Papers relating to the Associators' Assembly, 1689. 237

Proclamation concerning Captain Hill
dated 2 Sept^r 1689.
Maryland ss.

By the Assembly
A Proclamation.

Whereas by the Instigation of Captain Richard Hill of Ann
Arrundell County and others his Associates and Accomplices
malitiously insinuating into the Inhabitants of the said County,
the great and extraordinary Charges and Taxes like to be
brought upon them by the convening and sitting of this
present Assembly and endeavouring to seduce them (against
their inclinations and contrary to the example of the rest of
the whole Province in generall) from their natural obedience
to their sacred Majesties by persuading & diverting them from
electing and sending to this Assembly their Representatives,
to serve in the same as in their Majestie's names they were
required and oblidged. The grand affairs of this Province now
under the consideration of this said Assembly have bin much
obstructed and retarded, of the fatall mischeefes and inconve-
niencies whereof the said Hill and his accomplices being truly
conscious, and to avoyd themselves the pains and penalties
thereon ensuing have craftely, falsely & mallitiously imputed
the same to the unanimous concurrent consent and act of the
s^d Inhabitants in generall as by their letter to the House read
and recorded in the Journall thereof hath been suggested and
sett forth whereby to render them the more obnoxious and
lyable to their Maj^ties just displeasure and censure of this
House and all other their Majesties loyall Protestant Subjects.
We therefore the Delegates & Representatives of this Prov-
ince in Assembly now sitting in the Citty of S^t Marys, having
taken cognisence thereof and duely considered the same
willing to undeceive and rightly to informe their Majesties'
loyall Subjects in the said County of Anarrundell and else-
where within this Province blinded and misled by the pre-
tended false zeal of the said Hill his accomplices and others to
deliver them from the perill and danger thereof and to reduce
them to their due obedience to our Soveraigne Lord and
Lady King William and Queen Mary have thought fitt hereby
to publish, proclaime and declare that to all their Majesties'
loving Subjects and Inhabitants of the said County and other
alike concernd that shall forthwith desert, pronounce and pro-
test against the wicked designe faction and conspiracy of the
said Hill and his Accomplices their practises & proceedings
as aforesaid contrary to the faith and allegiance which in duty
they owne to their sacred Majesties disobeying and contemn-
ing their sovereignty and authority in whose names we are

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