128 Records Illustrating the History of Maryland

P. R. O.
Maryland
B. I.
Vol. II,
B. E. 38

Popish Fugitives protection in Virginia and will assist with
force to resettle them in their former Authority; This I
thought no inconvenient Information being in all dutyfull
Respect and service Your hon^rs most faithfull
humble servant
J^no Coode.

(Endorsed)
J^no Coodes Letf to Virginia
Nov: 16^th 1689.
M^r Josephs and others lately in Armes
ag^t the Prof and two Popish Preists
fled to Virginia with Armes and Amunition
that they may be secured in order to
be brought back.

P. R. O.
Colonial
Papers.

To the King's most Excellent Majestic
Wee your Majesties most loyall and dutifull Subjects the
ancient Protestant Inhabitants of Kent County in your Maj-
esties province of Maryland, who have here enjoyed many
halcyon dayes under the imediate Government of Charles
Lord Baron of Baltemore, and his Hon^bIe Father absolute
Lords Proprietaries of the said Province by Charter of your
Royal Progenitors, wherein our Rights and Freedoms are so
interwoven with his Lordships prerogative, that we have
always had the same liberties and priveledges secured to us,
as other your Majesties Subjects in the Kingdom of England.
And we again by virtue of the said Charter (as it enjoyned us)
have always paid our obedience to the said Lord Baltimore
and his Hon^ble Father, by whom equally and indifferently were
Justice, favour, authority, and preferment administered, be-
stowed, conferred, and given to and upon your Majesties Sub-
jects of all persuasions. Do in prostrate and humble manner
testifie to your Majestie that we abhorr & detest the falsehood
and unfaithfulness of John Code and others his associates and
Agents, who first by dispersing untrue reports of prodigious
Armies of Indians and French Papists invading us did stir up
unjust Jealousies, and dismal apprehensions in the less cau-
tious sort of people of this Province, and then having thereby
created unnecessary fears, and disposed the people to mutiny
and tumult, made furthur insurrection, and extorted the law-
full Government from the Lord Proprietary who was always
as ready to redresse our Grievances as we to complain, and
now the said John Coade and his accomplices having assumed
the Government upon themselves and procured a Convention
to be tumultuously assembled did tyrannically imprison, re-
strain and turn out of civil and military Comission, several of
your Majesties good Subjects of unquestionable Loyalty and