360 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1694 97.

    Lib. H. D.     Willm Burley no otherway's guilty thereof then by being

             prsent at the time tht the sd ifact was committed by the sd

             Woodcock We have thought fit as by these prsents we doe of

             our meer motion and Speciall Grace acquit release and pardon

             them the George Mason and Wm Burley of and from the

             condemnation and murther aforesd and off and ifrom all paines

             penalties convictions attainders corruptions of blood ffor

             feitures & confiscacons that may any wayes be inflicted upon

             them, or they any wayes lyable to for or by reason of the sd

             murther, or their conviction and condemnation thereof hereby

             restoring them to the ffree benefltt of the Law, and Granting

             that they shall be accepted deemed and reputed in all our

             Courts of Justice and else where as capable to all intents and

             purposes as if the sd ifact had never been committed, nor they

             ever convicted thereof.

              At a Councill held at the Port of Annapolis, the 27th day of

             ffebry (being thursday) in the Eighth year of the Reign of our

             Soveraign Lord King William the third &ca Annoq Domini

             1695/6

                       Present

       WhitehallHis Exncy ffrancis Nicholson Esqr Capt Genll &Ca

                            Coll Nicholas Greenberry

                 The honoble Coll John Addison

                            James ifrisby Esqr

             Persons Came Daniell Danielson Nicholas dela Montague,

             Naturalized

             sworn&sub- Harmen Vanboekele Hendrick Sluyter & Jacob

             scribe to Sluyter (persons naturalized by a late Act of Assem

             the Test. bly) and severally tooke the Oaths appointed by

             Act of Parliamt to be taken instead of the Oaths of Allegiance

             & Supremacy and also subscribed to the Test.

             Clk of the In- Came Mr Henry Bonner Clerk of the Indictmts of

      Whitehall dictmts of A: A: Co: Court Ann Arrundell County Court & was sworn accord-

             sworn  ingly.

              Produced & Read a Letter from Mr John Llewellin to his

             Excell sent & directed, Dated the 4th day of ffebry instant,

             therein excusing his non appearance here, pursuant to his

             Exncies Ordrs to make vp the Councill proceedings of his time,

          p. 262     desiring that he might be permitted to carry the papers and

             Minutes down to his own house in St Maries County to pre

             vent the great Charge which would otherwise vnavoidably

             Accrue to him, the which being maturely considered it is

             thought altogether inconvenient & vnflt that his Request be