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        Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1696/7-98. 451

   

      Mr Sly says Philip Clark will prove eight of the Articles Lib. X.

    but does not think himself Obliged to prove them p. 70

      Read the 2d Article to which Sly says he is not Obliged to

    prove here is asked to name his Evidence but does not

      Read the third Article about imposing 6d p hhd on Tobacco

    brought from Virginia

      Sly says the Copy of his Excellencys Order thereon is with

    Mr Secretary Vernon

      4th Article Sly Says the Copy of the Proclamation will

    Serve to prove it & as to his Excellencys saying his Interest

    was so strong that none would be heard against him, Sly says

    Cood has proof of it by great men his Excellency made use of

      As to the 5th Article Sly says Collo Cood says he Can

    prove it

      6th Article, the Grants of Commission &Ca Sly says he can

    prove that Article in the case of Rogers & him

      7th Article he keeps the Assembly on foot &ca Sly says he

    cannot prove that Article but there are them that will

      8th Article he Causes new Members to be Elected &ca Sly

    says that several Papists Elected Captain Henry Smith of St

    Marys County

      9th Article that he prosecutes & disturbs all them that are

    truly Loyal &Ca Sly says that Collo Good will prove that

      To the 10th Article Sly says that Mr Secry Vernon has that

    order

       11th Article he presses horses contrary to Law &ca Sly says p. 71

    Collo Good has the papers to prove it

      Came Captain Richard Hill who was admd

       12th Article about Annapolis his Excellency is pleased to

    take Notice of the Word Annapolis & does Say he knows

    Slys drift therein but that at the same time there was another

    Town & Port named William Stdt

      13th Article about Churches &ca Sly says there is a Church

    built upon his Land ready to tumble down before finished

      Whereupon his Excellency tells him he is a good Evidence

    against Cood who built that Church there, before his Excel

    lency came to this Government, the said Cood being a Vestry

    man of that parish & did not only cheat the Parish therein

    but likewise runaway with 15000 b of Tobacco of the fourty l

    p poll belonging to that Parish

      Mr Sly is asked if he has anything to say to the other

    Churches to which Sly says there is one built on Westwood

    Manor, & it is answered without his Assistance, Care had

    been taken therein & that his Excellency had recommended

    to the Assembly who had made a Law to Secure the Land to

    that Church

      14th Article Misapplys the 40 l Tobacco p Poll & Defrauds

   



 
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