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Ad 29. Articulum dicit et deponit. That the said Evelin did
goe to Maryland soone after the departure of the said Clai-
borne, and did there (as this deponent hath heard the Gov-
ernor speake and persuade the said Governor of Maryland to
come with armed men and take possession of the said Planta-
tion and Hand, and the said Evelin tould this deponent that he
would never leave till he had settled a government on the said
Hand, and that he this deponent hath heard the said Governor
of Maryland say that he had not soe come to possesse the said
Ile of Kent unlesse the said Evelin had much urged and per-
suaded him thereunto, untill newes had come out of England
concerning Capt: Claiborne.
Ad 30. Articulum dicit et deponit That the said Evelin in
or about the Months of November after the premises 1637. did
come up to the said Plantation from Maryland and brought a
Comission under the Colony seale of Maryland, by vertue
whereof the said Evelin was made Commander of the said Ile
of Kent, and by vertue of his said Commission did summon
the Inhabitants and Freemen upon the said Iland to appeare
before him att the Fort, and the said Evelin did there (in theire
presence) command the Patent of Maryland then brought upp
with him by M^r Zachary Mattersedds of Maryland, to be read,
although the said Freemen did not consent therto, and that
att the same time it was demanded of the said Evelin by M^r
John Butler, whether he were an Agent for the said Clobery
and Company, or for the Marylanders, and that the said Evelin
answered he was for both, and that the said Evelin further
said that whereas he himselfe had lately spoken there against
the Patent of Maryland and that the said Claiborne's Commis-
sion was firme and good against the same, and that the Mary-
landers had nothing to doe with the Ile of Kent, Now he the
said Evelin was better informed for he had seene the Governor
of Maryland's Patent, and that he was formerly mistaken and
overseene as he perceived now they were, but he him selfe
now understood it better.
Ad 31. Articulum dicit et deponit That the said Evelin then
adjuged the Inhabitants and Freemen and all the servants that
they should take heed what they did in opposing the said
Governor of Maryland, saying further that it would be better
to live under the Government of Maryland then under the
Government of Virginia, for the Lord Baltamore had the
Patent and the Iland was his, and that it would be more bene-
ficiall for them and better for the Iland for they might carry
theire commodities and theire Tobacco and Pipestaves into
what Country they would which the Virginians could not, and
that the said Evelin persuaded them thereunto by many other
priviledges and did instance in many particulers wherein the

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