536 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1694 97.

     Lib. H. D. Recd damage by them & whether any of the inhabitants of

            that County are gone away to them, and whether they heard

            not that the sd Privateere was Come from Carolina & bound

            to the Red Sea and tht inquiry be made of the Name of the

            Master and of what behaviour they have generally been since

            their Coming there a due Return whereof is to be made

            undr the hand of those tht give any Accot of the afore

            mencon'd things & tht Mr Molls deposition be taken before

            some Magistrate to be sent here by the 8th or 10th of Decem.

            next if possible, or with what convenient Speed you Can.

                                  Signed p Ordr

                                    Hen: Denton C Concil.

       p. 418    By his Exncy the Governr &cca Decem. 1st 1696.

            Ordr abt the Whereas the Church Yard within the Port of

            Churchya Annapolis is Staked round and that part in particular

                   where the Church is to stand being compassed round

            with brush; Ordered that no person whatsoever presume

            either to take away or remove the sd brush from its place, or

            trample upon or Ride over it, but that they ride round it,

            under pain and perill that shall fall thereon, & tht no person

            presume to pull this down from the place it is Affixed to.

                           Signed p Ordr Hen: Denton Cl Concil

         By his Exncy the Governr &cca Decem 2d 1696.

            Severall It is Represented to the Honrd the Justices of the

             provinciall Court how tht upon a late Complaint of

            Exncy to the the honrble Sr Thomas Laurence Barront Secretary of

             this Province in Relation to Mr Henry Wriothesley

            Court. Chief Clerk of the Court Setting forth tht no

            Judgmts (there passed) had by him been Entred up since

            Novr last was a Twelmonth; upon which his Exncy upon

            further Examination into the matter thought it absolutely

            necessary for his Mats Service and the Good of the Countrey

            to put the sd Wriothesley into the Custody of the Sherriff øf

            Ann Arrundell County, with caution not to Suffer him to go

            from without the Limits of the Town untill he had perfected

            and made up his sd Records &cca with Ordr likewise to the

            Severall provinciall Court Attorneys for their personall ap

            pearance at this Court in Ordr to inspect that matter & par

            ticularly those judgmts wherein they have been actually con

            cern'd as by the respective Ordrs remaining with the high

            Sherriff and the Severall Attorneys may more at large

            appear—It is now thought Expedient that the Wriothesley