Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1681-85/6. 331

Ketch then lay for the apprehending and takeing into safe
custody the body of the murderer, to the end he might be pro-
ceeded against according to Law, which warrant this Depo-
nent did see, and very well knoweth was sent out. And
further at p^rsent saith not
Jurat in Concil die et John Llewellin
ann. Supra diet
J Ll. Clk.

Robert Carvile of S^t Maries County in the Province of
Maryland aged ffourty Eight yeares & upwards sworne and
examined deposeth and saith as followeth That upon Sunday
the second day of November instant this Deponent was
requested by the hon^ble Coll Henry Darnall & Majo^r Nicholas
Sewall to goe along with them together with M^r John Llewel-
lin on board of a Ketch in Pottuxen River which was called
his Maj^ties Ketch; and whereof Capt. Allen was then Com-
mand^r and on board of w^ch Ketch was kept prisoner in Irons
Coll George Talbott for the murder of M^r Christopher Rousby
as was then reported, that accordingly this Deponent did
waite upon their Hono^rs Coll Darnall and Maj^r Sewall on
board, that being come aboard Coll Darnall and Maj^r Sewall
were Invited into the Capt^s Cabbin, and not long after this
Deponent was also invited into the same Cabbin That after
some relation made by Cap^t Allen touching the manner of the
ffact committed by Coll Talbott on the body of M^r Christopher
Rousby by a stabb with a skeene or dagger then produced,
this Deponent heard Coll Darnall in the p'sence of M^r Sewall
and others in the Cabbin demand of the s^d Cap^t Allen the
said Coll Talbott to be delivered under a good or safe guard
of Cap^t Allens ashore to the Governm^t of the Province, to be
secured and tryed according to Law; and this Coll Darnall
demanded of Cap^t Allen in the name of the R^t hon^b1' the Lord
Prop^ry but Cap^t Allen absolutely refused to deliver him the
said Coll Talbott upon any command in the name of the Lord
Prop^ry but if they would demand the prisoner in his Maj'^ties
name our Soveraigne Lord the King, he would deliver him,

Lib. R. R. R.

To which it was replyed by Coll Darnall, or Maj^r Sewall or
both, that they could not doe it in his Maj^ties name, though what
they did in his L^dsps name, was by vertue of his Maj'^ies authority
by his grant, which was then produced in print, and tendred
to the Cap^t to read, but he sayd he had scene read or knew
the same already Cap^t Allen say'd he would carry him to Vir-
ginia, and there receive ord^rs from my Lord Effingham his
Chiefe Master in these parts, as he sayed, or to that effect was
the discourse amongst them. Then this Deponent doth also
remember there was some discourse urged by Cap^t Allen

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