Proceedings of the Council of Maryland. 1678-1681. 407

Thomas Elder aged thirty yeares and upwards saith that on
Saturday the sixteenth Day of July A^o 1681: Nicholas Bede
came up from William Loves and came into the tobacco
ground to me, and I asked him what news and he told me
that Cap^t ffendall was taken, and said he is our Captain and
a liver in the County, why should we not goe downe to
release him, or to see what was the matter that he was taken,
and he desired me to come to Church the next morning with
my armes, and I asked him who gave orders to warne us in
with our armes, and he said One neighbour gave order unto
another, and further he said that there was two men more in
the County to be taken, and I askt him who they were and he
said M^r John Stone, and the Minister, and I answered him if
they take the Minister lett them Catch that catch cann, and
further saith not.

Whereupon It is ordered by the Court that Nicholas Bede
and the Evidence Thomas Elder be committed into the cus-

then also read to this board a Letter from Cap^t Brandt viz

May it please
Your L^dspp. I Cannot omitt any thing that may tend to the
peace and wellfare of your L^spps Province and good people
therein.
It is given out that M^r Edelen some tyme since being at
the Mill was heard to say that now your L^spp had gott ffendall
and Coode we should doe well enough with the rest, and that
by the thursday following he questioned not but they would
be executed, and such words he uttered in the presence of
M^r Thomas Mudd and M^r Marshall as I am enformed, if soe