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

          Lib. x.    Years Since filed in the Commissarys Office a full Acct of the

               Estate of the said Doyns & that Mr Gilbert Clark Attorney of

               the said Captain Phippard altho often cited had never appeared

               to make his Objections thereto

                 Whereupon his Excellency is pleased to say that Such Re

               flections offered by the said Mr Clark are of great Scandal to

               this his Majestys Government therefore upon proof, Orders

               his Majestys Lawyers to prosecute the said Clark for such his

               Slandering this Government as aforesaid

                 Ordered that now the Sickness is pretty well over the Sev

               eral field Officers do train & muster their ‘I'roops & Corn

               panys and Send his Excellency a List of them Especially the

               four hundred new raised men

                 Ordered that Mr Richard Beard give a full & Ample Accot

               of what Arms Ammunition &Ca he rec'd

                 Then read his Majestys Proclamation forbidding persons

               who have been in the Service of the French King or King

               James to come into England without leave first obtained &

               this Board considering that several such Persons may come

               into this Province under mean Circumstances as Servant &Ca

               Ordered therefore that the said Proclamation be published in

               the several & respective Countys of this Province

                 His Majestys Proclamation against Prophaneness & Im

               morality read & Ordered that the several Sheriffs publish the

               same in their Several Countys that the Minister read one of

             p. 59 them at the County Court before Prayers after which the Said

               Proclamations are to be delivered to the Clks of the Vestrys

               of each Parish by them to be published

                 Thought fit that a request be made to the Right honble the

               Lords of the Council for Trade & Foreign Plantations that

               when they send any printed Proclamations in, they will be

               pleased to send Enough for the Eleven Countys the Inhab

               itants giving more regard to such then written ones

                 Capt John Hans Tilman an Indian Trader att the head of

               the Bay being asked Concerned the Indians that live there

               what Nations they are, he says they are Chauhannauks Sus

               quehannahs & Delaware that the Chauhannauks are about

               forty men & live at a Town fifty miles of his house the Sus

               quehannahs are about Fifty men live two miles further up at

               Caristaugua & Came from the Seneques

                 That the Delawares live at white Clay Creek are about forty

               men

                 Captain Hans being Asked whether the Susquehannahs

               live in this Province says they live about thirty Miles above

               Octerara Creek.

                 And that their King having been lately taken by the Naked

               Indians Intends according to his promise to go back to the said