in the Years 1689-90. 191

Copy of M^r Coode's letter to Captain Nicholsen

Iune 24^th 1690. Wicocomico, in
Maryland.
May it please your Honor,
I have written your Honor a letter the 13^th inst. including a
receipt of the letter from his Majestie to this Province which
came to my hands the 30^th May since which I have received
your Honor's letter to this Government which presume is the
only letter you have beene pleased to send hither th^t from his
Majesty I have communicated to the persons impowd by a
Convention of the Representatives of the whole province for
preserving the peace and administring the Laws which are a
Committee of two out of each county in conjunction with
myself for the end to whom will likewise communicate your
Honor's Letters aforesaid who are to meet att Potuxent the
eigth of Iuly in the meane time presume on behalf of this
Government to return your Honor due thanks and acknowl-
edgment for the care and kindness for and towards the same
what is intimated concerning Coll: Digge and others I doubt
not when the committee meet to give full satisfaction since
there is one Richard Hill fled lately into Virginia for treason-
able words against their Majesties and for raising of men and
being in actuall arms here against the present Government
since their Majesties Proclamation of whom and others for-
merly I thought and doe think itt my duty to give the Govern-
ment of Virginia account least their uninterrupted insinua-
tion may be prejudiciall to the peace and against his Majestie's
interest in this Province.
As to the business of New York we have a messenger there
to give us an account of the reallity of matters relating to
the success and attempt of the ffrench against the English
believing all is not so bad as M^r Leysler represents I received
the inclosed last week from one lames Younge a person your
Honor may perhaps have heard of, the most intelligent man
in this Province in the Indian Affaires. Your Honor may be
confident of the best and soonest intelligence we can give you
of affairs to the northward which daily expect from our said
Messenger that resides at New York, humbly desiring your
Honors kind communication of what may be servicable here
for their Majesties' interest.
As to the sailing of shipps from hence I have taken that
particular care therein before the arrival of the men of warr
th^t those th^t have been cleared have been obliged to stop in
Virginia and apply themselves to Captain Roe in order to
joyne with the ffleet to be made upp there for England those
th^t have been cleared since have likewise given bond to apply

P. R. O.

Maryland
B. I. Vol. 2,
B. E.
p. 23