508 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1684-89.

Liber B.
P. R. O.

and soe continued till the 11^th of the same month in the
eleventh year of the Dom: of the R^t hon^ble Charles &c. Ann:
Dom: 1686.

Commissioners present
M^r William Dare M^r Gideon Gundry
M^r Richard Pullen M^r Edward Jones
M^r Nicholas Allum M^r George Warner
M^r Edward Blay M^r James Wroth.

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Itt is by the Court ordered that the Sheriff take into his Cus-
tody Giles Porter one Ralph and Phillip Burgen which was
accordingly done.
Itt is likewise ordered that a Bill of Indictment be drawn on
the behalf of the Lord Proprietary against the persons above
mentioned for libellous and scandelous words spoken against
the present King James the second and M^r John Thompson
one of the Attorney of the said Court was by the Court
appointed for that very matter only to draw an Indictment
thereupon which was accordingly done by the said Thompson
in these words foll: Giles Porter one M^r Child one Ralph and
one Phillip Burgen stands indicted for that they the said
Porter Child Ralph and Phillip Burgen did on the 11^th day of
July 1686 att the House of the said Burgen and in the yard
before the door sitting drinking of a Bowl of Punch they began
the Duke of Monmouth's health the said Giles Porter rising
up did say utter and speak these reproachfull words against our
Soveraigne Lord King James the Second viz^t that the Duke of
Monmouth's health he the said Giles Porter would drink butt
for York (meaning our Soveraign Lord the King) hath been a
bloody Rogue for he hath poisoned his Brother the late King
Charles and he began (meaning our said Soveraign Lord King
James the Second) the first invention of the burning of London
All these words tending to the dishonour of our said Lord the
King his Crown & Kingdom.

The Pannell of the Grand Jury
Samuell Wheeler forman

Thomas "Peirce Edward Lademore Alex: Mackahy
William Drake Thomas Hitchcock Walter Meeke
Richard Brown John Waggett John Parke.
John Atkins Humphry Nicholls
Issack Cask W^m Brown

The Jury returned on the back side of the Bill of Indictment
[Ignoramus for want of evidence]
Then itt was ordered by the Court that a warrant issue forth
to the Sheriff for the bringing before the Justices of this Court