134 Records Illustrating the History of Maryland

P. R. O.

Colonial
Papers.

[Two other copies in the same words, but addressed to the
King alone, are signed by the following persons :]

John Hawkins Henry Price
Will. Coursey Richard Parnes
Ric^d Macklin George Bowell
Rich. Jones James Smith
Daniel Glover Samuel Taylor
Robert Macklin William Hackit
Robert Kent Thomas Wetherby
William Tonge John Whittington
Rich. Tilghman Francis Shephard
John Chaiers John Hambleton
John Johnson Michael Harbet
Nathaniel Pucker Robert Norest
John Nabb Charles Hollinworth
John Lamb Andrew Hamilton
Joseph Lambert. Jn^o Swaine
William Conners James Murphy
Hugh Sherwood Charles Cartwright
John Newman Robert Harrison
Ralph Darson Sing^r George Corson
W. Hambleton Thomas Evans
John Yonn Mich^l Turbutt
Richard Seddeman Charles Robinson
Henry Frith Ralph Dawson jun^r
Henry Odcocke Zerubable Wells
Joseph Green.

To his most Sacred Majesty
The humble Petition of the Inhabitants of
Cecill County in the Province of Maryland.

18^th Nov^er 1689.
Most humbly Sheweth.
That whereas certaine discontented and indignant persons
to shelter themselves from the Law,and to prejudise the Lord
Baltemore the Proprietor of this Province did lately in a
violent manner by force of Arms put out all such Governors
as were here placed by the said Lord Baltemore, and possesst
themselves of the said place and Government raising divers
scandalous and ficticious pretenses to blind the eyes of the
giddy and bisotted multitude, in which time, divers of your
protestant Subjects here although they have made no dis-
turbance have been by them proclaimed Rebels and in divers
places imprisoned and confined and for no other reason (that
ever we have yet heard) than because they abhorred, detested
and would not joyne with them in their tumultary and illegal