireland King De-
fender of the Faith &c: and there continued till the nineteenth
day of May in the fourteenth yeare of his Majesties said
Raigne and thence prorogued to the eighteenth of February
then next following; and there continued to the twenty
seaventh of July in the fifteenth yeare of his Majesties Raigne
and thence prorogued to the sixteenth of May then next fol-
lowing: Intituled an Act for the encouragement of Trade, The
said Christopher and Richard Windall or one or both of them
became humble suitors to the honoble Thomas Notley Esqre then
Chief Governor of the said Province under the Right Honoble
Charles Absolute Lord and Proptr thereof to call a speciall
Court to trye whether the said Richard Windall had brooke the
said Act of Parliament yea or noe, and for the Acquittall or
condemnations of the said Shipp. And thereupon the said
Thomas Notley did cause a commission to issue out of the
high Court of Chancery of the said Province under the Great
Seale thereof directed to this Deponent, Walter Hall John
Darnall and Garret Vansweringen Gen: bearing date the four-
teenth day of March in the said yeare of our Lord one thousand
six hundred seaventy and seaven; whereby wee or any three
of us (whereof this Deponent to be one) were assigned Justices
to enquire by the oaths of such and soe many good and lawfull
men of the said Province and by such other wayes and meanes
by which the truth of the matter might more plainly appeare
and to us should seem best, of all breaches of any Act or Acts
of Parliament relateing to Navigations or Trade by whom-
soever and whensoever done perpetrated or committed within
the said Province, when, how and in what manner and of all
other Articles and circumstances of the premisses or any of
them any manner of way touching or concerning and the same
for that time to heare and determine, according to the Laws
and Customs of the Kingdom of England and of the said
Province And therefore Wee were commanded that on the
eighteenth day of the said month of March at the Court
House at the Citty of St Maryes, wee or any three of us as
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