188 Records Illustrating the History of Maryland

P. R. O.

Maryland
B. I. Vol. 2,
B. E.

have any Publique Letters to send to his sacred Majesty or
the Lords of his Majestie's most honorable Privy Councill they
may have a safe conveyance in their Majesties Friggots and if
their Majesties Collectors have any accounts or other papers
to send, they may there send them.
Gentlemen, I finde there are some persons that for the
time being take care for preserving the peace, administring
the Laws in their Majesties' Province of Maryland, I desire
that I may receive an account of the Gentlemen's names and to
what person or persons they desire I may direct my Letters for
their Majesties service and you may assure yourselves I will
upon all occasions give you notice of all matters that shall be
for the security of their Majesties subjects and Interest.
Enclosed I send you a copy of the Report of the Lords
Committee for Trade and Plantations on the Marchants' peti-
tions and his Majestie's Order thereupon, by which it appears
the Convoys were sent at the marchants' desire, I desire that
you send me the names of their Majesties' Collectors in Mary-
land and that you order them to send me an account of all the
shipps they have cleared for Europe, since the first of Ian^ry last
I am Gentlemen
Your loving Friend
directed,
to those that for the time being take care to execute the
Laws etc in the Province of Maryland.

(Endorsed)
Captain Nichols to M^r Coode etc
Iune 6^th 1690.

p. 22

Copy of Protest against Coode and his Associates.

Maryland 19 Iune 1690.

It might have reasonably been expected from Iohn Coode
and others his Associates who out of a pretence of a more
than ordinary Zeale for their Majesties' service and the secur-
ity of the Rights and properties of the people of this Prov-
ince, have overturned this the late most peaceable and quiet
Government, (of the which they assumed to themselves) their
most ready complyance with the least intimation they should
know of his Majesty's pleasure in any case whatsoever and
that they would have behaved themselves towards the good
people of this province as pretended but as the Letter hath
been maintained in the rifleing and pillageing of severall
of the most emenent protestants Houses the imprisoning of
the persons of some and sending armed men in persute of
others, from place to place with warrants to ffetch them Dead