278 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1676-81.

P. R. O.

Colonial
Papers.
B. B.

and that none would take notice of it I humbly subscribe
myselfe
Your Hon^r most humble and
faythfull Servant
Nich: Badcock.
Patuxen 26 May. 1681.

For the Counsell
Read 10 Dec 1681

M^r Badcock surveyor
to the commissioners of customes Maryland.

p. 21

Deposition of M^r Vincent Lowe against Christopher Rousby.
6^th June 1681.

Some day in April last past I went to M^r Christopher
Rousby's house and finding him att home we fell into some
discourse of the affaires in old England, and att that time the
said Christopher Rousby shew'd unto me severall news books,
which he had lately received from thence, and after I had
perused some of them I told the said Rousby, I perceived that
the King of England did in all his speeches much insist upon
this point; that the succession of the Crowne should continue
in the right Line, and that the King stuck very close to his
brother the Duke of Yorke, and the said Rousby made answer,
and said so he did, and then I spoke further to the said Rousby,
that his Majesty could do no less than take the Duke of Yorke's
part, being his Brother, and that nature did oblige him to it,
and then, the said Christopher Rousby clapt his hand upon his
breast, and said it was not nature that caused it, but he beleived
that the King was of the same opinione in his heart in point of
perswasion that the Duke of Yorke was of. And after this
the said Rousby and I were discourseing touching the bill that
were prefer'd in the House of Parliament in England to disable
the Duke of Yorke to inheritt the Emperiall Crowne of Eng-
land and I told the said Rousby I heard my Lord of Halifax
was much against it, and then the said Rousby made me
answer, that greate men were greate knaves and turne Coates,
and begun to pisse backwards.
Sworne to by M^r Vincent Lowe this 6^th of June 1681. before
me
C. Baltemore.

p. 20

Letter from the L^d Baltemore to the Earl of Anglesey.

7^th June 1681.
My Noble good Lord,
I have already presumed to write twice to your Lordship in
relation to one Christopher Rousby, who (I desired) might be