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

Lib. R. R. R. At a Councill held at the City of S'Maries the 27^th day of
ffeb^ry Anno Dmi 1684:

	The honble	Coll Thomas Taillor Coll Henry Darnall Coll Wm Burges Majr Nicholas Sewall Majr Thomas Trueman	Present

The Sheriff according to his precept, hath before this board
Roger Skreene, and Richard Keene, And the said Richard
Keene being Examined saith

That when he first mett with Roger Skreene in Hungar
River, he asked him he came thither, the said Roger answered
he was putt ashoare at M^r Henry Hoopers, He the Examin^t
then asked him where Mad^m Talbott was, he answered she
was gone up the Bay home to her owne house, This Exami-
nant further asked him how he expected to have his pay, He
answered he was to have it of Coll Darnall and Maj^r Sewall or
one of them, and that Mad^m Talbott had promised him a hhd
of Tobacco more then Ordinary to putt ashoare at Hoopers
Island, The Deponent then enquired of him what news of
Coll Talbott, To w^ch he replyed that he had not been within
Twenty miles of him, neither knew he anything of him, but
falling into further discourse he sayed he knew the Coll would
never come to a tryall, The Examinant asked him how he
p. 188 knew that for he must of necessity come to a tryall though he
were pardoned afterwards, The said Roger replied he did
know it, and neither man woman nor Child should know it,
but those that knew it already.

The said Richard Keene is dismissed, and the said Roger
also

At a Councill held at the City of S^t Maries the second day
of March Anno Dmi. 1684:

Coll Thomas Taillor

Coll Vincent Lowe

The hon^ble J Coll Henry Darnall Present
Coll W^m Digges
Coll W^m Stevens
Maj^r Nicholas Sewall

To the hon^ble the Dep^ties and Commission" by his L^spp:
appointed under the hon^ble Benedict Leonard Calvert Esq^r his
L^tt Gen^ll and chiefe Govern^r of this Province