Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1681-85. 313

Justices psent: Coll: Thomas Taillor
Coll: W^m Stevens
Cap^t William Digges.

Set the Prisoner at the Barr—Thou art here indicted by the
name of Josias Fendall late of Charles County Gent: for that
thou not having the fear of God in thy heart nor weighing thy
due obedience to the R^t hon^ble the Lord Prop^ry but seduced by
the instigation of the Divell maliciously devising, contriving
and attempting with force to raise a mutiny and sedition against
the person of the said Prop^ry the 26^th day of March in the sixth
year of the Dominion of the said Lord Prop^ry &c: Annoq Dni
1681: at Pickajawaxen in Charles County and at severall other
times and places within the said County within the year afore-
said of thy own mutinous and seditious mind and imagination
maliciously expressly and advisedly in the presence and hearing
of diverse good people of this Province these false scandalous
mutinous and seditious english words following of and con-
cerning the said Lord Prop^ry didst say, speak, utter publish and
rehearse (that is to say) that my Lord Prop^ry (meaning the R^t
hon^ble the Lord Prop^ry of this Province) was Traytor and that
you (meaning you the said Josias Fendall) could prove it, that
people (the good people of this Province meaning) were fooles
if they (meaning the said people) paid any Leavyes that you
(you the said Josias again meaning) would bear them (the said
people again meaning) out, if they did not and that it was no
Treason that you (you the said Josias again meaning) hoped
within few years to have more hon^r in the Country (meaning
this Province then ever you (you the said Fendall meaning)
had, that the people (meaning the said good people of this
Province) might now say anything for it was no Treason: and
that you the said Josias Fendall of your further malice being
instigated as aforesaid and yet still further contriving and
attempting with force to raise a mutiny and sedition against
the person of the said Lord Prop^r the 11^th day of May in the
sixth year of the Dominion of the said Lord Prop^ry &c: Annoq
Dni 1681 at Pickajawaxen aforesaid in Charles County afore-
said and divers other daies and times between the said 11i^th day
of May aforesaid and the 4^th day of June then next following
as well at Pickajawaxen aforesaid as elsewhere in Charles
County aforesaid having communication with severall good
people of this Province of and concerning the murder of
severall persons, then lately by certain supposed Indians un-
known murdered at or neer a certain place called point look
out in S^t Michaels hundred in S^t Maries County in the Province
aforesaid of your own mutinous and seditious mind and imagi-
nation falsly maliciously advisidly expressly in the presence
and hearing of divers good people of this Province these other

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