Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1696/7-98. 415

       He says that according to the Words as they are there Lib. X.

     Expressed he cannot make Oath but will give his answer p. 34

     thereto what he knows of it in writing.

       14th Article he hath erected a Town in a very ill Remote

     Place of the Province which he hath named Annapolis Where

     he holds the Principal Courts enjoyns all Officers to Live

     their hath put the Countrey to an unreasonable Charge

     thereby to no Purpose & to add the Charge An ill Con

     veniency Ordered all manner of Persons that have Business

     at Common Law or Chancery to Come there on all Occasions

     & also Summoned all manner of Persons bearing any Sort of

     Office to attend there to no Purpose but to Expence &

     Trouble

       The said Mr Clark does Say he knows Nothing of that

     Article

       15th Article Upon every Slight way without any manner of

     Occasion he will send for Persons in Business with threats

     that if they do not immediately attend him he will send for

     them up in Irons & when they do come up to him he has

     nothing to say to them but Sware at them & abuse them with

     his Unreasonable Passion

       The said Mr Clark does say he knows nothing of that

     Article but by hear say & being asked who he heard say so

     does say he cannot pticularly Remember but does think he

     has heard Mr Slye say so

       16th Article he hath put the Countrey to an Unreasonable

     Charge by Building Churches too Big & too Chargeable for

     that Countrey to the great Prejudice of so Good a work &

     upon Land Belonging to Private Persons and in places not

     Proper nor Convenient to build Churches on

       The said Clark says he knows nothing of that Article

       17th Article There is forty Pounds of Tobacco p head setled p.

     on the Church & Clergy throughout the Province which he

     abuseth by not applying it as intended & Orders the Clergy

     to be defrauded to the great Prejudice of Carrying on so

     pious a Work in that Countrey

       To this Article Mr Clark says he knows Nothing of it

       Mr Iames Crawford Attorney at Law being Sent for came

     Whereupon was Produced a Paper Containing Several Articles

     of Charge against his Excellency the Governor which the

     Justices Grand Iury and the several Attorneys Practitioners

     of the Provincial Court had made Answer & Signed & the

     said Mr Crawford being asked why he Refused doing the

     like he makes Answer that he made a Rash Oath to himself

     in the Assembly time that he would not Concern himself

     either the one way or the other With those Articles but being

     Sworn upon the Holy Evangelist before Robert Smith Esqr