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       memoriae &ca as to the property therof to whom of Right they Lib. H. D.

       ought or do belong, therefore humbly Pray that his Maty would

       graciously Please to Send in his Royall Commands thereabt

       & in the matter of the Escheat Office aforementioned.

                   ffebruary the 19th 1696/7.

        Read a Letter recd by his Exncy the Governr from Coll:

       Edmund Jenings his Mats Secryr of the Colony of Virga Dated

       the 24th of JanTY last past together with a Warrant inclosed

       Signed by his Sr Edmd Andros Govr of Virginia for the

       apprehending Coll: John Cood, prosecuted for Blasphemy and

       say'd to bc ffled from the hand3 of Ju3ticc into that Govcrmnt.

        Ordered that his Exncy Sr Edmund Andros be writ to,

       desiring he would please to send one of the sd Warrants to

       Each of the County's within his Governmt with directions and

       Ordrs to the Sherriff that apprehend him for to deliver him up

       to the next Justice of the Peace in this Govermnt Either on the

       Eastern or Western Shore, where he should be taken to the p. 461

       End he may be proceeded agt according to Law and that

       withall it be Signifyed that (for his Mats Service) he would

       give Notice to all Masters of Ships within his Governmt that

       they prsume not to take on Board or Carry away the sd Coll:

       Cood, as also to write another Letter to the Honrble the

       Comodore for to Cause all the Ships under his Convoy to be

       Searcht lest he should be absconded and privately Carried

       away and so Escape unpunished for his Enormous Crime and

       his Maty lose the debt Claim'd from him, for which process has

       already issued.

           The sd Letters follow in these Words, Vizt

          Maryland Port of Annapolis ffebry 19th 1696.

       His ExnCys L Sr

       to Sr Edmd Andros abt This day was Read in Councill here a Letter by

       Sending a me Recd: from Coll: Jenings Dated the 24th of

       Each of the Janry past together with a Warrant, under yor

       County's in EXC ys hand and Seal for apprehending Coll: John

       Cood, and upon Consideracon thereon had it is

               thought Expedient for his Mat5 Service that you

       would please to send one of the sd Warrants to the Sherriff

       of Each County within yor Governmt with directions and

       Orders to the Sherrifi that apprehends him for to deliver him

       up to the next Justice of Peace in this Governmt Either on

       the Eastern or Western Shore where he shall be taken, to the

       End he may be proceeded against according to Law, And