532 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1692-1694.

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manage an Office of so great a trust, we the said Delegates
& Iustices foreseing the danger there was likely to accrue to

the whole County did petition to the said S^r Thomas Lawrence
to Constitute one W^m Hemsley of the said County to be Clerk
of the said Court, a person in whom we have great Confi-
dence & are well Satisfied of his Skill & knowledge under-
standing & trust in the said Office which petition as yet was
never answered
Therefore your Excellencys petitioners in all humble
manner supplicates your Excellency to Consider the
premises & grant this our so reasonable request in
constituting the said William Hemsley to be Clerk of
the said Court & it will be a perpetual obligation to
Your Excellencys humble Serv^ts
Iohn Davis W^m Fursey
W^m Coursey Hugh Sherwood
Rob^t Smith Ri: Carter
Isaac Winchester

The same Answer given to this petition as to the foregoing
petition from the Iustices of Ann Arundel County

To his Excellency the Governor
The petition of Thomas Hichcock
Whereas your petitioner & his wife are bound hither by
recognizance to be Evidence for their Majestys against Amos
Nichols & have attended here five days at his own cost is a
poor man that lives by his Labour no Body at home but
Young Children & now like to lose passage with M^r Vander-
hyden

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Your Petitioner humbly Supplicates your Excellency
to take the premises into your serious Consideration
& grant them to return home
And your petitioner as in Duty Bound
shal ever pray &c^a

The petitioners have hereby Liberty granted them to return
to their homes & ordered to appear here again at the next
Provincial Court to give in their evidence as before Required
The Choptank Indians together with Christopher Nutter
the Interpreter are Called in have read unto them the Ar-
ticles of peace drawn up according to the former order of this
Board
They to wit Netoughwouton &c Tequassino the two great
men formerly mentioned declare themselves unwilling to take
upon them the Government of their Nation as hath been pro-
posed to them but rather they propose that the Son of the last