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

Lib. R. R. R.

Maryl^d ss:
James Bodkin of S^t Maries County in the s^d Province gentl
aged twenty yeares or thereabouts being sworn and exam-
ined deposeth and saith as followeth, that about a muneth
since or neere about that time, he this Dep^t being in Company
with Cap^t Allen Command^r of the Kings Ketch, at the City of
S^t Maries, to the best of his remembrance he heard the said
Cap^t Allen discourse touching his L^sp the R^t hon^ble the Lord
Prop^ry his Charter and Governm^t and that amongst other
thinges he heard the s^d Cap^t Allen say that Coll Talbott, or that
Talbott up the Bay should or would Suffer for what he had
done in the building a ffort up the Bay, and that Penn would
recover the land again or much to that effect; And further
saith that he heard the said Cap^t Allen vse many other dis-
courses and words spoken in a huffing manner which this
Dep^t cannot now well remember, but the substance of them
was to the best of this Dep^ts remembrance, that he the said
Cap^t Allen cared not for his L^sp or Governm^t as to be com-
manded by them, but that he would seize shipps if there were
any there, and carry them away in despight of any person, but
as to his L^sps person he should respect him as a gentl and
otherwise he had nothing to doe with him or the Governm^t or
words to this or the like effect
Jurat coram nobis Dec: 3^d 1684: James Bodkin
Thomas Tailler
Vincent Lowe

p.177

Ordered that a Lett^r be writt to his L^sp giveing him an
Acco^t of the late unhappy murder of M^r Rousby and the pro-
ceedings of this Governm^t thereon, pticularly to recount unto
his L^sp the comportm^t of Capt^r Alien & to send him coppyes
of all Depositions thereto relateing and of the Lett^r sent into
Virginia & my Lord Effinghams answer, notifyeing to his L^sp
that the Depositions of Bodkin, Gayskill, Jones, Mitchell, and
one of Dolberrys has relation onely to matters before the
murder was committed