5 30 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1692-1694.

Liber K.

Sir
Your Excellencys & Councils Letter of the 11^th & 14^th
Instant I received the 20^th with the inclosed Copy of the
Depositions referred to which I have communicated to their
Majestys Council, presume ere this you have determined
what relates to the strange Indians you mention at the head
of the Bay & where to be if admitted to Continue in your
parts but do not know how it Can be well that the Frenchman
be in repute or at all Suffered to live with them
I am Suprized that popish or other dissaffected persons to
their Majestys can give you trouble at this time & doubt not
your having taken fitting courses with such & pticulary Gil-
bert Turbevile & Garret Vansweeringen you are pleased to
name being the Concealors & Abbettors if not Contrivers
of what he alledgeth to have been said falsly Reflecting on
my self & their Majestys Council with me in your Govern-
ment where if so it might have been censured long since,
which will best demonstrate the regard your Excellency &
Council have to those authorised by their Maiestys in this

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Place where cannot discover that any in the like Contrivances
but have caused to be taken good Bayl of Coll^o Digges the
only person you name to be spoke to in these Parts
Our General Assembly begun the second of March &
ended the 3^d Instant but on advice in Council upon applica-
tion made from the Governor of New York have resolved &
ordered six hundred pounds to be sent him to New York for
their Maj^stys Service against the French in those parts
I pray you will give an order for the return of the Five &
twenty Barrels of powder lent your Excellency the last Year
being wanted in their Majestys Stores I am
Your Excellencys most humble Serv^t
Virginia 22^d April 1693
E Andros
To his Excellency Coll^o Lionel
Copley Captain General & Gov^r
in Chief of
Maryland
Present

Ordered that an Answer be given to the foregoing Lett^rs
taking notice of the reflections his Excellency seems therein
to make & to give him to understand that it may be not
thought so strange to meet with such disturbances in such a
Government as this under two distinct Interests and Religions
so diametrically opposite to each other that M^r Vansweer-
ingens Deposition (if his Excellency please to peruse & Con-
sider it well) directs an Enquiry to be made of Madam Digges