Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1681-85. 339

tions and that at the arrivall of the said shipp the George the
said John Addison and partners would produce the said
Cocquetts and that therefore the said two Trusses and h^dd of
Brandy nor any the goods mentioned in the Cocquetts dd in
by the said Richard Windall at tyme of his'Entry of the said
shipp Liverpool Merc^t ought not to bee forfeited. The said
Court did adjudge that neither the said goods mentioned in
the Cocquetts that were delivered in by the said Richard Win-
dall at the tyme of the entry of the said shipp nor the said other
goods taken out of the said shipp the George, if Cocquetts
could at the arrivall of the said shipp the George or otherwise
bee produced, should bee forfeited, and it was the true intent
and meaning of this Deponent and of the other Justices (as
this Deponent beleives) not to condemne the said goods taken
out of the George and putt on board the said Liverpool Mer-
chant, that Cocquetts could bee produced for the same as was
alleadged. And in that perticular the said Nicholas Painter
the Clarke attending the said Court, did not in penning the
Judgement of the said Court, sufficiently expresse and set forth
the meaning of the said Court, and this Deponent further sayth
that presently after this Deponent had delivered the Judgement
of the said Court in the precence of us the Court did rise and
the Comission to us granted as wee conceived was determined
And upon the same day the said Thomas Notley Esq^re Cheife
Governor as aforesaid did by his Warrant under his hand
authorize and impower Cap^t Gerrard Sly Cap^t Robert Cres-
man Cap^t Nich^os Manning M^r John Llwellen and Symon
Sprecklin to appraise the said Shipp Liverpoole Merchant with
all her Gunns tackle furniture Ammunition and Apparell
and the appraisement thereof to exhibitt into the secretaryes
office under their hands. And accordingly the said Sly, Cros-
man Manning Llwellen and Sprecklin did returne that they

had by vcrtuc of ihc said warrant vallued the said shipp Liver-

poole Merchant with all the Gunns tackle furniture ammunition
and apparell to be worth two hundred pounds sterling As
by the said proceedings remaining also upon record in the said
secretaryds office may more at large appeare. And this
Deponent further sayth that hee beleives the said Christopher
Rousby and others by his order did the same day seize and
take possession of the said shipp and all the goods and mer-
chandizes in the same as well those goods as had cocquetts
as those that had none and deteyned the same from the said
John Addison and Mark Cordea and other owners thereof.
And this Deponent hath heard that the said John Addison and
Mark Cordea did often demand of the said Christopher Rousby
restitution of the goods hee had soe seized and for which the
said Richard Windall had delivered Cocquetts at his entry as

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