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

P. R. O.

Colonial
Papers.

aforesaid and also of the said goods taken out of the George
as aforesaid. But the said Christopher Rousby refused to
deliver the same. And this Deponent sayth that after the
arrivall of the shipp the George the said John Addison and
Mark Cordea or one of them did (as this deponent hath heard)
produce the Cocquetts for the said two Trusses and hogshead
of Brandy and delivered the same with the Cocquetts for other
goods in the shipp the George to the officer appointed to enter
shipps here and for the further satisfaction of the said Chris-
topher Rousby did produce the permitt of the custome house of
Dublin to take the said goods out of the George and put them
on board the Liverpoole Merchant and procured the depossicons
of severall of the seamen belonging to the said shipp the
George to prove the said permitt of Dublin and this Deponent
hath seen the depositions of Thomas Hull W^m Bennet John
Wharton and John Fisher taken before the Hon^ble Wm Calvert
Esq^re principall secretary of the said province to that purpose
and the said Christopher Rousby was made acquainted with the
said oathes (as this Deponent beleives) and yet notwithstanding
he refused to deliver the said goods to the said John Addison
and Mark Cordea or either of them. Whereupon the said
John Addison and Mark Cordea by one Robert Ridgeley their
Attorney upon the seaventeenth day of February in the year
of our Lord one thousand six hundred seaventy and nine were
forced to file a Bill in the provincial Court of the said Province
against the said Christopher Rousby being one of the Attorneys
of the said Court and declared against him in an accon of Trover
and conversion for certaine goods taken out of the said shipp
Liverpoole Merchant to the value of sixty foure thousand
seaven hundred twenty and five pounds of Tobacco and the
said John Addison and Mark Cordea or one or other of them
did (as the deponent hath beene credibly informed) before the
said action brought, deliver to the said Christopher Rousby a
pticular of the goods by them claymed and which had beene
duely taken in, in England and for which they had delivered in
their Cocketts as aforesaid as pticularly the said Trusses and
hogshead of Brandy aforesaid and did also demand of him
the said Christofer Rousby to redeliver to them the Cocquetts
dd in to the said office and which (as was alleadged) were by
the officer delivered to the said Christofer Rousby, but the said
Christofer Rousby denyed to restore the goods or give them
the said Cocquetts only he permitted the said John Addison to
take a copy of the Cocquettes of the Liverpoole Merchant and
not only soe but the said Christofer Rousby appeared to
defend the said action and would have reteyned this deponent
being also one of the Attorneys of the said Court to be Attorney
for him but this deponent refused to bee Attorney for him, telling