Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1681-85/6. 185

January the 21^th 1683:
Then came William Simpson and Mary his wife before me
William Digges Esq^r and voluntarily made Oath, that Thomas
Carvile sometime before his Escape from the Sheriff of S^t
Maries County his custody, told the s^d William and Mary that
his L^spp (the R^t hon^ble the Lord Prop^ry meaneing) was not fitt
to govern the people of this Province, and that the Tower
of London was a more fitt place for him, then the place where
he was, and further the s^d Carvile then said that his said L^sp
was an old papist Rogue, which words he the s^d Carvile did
utter Speake and declare before his s^d Escape, and since his
returne, And these Dep^ts further depose that the said Carvile
at the tymes aforesaid, did propose, urge, and abett the said
William Simpson secretly to burn William Cheshires houses,
saying that he might doe it privately, and it would never be
knowne, And the s^d Dep^t further depose that after the returne
of the s^d Carvile from Virginia this Dep^t William asked him
the occasion of his running away, he replyed that it was for
feare, that the s^d Mary should divulge the afores^d Expressions
soe spoken by him as aforesaid, And the said Deponents
further declare, that since their Committment to the Sheriffes
custody upon suspition of ffelony the said Carvile sent to the
s^d Mary (as the Messenger told them) to charge her not to
reveale or discover any of the words or discourse that he had
formerly spoke to her, but to be sure to keepe it very private,
And the s^d Mary further deposes, that the s^d Carvile further
said, that the Governo^r (his L^sp: the Lord Prop^ry meaneing) and
his Rogues were the cause of M^rs Coodes death. And the s^d

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Mary replyed that my Lord did nothing in it, Carvile replyed
that he (his said L^sp meaneing) was the greatest rogue of them
all, and swore God damne him (his s^d L^spp meaneing) was like
Cromwell, sent his Rogues before, and stayed behind himself:
And the Dep^t Mary further deposes, that Mary the wife of the
said Carvile told her this Dept that she had been at Notley
hall, to make her Complaint to my Lady (The R^t hon^ble the
Lady Baltemore meaneing) where the said Carviles wife said
was her Ladyshipp, and M^rs Doyne, and that immediately after
M^rs Doyne goeing out of the Roome, she the said Carviles
wife told her s^d Ladyship, that her husband had received
much wrong and injustice at the Provinciall Court done him
there, and that p^rsently after the s^d M^rs Doyne comeing again
into the Roome where her La^pp and the s^d Carviles wife was,
her L^spp: told M^rs Doyne the said Carviles wife had complained
of Injustice done her husband at the Provinciall Court, And
this (said the s^d Carviles wife) was all the redress the old

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