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sition of the 2 / p^r hhd. do therefore humbly desire your
Excell^y will be pleased to permitt M^r LLewellin to come down
to the house for some small time and that he may bring along
with him the severall Accounts by him Taken from the Navall
Officers of this Province to the end they may be rightly
Informed about the same.
Signed p^r Order Henry Denton Cl Assembly.

U. H. J.

Coll George Robotham and Captain Courts together with
John LLewellin Clerk of the Council Appointed and Ordered
to go to the house with what Accounts he the s^d LLewellin
hath in his Custody and to shew them to the house, and also
to let them know that Care is taken for sending to Major
King Navall Officer at Pocomoke District for the rest of the
Acc^ts in his hands, which is suddenly Expected will be here,
but they may make the best Computation it is to be Supposed
from the Book of Entries where every years accounts are
Summed up but neither from thence can they make any cer-
tain Calculation; The incomes thereof being Various and
different every year according to the number of Shipping
coming here, and the Crops of Tobacco here made.
Sent also by them the Message last Drawn up yesterday
and the severall Bills therein Mentioned.
Also the Address Signed by this Board sent to the house to
be Signed there
Produced and read a Letter from M^r Griffith Jones to the
Governor Viz^t

May it please your Excellency
The Account that I can give to your Excellency concerning
M^r Lillingstone and the Transactions of him and his Com-
plices at a Court held in Talbot County the third Tuesday in
february last is as follows Viz^t That the said M^r Lillingstone
Came to Court on Tuesday morning and taking an Upper
room in the Court house Continued there untill Friday follow-
ing, during which time he and his Associates were Drinking:
That M^r Finney and other Gentlemen of the Court being in
Company with M^r Lillingstone It was Demanded by some of
his Company by what Power or Authority they held a Court,
that the Company that M^r Lillingstone had were such persons
as were disaffected to the present Governm^t That on Thurs-
day Night following the Court breaking up that Evening some
of M^r Lillingstone Company leaving him in the room, went
down and did put their heads into the Pillory and others took
their horses and rid into the Court and did carry their horses
upon the Bench where the Justices did usually sit, the next

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