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Court have hereby erected & appointed to beginn & be held by
the Iustice & Iustices or any Four or more of them as af^d On
the One & twentieth day of this instant Aprill & afterwards
on every First Tuesday in Iuly October & Aprill in Each
respective Yeare dureing their Maj^ties pleasure or untill the
same shall be further signified & made knowne whereof you
& Every of you the Sherriffs & Chiefe Officers & others as
af^d upon the faith & allegiance which you ever Stand bound &
holden unto their Maj^ties William & Mary King & Queene &c
are firmly Enjoyned that in all things touching the Office &
Offices of Iustice & Iustices afd and to the Conservacon of
their Maj^ties peace & the peace of the said Province, & the
holding of the pleas aforesaid You be fully & wholly Obedient
& Assisting unto the said Chiefe Iustice and Iustices af^d
respectively to the best of their Skill power & knowledge
Given at the City of St. Maries the 16^th day of Aprill In the
third Year of their Maj^ties Reign &c^a Anno Domini 1691.
By Vertue of his Maj^ties Commande power &
Authoritys to us given & passed & Assented to in
this house this 16^th day of Aprill 1691.
Signed p Order.
Iohn Llewellen
Cl. Conc
Att a Provinciall Court held for our Soveraign Lord and
Lady King William and Queene Mary at the city of St Maries
in the Province of Maryland the one and Twentieth day of
Aprill Anno Dni 1691: in the third yeare of their Maj^ts Reign
&c^a and their continued untill the 25^th day of the same Month
Before
Nehemiah Blakiston Esq^r Chiefe Iustice
Coll Henry Jowles M^r Iohn Adison Iustices
M^r Thomas Tench M^r Robert Mason Assigned
Docfjohn Brooke

Aprill 22^nd 1691.
Maryland ss.
The Iuro^rs of our Soveraign Lord and Lady the King and
Queen upon their Oaths doe Present Major Nicholas Sewall late
of Calvert County in their Maj^ties province of Maryland afores^d
gents: John Woodcock late of St Maries County in the afore-
said Province gents: George Mason of Calvert County aforesaid
in the aforesaid Province Labourer: William Burleigh late of St
Maries County aforesaid in the aforesaid Province Carpenter,
and William Ayleward late of Somerset County in the afore-
said Province gent together with other popish Confederates to
the Iurors unknowne: For that they the third day of Ianuary
in the yeare of our Lord one thousand six hundred Eighty

P. R. O.

Maryland
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