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

P. R. O.
Colonial
Papers.

Court—We may hear what he can say but he cannot be
sworne against the Lord Prop^ry
Rich: Beamont—I did hear Boyden tell Cap^t Fendall that
if he had occasion for forty or fifty men he could help him to
them in a daies tyme to the best of my Remembrance it is about
3 years since but cannot exactly say.
Court.—For what occasion did Boyden make Cap^t Boyden
Fendall that Tender ?
Bea:—I cannot say.
Chanc:—Have you any other Evidence ?
Fend"—Not as to Boyden.
Chanc:—Have you any other Evidence as to the maine
matter in hand.
Fend"—Yes here is Hugh Gardiner and his Wife
Izabell Bright—Cap^t Fendall if you call any Witnesses
against me call an honest Woman and not one that have been
your Whore.
Court.—Hugh Gardiner what can you say?
Hugh Gard:—John Bright and his Wife living upon the
same plantation with me and having been over at Notley Hall
with my Lord about some business between them and Cap^t
Fendall as they returned put into my house I asked them what
they had done Brights Wife fell outragiously railling against
Fendall and said he was a Rogue and they would way lay him
and pistol him, and saies John Bright tis no matter if they did
for my Lord would not care how soon he were dispatched out
of the way Why said I if a man killed a Negro he will be
hanged, Yea saies John Bright My Lord will sooner hang a
man for killing a Negro or an Indian than for killing Captain
Fendall When the report was that the Papists and Indians
were Confederates together to destroy the Protestants my
Wife was very fearfull and at her importunities I requested
Cap^t Fendall to let us come to his house telling my Wife was
afraid to live where she did for the reasons aforesaid To
which Cap^t Fendall replied oh never fear any such thing never
think that my Lord being a wise and discreet man and a man
of judgment will ever joyn with the heathen to cutt off the
Christians or words to the same effect.
Gardiner's Wife—John Bright and his Wife when they came
from Notley Hall called in at our house where my husband
having asked them what news Izbelle fell a railing at Cap^t

Fendall calling him knave and Rogue and Mad^m Fendall salt
whore and salt Bitch and if ever they could meet conveniently
with the Cap^t they would way lay him and destroy him both
my husband and I told said Izabelle my Lord would be very
glad Fendall was taken away for he was an ill man and they
should not be called in question if they killed him.