Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1694 97. 431

    also during the Governmt of his Excell Lyonell Copley Esqr his Lib. H. D.

    Ma” late Governr in Chief of this province; the Record being

    made vp answerable thereto; for your petr did not in the least

    question that any Error could have been committed by him in

    following that Rule, untill the Assembly had considered an Al

    teration therein, which they have not yet done, notwithstanding

    your petr did lay before the House (at their own instance) a

    List of ffees, by the Rule & practice aforesd taken; Your Petr

    therefore does submissively hope for & beg that a favourable

    construction may be put vpon all these Matters & his Request

    Answer'd in confirming, what in matters of Appeal &ca has

    before been past, and in suspending the aforementioned Ordr

    for the present Regulating of the ffees of both Courts, as is

    afore promised, & your Pet' as in duty bound,

                                Shall Ever pray &Ca

          By his Exncy the Govern' & Councill &Ca

                   May the 18th 1696.

      Ordered (at the Request of the Petr) that the ffees due to him

    as Clerk of the Speciall Commission of Review, as also the

    ffees due to him vpon Appeals & Writs of Error brought be

    fore this Board, be left in suspense & nothing taken by the

    petr vntill such time as the Genll Assembly of this province do

    declare by a Law what ffees shall be taken for the same, and

    that a former Ordr of this Board therein, be at present sus

    pended, according to the prayer of the petr

                   Signed p Ordr Hen: Denton Cl Concil.

      Produced by his Exncy to the Board a letter by him lately

    Received from the honobl Sr Thomas Lawrence Baronet Sec- p. 343

    retary of this Province giving an Account of a most horrid &

    barbarous conspiracy intended against his Mats sacred person, Whitehall

    and of the happy discovery of the same; Ordered that Mr

    Speaker with what Members of the House of Burgesses are

    now in lown together with the Chief Justice of the Provinciall

    Court be sent for to Attend this Board, that the same may be

    imparted vnto them, that the true Report thereof may by them

    be dispersed throughout the province for fear of false Reports;

    who accordingly came vp & the sd Letter was Read

    vnto them.

                   May the 19th 1696.

        The Councill again Sate & were prsent as before.   Whitehall

    The Lord, Produced & Read a Letter by his Excellency

    latingto the Recd from Whitehall signed by Eight of the Right

    Conspiracy honoble the Lords of his Mats most honoble privy

    read Councill of the 10th of March past signifying his Mats