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those gentlemen of the Governm^t under the Lord Prop^ry in
relation to the prisoner and the Ketch aforesaid
Jurat in Concil 3^d Die Ro: Carvile
Decembris 1684
J Ll. Clk:

And the said Deponent further deposeth that he heard that
there was a warrant issued out by Coll Henry Darnall & Maj^r
Nicholas Sewall directed to the Sheriff of Calvert County (in
which County the Kings Ketch lay) for the apprehending the
body of the s^d Coll George Talbott, and secureing him till he
were delivered by due course of Law, and that after the said
warrant issued wee went aboard the s^d Ketch, and to the best
of this Dep^ts Remembrance, the sayd Coll Darnall or Maj^r
Sewall did tell the said Cap^t that such warr^t was gone out, and
that there would be some psons come on board to demand
the prisoner accordingly
Jurat die et ann Supra diet. Ro: Carvile
J Ll. Clk.

Maryl^d ss
Anthony Underwood aged twenty five yeares or thereabouts
deposeth as followeth
That I the said Anthony was sent for the first day of
November to the house of Christopher Rousby Esq^r and when
I came there, I understood by the said Rousbys Servants that
there Master was killed on board a Ketch then rideing about
two miles within the mouth of Pottuxen River over ag^t the
said Rousby's Landing; which said Ketch This Depon^t was
informed belonged to his Maj^tie our Sovereigne Lord the King,
and that one Thomas Allen was Command^r of the same, on
the morrow being Sunday the said Allen sent a boate to fetch
this Deponent aboard, and this Deponent was carried on board

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in the said boate, and when I came on board the said Ketch, I
saw Coll Talbott most inhumanely loaded with Irons, and
enquireing the reason of the Cap^t he told me he the said
Talbott had killed M^r Rousby on board, and that he was
resolved to carry him for Virginia, to receive his tryall for the
fact there, This Dep^t did then advise Cap^t Allen as his
ffriend to have a care what he did, and further told him that
the prisoner ought to be tryed where the fact was Committed;
upon which discourse came on board the hon^ble Coll Henry
Darnall, and Maj^r Nicholas Sewall two of the Dep^ty Gov^rno^rs
und^r the R^t hon^ble the Lord Prop^ry and did then and there
demand the body of the s^d Talbott in the name of my Lord
Prop^ry to be delivered to them in ord^r to receive his tryall, and
that Justice might be done according to Law, To which Allen

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