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

P. R. O.

Colonial
Papers.

Lloyd Vincent Mansfield Henry Exon John Paler who being
elected Cryed and sworne to say the truth in the Premisses
upon theire Oaths doe say that the said John Coode is not
guilty of the Crimes whereof he stands indicted And then the
Chancellor said to the said John Coode these words follow-
ing—Cap^tn Coode your Country hath quitted you and now lett
me give you some aduice I would have you for the future to
loue your quiet quiet better then your Jest The words spoken
to Mackensey it seemed were spoken at a feast when you
were all well heated and you loue to amaze the Ignorant and
make sport with your witt at most times and therefore tis noe
wonder at that time you did not well weigh the circumstances
of time and other mens actings then that gaue the Gouverment
just cause to suspect you were of the same tribe with Fendall
especially when you were obserued then to vizit one another
and make vizits to others Let me tell you mens tongues
oftener sett theire feete to work then theire hands doe and
therefore keepe a Guard upon your Tongue to which Cap^tn
Coode replyed I humbly thank you for your aduice and shall
follow it for I confess Circumstances considered the Govern-
ment had just cause to commit me though my meeting with
Cap^t Fendall was meerly accidentall when we went over to
Collonell Spencers after which he deliuered a letter to the
Chancellor from Collonell Spencer—Whereupon it is ordered
by the Court here that the said John Coode giue security for
his good abearance and appearance at the next Prouinciall
Court.
On which said sixteenth Day of Nouember aforesaid came
the said John Coode with Nehemiah Blackiston of s^t Maryes
County his Surety and the said John Coode acknowledged
himselfe to owe unto his said Lordspp the Lord Prop^ry of this
Prouince the summe of one hundred pounds sterling and the
said Nehemiah Blackiston the summe of fifty pounds sterling
to be leauyed of and upon the goods Chattells Lands and
Tenements of each of them respectiuely to his said Lordshipps
use, if the said John Coode shall not make his personall ap-
pearance at the next provinciall Court to be held at the Citty
of S^t Maryes the Eight and twentieth day of February next
and in the mean time be of good abearance as well towards
his said Lordspp the said Prop^ry as to all other the good People
of this his Lordspps Province.

Mary-land ss.
The Jurors for the Right honn^ble the Lord Prop^ry of this
Province doe present that George Godfrey late of Charles
County in the Province aforesaid Planter and other Rebells
to the said Lord Prop^ry &c: the seaventeenth day of July in the