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said City of S^t Marys on the 20^th day of September next
ensuing whereof all & Singular the respective Sheriffs of
the several and respective Countys of this Province are
hereby straightly Charged & Commanded to make publick
proclamation in the most publick & Convenient places
within their respective Countys aforesaid & to give due &
timely notice as well to such of their Majestys Council as

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Inhabit or reside within their said Respective Countys as to

all & singular the Respective Deputye & Delegates of the

ffreemen thereof thereunto elected & chosen that all excuses
& Delays set apart they & every of them be & personally
appear at the s^d City of S^t Marys on the said Twentieth day
of September next to do & Consent to those things which
then & there by the Favour of God shall happen to be Or-
dained
Given at the s^d City of S^t Marys the 25^th Day of August
Anno Dom 1693 In the 5^th Year of the reign of our Sov-
ereign Lord & Lady King William & Queen Mary &c
God save King Will^m & Queen Mary

Memd the Assembly which was porogued by order of
Council May the 10^th last Prorogued from the 20^th of the said
month on which day it was then to sit to the 20^th of Iuly foll⁰
was by his Excellency afterwards further prorogued from the
said 20^th of Iuly to the 20^th of this Instant August & from
thence again by his Excellency further prorogued to the 13^th
of October as is mentioned in the above Proclamation
Were produced & Ordered to be read these foll^o Depositions
(viz^t)

The Deposition of Rich^d Southern of Calvert County Gent
aged Fifty Years or thereabouts (viz^t)
The Deponent upon Oath examined saith that on the 21^st
day of August Instant p Vertue of a prsecept to him directed
p the honble Ne^a Blakiston Esq^r the 18^th day of the said
month he this Deponent went therewith to the house of Coll^o

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Henry Iowles & told him that the Gov^r & Coun^cl Required
his Attendance on Wednesday 23^d said Aug" he Replied he
would obey their orders he would wait upon them so he
swings himself about & said God damn him this was nothing
but what he did expect a parcell of Shitten dogs of you
& bid him this Deponent go about his Business he would
be sure to be there himself the Deponent thereupon told
him there was more in it then so for him to go by him-
self for he this Depon^t had recd a warrant which directed
him what to do & so shewed him the warrant which he read
& said he had spoken Nothing but what he had been beaten

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