238 Papers relating to the Associators' Assembly, 1689.

P. R. O.

now assembled, and not together will most assuredly &
undoubtedly be aforded and indulged their royal Majesties
gracious clemency and pardon and we doe hereby further
declare, publish and make knowne for the sattisfaction of the
whole Province in Generall and as a farther encouragement
to reduce them to a right understanding and a due sense of
their duty and obedience to their Majesties that in order to
settle the Govern^t of this Province into some due method and
establish the piece and quiet thereof so far forth as may be
until such time as their Majestie's royal pleasure therein shall
be farther signified and made knowne to us. We are now in
their Majesties name assembled and met together and for no
other intent and purpose whatsoever as we have always pre-
tended and declared and that the greatest care and caution
imaginable has and shall be used to effect the same with as
little cost and charge to the Province as possibly may be as
will appear by the publique leavy this year the least we dare
affirme that ever any Assembly yet produced, not exceeding,
according to calculation five and twenty pounds of tobacco
per poll or thereabouts, although the same hath advanced the
one moyetie at least by means of the refractory Omission of
the said County as aforesaid for whose representatives only
this House hath so long waited in vain and therefore we pro-
ceed boldly to vindicate, justifie & maintain our lawfull, neces-
sary and just convention at this time and legall proceedings
therein against all opposers gainsayers and enemies thereunto
whatsoever whome together with their adherents, aiders and
abettors that shall notwithstanding still hereafter persist, con-
tinue and abide obstinate refractory and disobedient to their
sacred Majesties and this present Authority under them we
doe hereby proclaime, publish and pronounce Rebells and
Traytors to our said Soveraigne Lord and Lady King William
and Queen Mary and as such to be deemed, reputed & taken
and to be dealt with and proceeded against accordingly and
we doe hereby order & appoynt To publishe and make Procla-
mation hereof in the most publick and convenient places in the
same County whereof he is not to faill at his perill. Given at
the Citty at S^t Maries the second day of September in the
first year of their Maj^ties reigne Ann: Dom: (89.).

God save King William and
Queen Mary.

(Endorsed)
Maryland
2. Sepf 1689.
Proclamation concerning Captain Hill.

Rec^d from my Lord Baltemore
31. Dec^r 89.