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      ordered the Deponent to bring a Boat to Carry him up to Lib. X.

      Slys and when he came to Slys house, Sly said Honest Robin

      I am glad to See you, be not afraid of the Governor for he

      would protect him or words to that effect that some time in

      the Last month Mr Philip Clark bad the Deponent not be

      afraid of the Govt as long as he saw him stand and said that

      the Deponents father was a Good honest Planter & did

      believe as good a man as the Governor

        Collo Henry Mitchell Deposeth that meeting Mr John Cood

      Sent at Mr Gerrard Slys in St Marys County the said Cood

      then in Company with Mr Philip Clark & several others did

      say that he would not have Nicholson take him for such a Fool

      to stay in Maryland when he might go where he was Safe.

        Upon which said Depositions & several Informations of the

      wicked illegal & Disloyal practices used & endeavoured by

      the said John Cood Gerrard Sly his Son in Law Robert Mason

      Philip Clark and others his Associates his Majestys Council

      at Law to whom the same were Referred do Report the same

      are Mutinous & Seditious & do tend to the raising Rebellion p. 57

      within this Province & the Subversion of his Majestys Govt

      here Legally Established

        Whereupon it is Considered & advised that a Wart issue

      from this Board to apprehend the said Sly, Cood Mason and

      Clark & others their Associates Confederates & Abettors and

      to bring them before his Excellency the Governor & his Maj

      estys honble Council on Thursday next being the Seventh

      Instant & accordingly Such Warrant was prepared & Signed

      by his Excellency the Governor and the Gentlemen of his

      Majesty honble Council & was directed to Lieut Colo Henry

      Low high Sheriff of St Marys County

        Ordered that Summons be sent for the Several Persons

      then to Appear here which are named in the depositions

      already taken & supposed to be knows of Some of the ill

      Designs & Practices of the said Cood, Sly, Mason & Clark

        Read a Letter to his Excellency the Governor from Captain

      William Phippard begging his Excellencys favour in some

      Law Concerns he had in this Province with George Plater &

      Ann his Wife Executrix of Mr Robt Doyne Deceased for that

      Mr Gilbert Clark his Attorney had wrote to him, the said

      Plater was so Boy'd up with Favour & so Great in this Gov

      ernment that altho he had Obtain'd Judgment he could have

      no benefit thereof

        Thereupon his Excellency was pleased to send for Kenelm

      Cheseldyn Esqr Commissary General & Judge for Probat of

      Wills &Ca & the said Esqr Plater to whom the aforesaid Letter

      was referred to make Answer thereto

        Who do answer and say that the said Plater has above two p. 58