288 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1681-85.

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be very much to the Prejudice of his Ma^ties concernes and the
Discouragement of the Collectors and other officers of his
Ma^tys Customes in those parts if they should upon such
Tearmes be removed or dismissed, and therefore doe pray
that the said Rousby may be restored to his Charge &c:
Now as the aforesaid affidavit of the s^d Vincent Low, the said
Rousby doth protest that the same is false, and he himself hath
made affid^t before one of the Judges of the Kings bench ready
to be produced that he never spoke the words charged by the
s^d Low and he does verily beleive that if ever the said Lowes
affid^t was sworne to before his Lopp as is pretended, it was
when the s^d Low was drunck, which was a thing very frequent
with him, as can be proved. And it is remarkable that this
affid^t is said to be sworne the 6^th of June last and yett alleages
the words to be spoake some time in Aprill before, but why
the said Low did not sweare sooner, and before the s^d Rousby
came out of the Country which was the 11^th of May last, or
why his Lop the Lord Baltemore would not vouchsafe to lett
the s^d Rousby know any thing before his coming away of the
intended accusation against him, or ever questioned him for
any thing therein, or why his Lopp having in his said Letters
of Complaint charged the said Rousby with speaking treason-
able words on board the Lond^o ships, yet doth not in any one
of them set downe either shipps name, Ma^rs name or the words
spoken, nor offers any manner of Proofe, may require some
consideration.
And as to the matter concerning M^r Badcock late Comp-
troll^r in Maryland, his Lopp (after the said Rousby came away)
did obstruct and oppose him in the due Execution of his place
to the damage of his Ma^ties Interest at least 2000^l which is not
only fully evident, by Badcock's Letters to the Com^rs of the
Customes written immediately before his death, but the oppo-
sicon is sufficiently acknowledged by his Lopp own Letters to
the Com^rs of the Customes of the 7^th & 27^th of June aforesaid,
wherein hee desires the said Badcock may be turned out, and
one M^r Nicholas Sewell (his Ladyes son) put in his place, which
said Letters of M^r Badcocks and my Lords have since viz^t the
13^th of December instant been taken into consideracon by the
Right hon^ble the Committee for Forreign Plantations, who have
ordered a Letter to be writt to my Lord Baltemore fully to
admonich his Lordshipp in the Case &c:

To the Right Hono^ble the Commission^rs of his
Majesties Customes.

May it please yo^r Honours,
In obedience to your Commaunde of the 25^th Instant requir-
ing my answere to a Letter from my Lord Baltemore of the