60 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1667-75.

Liber A. M.
p. 23

December the 16^th 1669

The Council approves of the abovesaid Thomas Salmon to
be Clerk of Baltimore County until further Order
John Blomfield Clk Council

p. 27

January the 4^th 1669
Upon information Given by Daniel Ienifer Gent unto Wil-
liam Calvert Esq^r one of his Lordships Privy Council that Iames
Clifton of Virginia Gent being within this Province (to witt) the
second day of this instant month of Ianuary at the City of S^t
Marys within this Province did Maliciously and Traiterously
Utter publish and declare divers Traiterous words of Concern-
ing and Against the Majesty and Person of our Royal Sov-
ereign King Charles the second King of England &c^a (to wit)
that the King was a Son of a Whore and owed him one thou-
sand pounds and never paid him nor never would
Whereupon it was Commanded Iohn Keelee that he take
the Body of the said Iames Clifton and him to bring before the
said William Calvert Esq^r or some one of his Lordships Privy
Council to answer the premises
Afterwards to wit the fifth day of the same month of Ianu-
ary in the year aforesaid before Philip Calvert Esq^r & William
Calvert Esq^r two of his Lordships Council came the said Iames
Clifton in the Custody of the said Iohn Keelee and the said
Daniel Ienifer likewise and the said Daniel saith that he was
informed by Abraham Aldred and Walter Lane that the said
Iames Clifton had spoken the abovesaid words against the
Kings Majesty whereof he standeth accused and the said Abra-
ham Aldred & Walter Lane appearing & being sworn upon
their Oaths the s^d Abraham Aldred saith that being in Com-
pany with M^r Clifton on Sunday last among several others
there was Some quarrelling but he never heard M^r Clifton
speak any thing against the King of England in his life and
further deposeth that he did not hear the said Clifton speak
these words (viz^t) that the King was a Son of a whore and

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owed him one thousand Pounds and never paid him nor never
would
And the said Walter Lane upon examination saith that being
in Company with M^r Clifton and several others there was some
discourse Concerning Indian Kings but he did not hear the
said Clifton speak any such words as the King was a Son of a
Whore and owed him one thousand pounds & never paid
him nor never would and that M^r Berry did then drink a health
to the King but what King this deponent knoweth not and
that the said Clifton did say to the said Berry that he was an
unworthy Person