136 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1667-75.

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taxes in his and own creatures pokket as principally may appear
out of the leavy laest year, when hee overcharged the Country
with about 190 others say 20.0000^lbs of tob: and perswaded
afterward the Assembly men, not to call him to an account for
it, but to give it him. So did hee likewise in the former Indian
Wiccomisso Warr, when they tooke all the plunder from the
poor souldiers and sent the Indian prisoners to Barbados for
Negros, but forced the poore inhabitants to bear and pay all
the charges.
That he hath defrauded the Country of severall thousands
of pounds of tobacco which was leavied and Hee intrusted to
provide a magazyn for the Country's defence, and uppon divers
occasions against the Indians, little or nothing came forth, safe
a fewe in the laest Indian siege. And well remembred the
exployet of the wherekill in Delewar Bay. when the inhabitants
powder and shot, guns, pistolls, shoes stokkins and cloaths
from the peoples fetes pressed off, provision taken by force
and vyolence, contrary to the libberties and priviledges of the
King's Maj^ty's free born Subjects off England.
That Hee did press 500 men, by Cap^t Howelt from the head
of the Bay, to goe in the very winter a hundred and 40. or 50.

miles downe to the whorekill A^o 73 to burn a few poore in

habitants out off all their houses, corn and every thing els they
hath, leaving poore weemen with child naked, to the mercy of
a desperat hard winter when no botes nor reliefe could com
to them, divers perished in that very misery: w^ch popish cruelty
can not bee out faced that it was then in warr time and in the
dutch possessions againe, for it was done after they hath sub-
mitted themselves to Baltemore againe and entertained the
souldiers freely, without any of the least resistance, uppon
promis that no harm should happen to them, but wee leave
that to his Royall Highnis, to call Baltemore to an Account for
the ruyn of that whole Country, and the loss of many men's
lives, for when thy hath done that misschief thy left the place
againe, and so som two years before one Jones was commis-
sionated to plunder the poore people there, and it is notice to
be taken, that if God hath not then send peace betweene the
two Nations, it was determined by the Dutch, with fregats by
water and souldiers by land to have ruyanated the king's
subjects in Maryland for it: Now this tyranny was after
chalked over with an Assembly and made the Country for that
very pleasur pay 50. or 60.000 pounds of tobacco, when hee
might have it done from Chaptank or Sumerset County, with
10. or 12. men and not above 2 or 3000^lbs tob: charges Thus
and in many other concernments are the King's Maj^s Subjects
continually more and more oppressed: contrary to the Lord
Proprietarys and their Tennants in England, also contrary to