50 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1687 /8-89.

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to deliver it back or make any satisfaccon to the owner His
Lordship and the Government here will not have those Indians
be in the least molested in their possessions and beings
Therefore you are hereby required (especially such of you as
are neerest) that you notify this as well to the English as the
Indians aforesaid in your County Also that you let no
Offender in that nature be unpunished and perticulerly that
you order that the aforesaid Joshson deliver the Canue back
to the owner or make him honest satisfaccon for the same.
From the Council Chamber October the 20^th 1688.
To the Com^r of the County
Court of Dorchester County
These

Joseph Spernon of Caecill County being lately Endicted for
commiting a Rape and found guilty but not yet condemned.
Ordered that pardon issue for the said Spernon before con-
demnation.
The oath of one of the Deputy Governors administered to
the hon^ble Coll: Edward Pye by the hon^ble the President. Also
the oath of Councellor to his Lordship.

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Colonial
Papers.

Address of the Inhabitants of
S^t Clements in S^t Mary's County up upon
the Birth of the P: W:

The humble hearty Address of y^r Majesties most dutyfull
and Loyall Subjects the Gents. Merch'^s Planters. Freeholders
and Freemen of S^t Clements and Cheptico Hundred in S^t
Mary's County in the Majesties Province of Maryland under
the Dominion of the right Honourable Charles the Baron of Bal-
temore etc meet together to celebrate the nativitie of y^r Majes-
ties Heir apparent the Prince of Wales.
Upon the arrival of the most welcome & joyfull News of the
happie delivery of your Royal concort and our most gracious
Queen of a most hopefull Prince, wee could doe noe less than
offer due thanks to Almighty God for soe inestimable a bless-
ing to publish our due sense and joy for the same to the best of
our abilities.
Wee have at this distance to our greatest comfort and feli-
city beheld and admired your Majestie like the sun in the firma-
nent not only dispersing all mallitious and threatening clouds
of disloyalltie but also making us and our posterity happier
by y^r proliffick virtue, & we humbly beseech your Majestie to
believe that wee have a full sense of this our present happi-
ness and Esteem this Late blessing of Almighty God not only
as an earnest of His mercifull kindness to us and those that