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

          Lib. x.    back the rest bidding them give it to their Wives & told them

               that he looked upon their Kindness every whit as well as well

               as if he had taken their whole Prest

                          Iuly the 12th 1698

                 The Council again Sate present as Yesterday

                 His Excellency being told that Mr Sly had something to

               communicate to him the said Mr Sly is called in

                 Mr Sly says his Excellency is bound in honour to discharge

               him for that he has a warrant for what he has done & produced

               the following Copy of a Record from St Marys Court under

               the Seal of that Court & signed by the Clerk which is as

               follows

                 St Marys County Ianuary the 5th 1696

                 Order of Governor and Council Dismissing Mr Philip Clark

               from practising as an Attorney in the Provincial & County

               Courts

                 Several Minutes taken by Mr Henry Denton Clk of his

               Majestys honble Council being the Sum of what his Excel

               lency was pleased to declare to the Provincial Court in relation

               to Mr Philip Clark being Read in open Court wherein his

               Excellency declared that if any person had a desire to go for

               England & Complain against him if so be the Law would

               permit them to go out of the Province he would permit them

               and give them fifty Pounds Sterling in order to defray their

               Charges

            p. 83    Mr Philip Clark moved the Court that the Clerk might enter

               his Acceptance of his Excellency the GovTs Offer therein & it

               is Ordered by the Court that the Clerk record the Same vizt

                 Mr Philip Clark declares that he will go for England &

               there complain to his Majesty of his Excellency Francis

               Nicholson Esqr Captain General & Governor in chief of this

               his Majestys Province &Ca for that he is debarred from Prac

               tising as an Attorney and thereby hindered from getting his

               Bread

                                         William Aisquith Clk

                 Whereupon the said Mr Sly is told that he is not now Called

               to answer for those Articles preferred against his Excellency

               in England before their Lordships the right Honble the Lords

               of the Council of Trade & foreign Plantations but to what

               should be now objected against him on his Majstys Behalf for

               such misdemeanors as he had lately committed Since his last

               arrival within this Province & that therefore his offering the

               said Declaration had no relation & was altogether Impertinent

               thereto