240 Papers relating to the Associators' Assembly, 1689.

P. R. O.

(Endorsed)
Maryland
4^th Sept^r 1689.
Address of the Assembly to the King
Rec^d: 31 Dec^r 1689.

[Reports from the Committee ofSecresy.
dated 4^th Sept^r 1689.]

The Coffiitty of Secresy appoynted by the Present Assembly
the representative Body of this Province doe make this Report
as followeth — viz^t:

We have Diligently, faithfully and with all due circumspec-
tion made inquisition into the severall affairs and concerns
comitted to our care for discovering the truth thereof & we
finde First that the late popish Governors have contrived, con-
spired and designed by several villanous practises and machi-
nations to betray their Majestie's Protestant Subjects of this
Province to the French, Northern and other Indians and that
there hath been and still is eminent danger of our lives liber-
tyes and estates by the malitious endeavours and combinations
of the s^d Governors with the Indians and papists to assist in
our destruction and the subversion of our religion and we
alsoe finde by the informations, examinations, evidences and
depositions by us taken that the late Governors did prorogue
& obstruct the last Assembly from meeting least the truth of
their unjust contrivances and wicked designes should be made
manifest and we the Committee aforesaid doe also discover
and apparently finde the traiterous undertakeings of the said
Governors in their renuntiation, disowning and denying the
right, title and soveraignty of King William & Queen Mary
to the Crowne of England and its dominions, the verity of the
above particulars are to be further proved by other numerous
Circumstances and evidences that are now in custody of the
said Committee for their Majestie's service.
Vera Copia
J^no Skipper Clk:

(Endorsed)
Maryland
4. Sept: 1689.
Report of the Committee of Safety.