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Then was called to the board George Godfrey under the
custody of Major William Boareman high Sheriff of St Maries
County
Who being charged with haveing endeavoured to raise a
mutiny amongst the people by his seditious Speeches and
actions stedfastly Denies what was alledged against him
whereupon were read to him these following Depositions viz
The Deposition of William Boyden aged Eight and ffourty
yeares or thereabouts touching the meeteing and sedition in
Charles County saieth
That he came to the house of George Godfrey on Thursday
the fourteenth of July last that then and there he found George
Godfrey and about tenn men more, that the said Godfrey
discoursed about goeing downe with those men in armes to
rescue Capt Josias ffendall who they said was prisoner out
upon bayle, that he the said Boyden disswaded the said God-
frey and the rest from goeing downe to rescue the said ffen-
dall, telling them that possibly the report was false of ffendalls
Imprisonmt and told them he would goe downe to Mrs ffendall
and see whither the Report were true or noe, Whereupon the
said Godfrey bid him the said Boyden tell Capt ffendall if he
did see him that he the said Godfrey would come downe to
him the said ffendall on Monday or Tuesday following with
the troope to which he the said Godfrey was Lievetenant and
as many men more. And Declareth further that Godfrey did
conceive ffendall was out of prison upon baile, and that there-
fore he Offered to come downe to him the said ffendall with
his troope to the intent ffendall should head them as he
beleived, And he further saieth that at his returne to Godfrey
he gave him to understand that ffendall was prisoner but not
bayled, Whereupon Godfrey said he would goe to Church
next Sonday, and gett what men he could there to joyne
with those men he had already sent for to meete him in armes
at Church that soe they might meete the troope at the head of
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Portobacco Creeke on Monday, and then they would take
Capt Randolph Brandt and tye him, and turne James Wheeler
out of the troope, (they being the onely Roman Catholicks in
the troope) that they might rescue ffendall, that he the sd Boy-
den came late to Church on Sonday purposely for feare of
being engaged by Godfrey and that before he came Godfrey
and his Complices had left off discourseing of their intended
Rescue of ffendall, because he the said ffendall was not come
home to his house, but was remooved into St Maries County or
elsewhere, though they were neere fourty men and most of
them in Armes viz: James Smallwood, Daniel Mathena, John
Cornish, Philip Hoskins, Thomas Abbott, Thomas Elder,
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