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need thereof although (as this deponent beleeveth) he might
easilie have bought Corne of the Indians, but did for the most
parte imploy himselfe as aforesaid in persuading the Inhabit-
ants to render the possession of the said Hand to the Governor
of Maryland, and in setling division and discontent amongst
the people concerning the same, and in going oftentimes to
Maryland, and did as this deponent hath heard the said Gov-
ernor of Maryland say persauded the Marylanders to come
thither, and that the said Governor of Maryland by the said
Evelin's persuasions did come with forty armed men in the
night, being as this deponent hath heard and verely beleeveth,
ledd by the said Evelin and landed upon the said Hand and tooke
possession thereof and tooke the said John Butler and Thomas
Smith prisoners and carried them to Maryland, where the said
Thomas Smith was condempned, and that the said Governor
of Maryland hath since againe come upon the said Hand and
Plantation of Kent, with fifty armed men or thereabouts, and
hath wholly reduced the said Hand and the Inhabitants under
the Government of Maryland, and hath hanged Edward
Beckler and Thomas Smith, as Rebells, and hath confiscated
all the estate of the said Clobery and Company and hath dis-
posed and carried away all the servants of the said Joint stocks
and other goods left by the said Evelin to the said Lugar and
Walker And the said Governor of Maryland did alsoe (to the
Lord Baltamore his use) seize and confiscate all the particuler
estate of the said Claiborne, then being upon the said Ile of
Kent consisting of Tobacco, Neate, Cattle, servants, tooles, and
other goods, which this deponent beleeveth to be of a good
valew, but is not able certainely to say how much they were
worth, but thinketh that the some of the Tobacco soe confis-
cated and received by the said Governor of Maryland was
three score or at least fifty thousand weight, and that all the
said Tobacco was worth there att the least 13ds per pound
And for the neate Cattle of the said Claiborne, soe confiscated
seized and taken by the said Governor of Maryland, this
deponent beleeveth they were to the number of two hundred
or there about or would by this time have increased upon the
said Hand to the said number, being Cowes heifers, Oxen,
Steares, Bulls and Calves which said Cattle were then and are
now there worth one with another seaven or eight pounds a
head being of a very good kind of Cattle better then usually
are in Virginia And this deponent knoweth that the said
Governor tooke divers servants and imploied them, and dis-
posed of theire times of service, who did belong to the said
Claborne, the names of which servants this deponent well
remembereth not, saveing that he remembereth that Thomas
Youall, Robert Cooper, Robert Lake, John Glantam, John
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