Assembly Proceedings, August—September 1681. 135

Writts for Supplying the Vacancies of their Members according
to their request which they may Please to Enter on their
Iournall—
Col Tailler is Sent with the Examination of Cholicke's Wife
relating to the Murder at Point Lookout to the Lower house
for their perusall Sign,d by the Clerk of the Council—
M^r Carvile and Col Burgess from the Lower House return
the Paper last Sent them relating to the Indians which they
have perused and are Ready Some of their Members to Join
with Some of the Members of this House, in a Committee for
further Consultations thereupon and likewise present the fol-
lowing Paper from the Lower house in behalf of Cap^t Coode
Viz^t

Lower house of Assembly the 26th Aug^t 1681 —
This house unwilling to Err in any Dutyfull respect to your
Lordship and yet to preserve the Rights and Priviledges of
this House, have caused a Diligent Search of Such Records
and Authorities as might best inform us of the Rights and
Priviledges of the Same: The best of which in being are those
of Our own Country, upon due Examination whereof we find,
that only Felony Treason and refusing to give Security for
Breach of the Peace Can Divest any Member of this house of
his Priviledge of Sitting in this House as a Member thereof,
and not a bare breach of the Peace, much Less an Accusation
only of the Breach of the Peace—
Therefore this house Humbly Beseech that the Restauration
of the Said Member may be with Your Lordships Good will
and Likeing or to Express such Cause as may not infringe the
Priviledges of this house
Signed p^r Order of this House
C: Boteler Cl Assistant to the Lower house of Assembly—

U. H. Journal
1659-98

Upper house August the 26th 1681.
This house by his Lordships Order do say that Cap^t Iohn
Coode being a Member of the Assembly and a Iustice of the
Peace did at a County Court held for S^t Maries County Carry
himself So Debauchedly & Profanely that The said Court made
an Order that he should find Sureties for the Peace and Good
Behaviour which Order the Said Coode Contemptuously tore
& Disobeyed and for that is to Answere his Lordships Iustices
at the next Provincial Court and for this his Lordship Caused
him to be put out of the Commission of the Peace in revenge
of which the said Coode hath from time to time persisted to
Machinate the Ruin of the Publick peace by forgeing and
Spreading false Scandalous reports Uttering Mutinous and
Seditious Speaches threatning force of ten thousand Men to

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