Assembly Proceedings, April — May 1666. 71

After the reading of this Paper. M^r Speaker Ordered Will^m
Caluert Esq^r the Messenger to the Vpper howse, & to signify
to the Leiu^t Grall, That the time according to th^t order
request was, th^t hee would please to appoynt
who returnes, Certifying the spe Leiu^t Grails pleasure
by a messenger sently to M^r Speakers request
M^r Baker Brooke came f howse would please to haue
confer row morning Nine a Clock
And M^r Speaker the Leiu^t Grall
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Rob^t Slye for into
The heads of the Indian
M^r Speaker appoynted Will^m Caluert Esqr to
Vpper howse, requesting them to signify what is by certaine
words in those proposalls intended (viz^t) Black & Red signe.
w^ch this howse doth not well understand. And th^t they would
please eyther to explaine the same by himselfe, or by a Mes-
senger from their owne howse.
Who returning sayth That the Vpper howse will satisfy
this howse according as is requested by their owne Messenger,
& would then returne the heads of the proposalls from their
howse, hither againe, w^ch all certifying M^r Speaker that cer-
taine words in those proposalls (as deliuered by the Jnterpreto^r)
themselues are not well knowne, what is intended by them,
neyther doe they well understand them, 'till further conference
w^th the Jnterpreto^r & Jndians.

Then was read the following Petⁿ
To the hon^ble the Gou^r & howse of Assembly in Maryland.
The humble of Thomas Allcock. Sheweth

L. H.

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Petⁿ hath had his Wife & Child murthered by of
August Ano 1665, & being yett unre- pretence yo^r Pet^r
knowes not that the Murderers are exequuted the
Murderers of Mrs Agatha murdered the day before.
And th^t the were the sixteene doags th^t pretend
strange Jndians uppon the to haue recouered of
yo^r Pet^rs wife to shew themselues to themselues
w^ch our & haue allso recea- English. Since
th^t Blood cryeth to heauen for uengeance, yo^r Pet^r hereby
throweth himselfe, together w^th the blood of his murdered
wife & child att yo^r feete. Crauing Justice. w^ch Blood hee
humbly beggs of the Just Judge of heauen & earth neuer to
remoue from yo^r soules, nor the soules of yo^r Childrens Child-
ren 'till it bee satisfyed

Tho: H Allcock's marke

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