Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1694 97. 289

                 August the 19th 1695.       Lib.H. D.

     Produced at the Board & Read a Proclamation to the said

   Effect wch was signed by his Exncy & passed the Broad Seal of Whitehall

   the Province, The Tenor whereof ffollows in these words Vizt

               By his Exncy the Capt Genll

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   Maryland ss      Proclamation

   Proclamacon Whereas it hath been Signifyed unto me by a

    Letter recd from the honoble John Povey Esqr one of

   oftheQueen the Clerks of his Mats Most honoble Privy Councill

      and Depty Secretary of his Mats Plantations bearing

   cess &ca of date the 9th day of March past how that it hath

   this Province

           pleased Almighty God to take unto him self her late

   Maty Queen Mary (of ever blessed and Glorious Memory) and

   of the Great and irreparable loss is thereby sustained And

   Forasmuch as upon all such Accidents there is a Necessity for

   the Alteracon of the Course and Manner of the Severall pro

   cess and proceedings had & used in the Respective Courts

   &ca I have therefore (by and with the Advice of his Mats honoble

   Councill) thought fit to publish and Make known, And I doe

   hereby accordingly Order & Comand that from hence forward

   & for the future all & all manner of Writts, Writings, precepts,

   & process Whatsoever Judiciall or otherwise issuing forth of

   any his Mats Courts or the Offices &ca within this Province, do

   beare Stile & rufle in the Name of his Maty King William the

   third &ca Willing and Requiring the severall Sherriffes of the

   Province to make Proclamation hereof in the Most publick &

   convenient places within their Respective Counties to wch all

   persons here in any wise concerned are to Yeild all ready and

   due Obedience, as they and every of them will answer the

   Contrary at their perrill Given under the Great Seale of the

   Province this 19th day of August in the 7th Year of his Mats

   Reign Annoq Domi: 1695.

     God Save the King             Fr: Nicholson

   Coll ffletchers Lettr His Signifying his Receipt of a Lettr fro his

   Relating to Exncy Coll Benja Fletcher Governr of New Yorke

   Assistance dated 17th of June last, requiring thereby Assistance

   Province & from this Province of 160 men wth their proper Offi

   Ordr cers towards the Defence of his Mats Province of

   thereon &ca New York in pursuance of her Mats Royall Lettr Whitehall

   bearing date the 22d day of August 1694: Whereupon was

   Ordered to be inspected her Mats said Lettr upon perusall

   whereof there did not appear any Officers therein Mentioned;

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