Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1681-85. 331

following then and there did speak utter publish and rehearse
(that is to say) what deuill need you (the said Mackensey
meaning) trouble yourselfe with land there is never a Papist in

Maryland will have a foote of Land within this foure months
and that the Sinique Indians would doe you (the said Macken-
sey meaning) noe good for he (the said John Coode meaning)
had tenn thousand men at command when he (the same John
Coode meaning) pleased and that he (the said John Coode
likewise meaning) could make it high water (meaning a dis-
turbance in the Province) when he (the same John Coode
meaning) pleased and that the said John Coode of his further
malicious Contriuance Practice and attempts as aforesaid the
tenth day of July in the yeare aforesaid having communication
with one Samuel Dobson of the same County Planter of and
concerning the Murder of one Thomas Potter and other persons
then lately by supposed Indians unknown murdered at or neer
a certaine place called Point lookout in the said County of s⁴
Maryes in the Province aforesaid he the same Samuel Dobson
alledging that the said Potter and his Companions were
murdered as he the said Samuel Dobson then thought by
Indians the said John Coode did thereupon of his further
Malice mutinously and seditiously reply then and there these
other mutinous and seditious English words following in the
hearing of diuers good people of this Province and the same
did falsely and maliciously speak utter publish and ascert (that
is to say) noe they were (the said Potter and his. Companions
meaning) not murdered by Indians but were murdered by
Christians to the great disturbance of the Peace &c: and
against the form of the act of Assembly in this case made and
prouided.
On the Backside of the afoegoeing Present-
ment was by the Grand Inquest Endorsed
Billa Vera.
Vpon which Presentment the aforesaid John Coode was In-
dicted upon his Indictment arraigned and upon his Arraign-
ment Pleaded Not Guilty and for his Tryall putt himselfe upon
God and the Country and Thomas Burford Attorney Generall
for the said Lord Prop^ry Likewise therefore it is commanded
the Sheriff of s^t Maryes County that he cause to come here
twelve &c^a Now here at this Day to witt the sixteenth Day of
November in the sixth yeare of the Dominion of the R^t honn^ble
Charles Lord Baltemore &c: Anno Dom: 1681. Came the said
Thomas Burford Attorney Generall for the said Lord Prop^ry
and the said John Coode was sett to the Barr and the Jurors
impannelled being called likewise came (to witt) Philip Lynes
Anthony Dawson, John Richardson William Hill, John Evans
William Steeuens William Mishew William Smith Rhoderick

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