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membrance) in or about the Months of November or December,
1636, and that he the said Evelin did then speak severall times
against the pretended right of the Marylanders, to the said
trade and Plantation, and did speake against the Governor of
Marylands Grandfather, saying he was but a Grasier, and is
Mr Colvert his sonne and the now Governor of Maryland, such
a fellow now, and that he the said Governor was a very Dunce
and Blocked when he went to schoole, and is he come to this
already, And that the said Claiborne's Commission from the
king and the king's letter in Confirmation thereof was firme and
strong against the said Maryland Patent, and further deposeth
not.
Ad 21. Dicit et deponit, That in or about February 1636:
one John Goodfellow did bring upp in a Pinnace from the
shipp the Elizabeth and Sara a supplie of servants and goods,
which goods and servants the said Evelin, then said were con-
signed, to him the said Evelin, by the said Clobery and Mur-
head, And that the said Evelin did in the presence and hearing
of this deponent give directions for the landing of the said
goods and servants on the said Plantation To which the said
Claiborne (for ought that this deponent could see) did not shew
any dislike and did advize and assist him the said Evelin in the
imploiment of the said servants and goods, and that the said
Evelin soone after the said goods and servants soe landed on
the said Plantation, tooke certaine peeces of the said Trading
Cloath and Axes into the Pinnace Elizabeth and did goe a
trading into Patomeck River (as this deponent beleiveth) But
how many peeces of Cloath and how many Axes the said
Evelin did then take with him, and whether he hath given any
Account thereof, this deponent knoweth not.
Ad 22. Articulum Dicit et deponit That the said Clayborne
in or about May 1637 was in preparation to come for England,
and did in the hearing and presence of this deponent and
divers freemen & servauntes assembled on the said Plantation
make offer unto the said Evelin that if he the said Evelin would
give the said Claiborne for the use of the said Cloberrie and
Company a bond of £3000 not to sell or make away with the
said Plantation and Ile of Kent unto the Marielanders, or any
other, and that he the said Evelin would not remove or carrie
away any of the servants from the said Iland that then he the said
Claiborne would deliver and assigne over unto him the said
Evelin all the goods servants and whatsoever else belonged to
the said Cloberrie and Company in the said Joyntstocke accord-
ing to an Inventorie thereof made and prepared by the said
Claiborne and the said Evelin, of which each of them had a
copie But the said Evelin then and there denyed and refused
to give anie such bond, Upon whose refusall of the said Evelins
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