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courseing concerning the troubles in England. The said
ffendall asked this Deponent whither it was true that a man
of Warr was comeing in for the Lord Baltemore to wch this
Deponent replyed that it was soe reported, and that there were
two ffriggatts ready but were not yett come, the said ffendall
again said what need they send any men of warr for this
Countrey, for if they will but send two or three Lines to me I
engage to secure my Lord Baltemore and send him home
saveing that charge, for further said the sd ffendall I Durst
engage with thirty or ffourty men to Doe it, And that two or
three Daies before he had been over with the Governor with
whom he had had a greate Deale of Discourse, and amongst
the rest were talkeing of the business of poysoning the people
at St Maries, and that he the said ffendall told the Governor
that he beleived it was a thing acted and Designed by the
Papists against his Honor and that he would write home to
England concerning the same; And the sd ffendall further
said that he had suffered much heretofore, but now he hoped
the time was comeing that he might right himself. And
further this Depont saith not.
Jurat. Apll 29: 1679: ffrancis Partis.
Summons also issued forth to Capt John Harris requireing
him to make his appearance also this Day in the words foil,
viz.
Maryland ss :
You are hereby strictly charged & Comanded forthwith
upon sight hereof to make yor psonall appeareance before his
Lspp: the right Honble the Lord Propry and his Councell at
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Manahowickes Neck to answer unto such matters and things
as shall be there on behalf of his said Lspp: propounded unto
you, whereof faile not as you will answer the contrary at yor
perill Dated the 29th Day of Aprill 1679 :
To Capt John Harris Comdr
of the Shipp Dover. Signed p Ordr JL. Cl. Consil.
These.
Joshua Doyne of the County of St Maries being also
required to give in his Evidence upon Oath Examined
Deposed.
That sometime in the yeare 1677: he being at Capt ffendalls
house and there sitting by the fire side, the said ffendall
entered into a discourse concerning Coll. Jesse Wharton say-
ing that he had been very unkindly Dealt with by him, that he
had been kept undr by the Lord Baltemore, the Chancelor
and the said Wharton, and that he did veryly beleive if said
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