334 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1681—85.

P. R. O.

Colonial
Papers.

truly to try and true deliverance to make between the said
Lord Prop^ry and the said George Godfrey then prisoner at the
Barr and have heard what the Evidences could say in the
Premises upon theire oaths doe say that the said George God-
frey is guilty of speaking many mutinous and seditious words
and striueing as much as in him lay to raise a mutinous Com-
pany to fetch Cap^t Fendall out of prison and if the Court find
him guilty of the Breach of the Act of Assembly whereof he
stands Indicted they find him guilty or else not.
Whereupon Judgment is respited untill the Court aduise
themselves of and upon the Pemisses.
Afterwards to witt the fifteenth day of Nouember in the
yeare aforesaid the said George Godfrey being againe brought
to the Barr It is the Judgment of the Court here that the said
George Godfrey is guilty of the Breach of the Act of Assembly
whereof he stands indicted therefore it is considered that the
said George Godfrey be hanged by the neck untill he be dead
Philip Calvert.

About a week after the said Godfrey was condemned I gave
him his pardon for life and and remaines in Prison the re-
mainder of his days.
C. Baltemore.

The said Godfrey was a Justice of Peace for Charles County
and Lieut: of a Troope of horse and actually in the service and
pay of the Province when he was designeing to fetch Josias

Fendall out of the hands of
C. Baltemore.

22 Janu^y 1681.

This is the Tryall of Cap^t J^no Coode and also of George
Godfrey taken from the Records as things of this nature are
usually entred. Baltemore.

M^r W^m Blathwait

Tryall of Coode and Godfrey
in Maryland
Rec^d the 15^th Aprill 1682.

The Affidavits of M^r Rob^t Carvile and
of M^r Vansweringen about the pro-
ceedings and condemnation of the
Shipp Liver Pool Merchant.

Robert Carvile of S^t Maryes County in the Province of
Maryland in America being aged six and fourty years or there-
abouts being duely sworne upon the Holy Evangelists deposeth