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

Liber K.

Darnal having to him the said Greenberry as also to this
Board positively disowned & denied & to have any such
Bonds in his Custody or to know where or in whose pos-
session they may be, the said Coll^o Greenberry hath moved &
it is granted unto him that the said Certificate may be
recorded in the Journall of this Board there to remain to pos-
terity in discharge of the said bonds from any future pretence
or claim thereunto the said Certificate produced being well
viewed & approved of by this Board to be good Sufficient
& Substantial Law to all intents & purposes to discharge the
same Port of Cowes

Know yee that Iohn Thurber Commander of the
Ship Philip of New York from Maryl^d his Maj^stys Plan-
tation in America hath duly Entred in this Port the
[sealed] 31^st of May last & the 6^th ins^t Iune & put on Land two
hundred & fifty hhds & a pcell in Bulk Maryland To-
bacco being all the Goods & Merchandize taken in at
his Majestys said Plantation in America & w^ch hath
paid his Majestys Subjects & additional Duty in dis-
charge of his Bond this Voyage taken by the chief
Officers at the port of Pottux^t in Maryl^d aforesaid as
[sealed] P Certificate thence dated the 8^th of April last under
the hand & Seal of Henry Lowe Collector witness
our hands & Seals of Office this 10^th of Iune 1684

p. 274

Anno Caroli 2^d XXXVI
Tho Moore
Tho Cole Coll p Cust
W^m Bowles
p Comp^t

P. R. O.

Maryland
B. I. Vol. 8.
p. 120

At the Committee of Trade and Plantations
At the Councill Chamber at Whitehall
the 15^th of September 1693.

Upon reading several Letters from the Governor and Coun-
cill of Maryland to the Committee dated the 14^th of October
21^st of December and 11^th of April last together with Articles
of Impeachment against S^r Thomas Lawrence Secretary of
that Province upon which Articles the Governor and Councill
of Maryland acquaint their Lordships they had committed
and confined Sir Thomas Lawrence and had dismist him from
being of the Councill and Judge of the Provinciall Court there
appearing to the Committee no ground for such proceedings
although the allegation conteined in the said Articles were
true. But that the proceeding of the Governor and Councill
jn this matter are illegal and arbitrary. Their Lordships are