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       estys Behalf for uttering & speaking blasphemous Expressions Lib. X.

       &Ca Contrary to the Act of Assembly of this Province hereof

       fail not at your Peril & have you there this writ Witness Rob

       ert Smith Esqr Chief Justice of our said Court the 5th day of

       October Anno Dni 1696

                                Hen Wriothesley Clk

             William Dent Sollr General          p. 115

       Maryland ss

        John Cood late of St Marys County Gent was Summoned

       to answer unto Geo Plater Esqr Attorney Genl of this Province

       who &ca prosecuteth for our Lord the King of a plea that he

       render his reasonable Accot for the time that he was receiver

       of the Kings money which to Render he ought

        And whereupon Geo Plater Attorney General aforesaid who

       for our Lord the King prosecuteth saith that whereas the said

       John Cood was & stood receiver of our Lord & Lady the

       King & Queen that then were at Wicocomico River in St

       Marys County aforesaid from the 20th of September 1689 to

       the 16th of August in the Year of our Lord 1690 then next

       ensuing & had the Care & Collection of divers Sums of

       money due and payable, to our said Lord & Lady the King &

       Queen that then were & by the time aforesaid did receive our

       Bill of Exco of Joseph Norcotts for Six Pounds Seventeen

       Shillings, Bills of Exco of Samuel Gillams for fifteen pounds

       nine Shillings and four pence, Bills of Exco of Abraham

       Fifields for nine pounds Fifteen Shillings & four pence, Bills

       of Exco of Mark Whitson for nineteen pounds fourteen Shil

       lings, Bills of Willm Wraxall for Fifty nine pounds fifteen

       Shillings, Bills of Ino Walker for Eighteen pounds sixteen

       Shillings, Bills of John Howells for Sixty pounds six shillings &

       eight pence, Amounting to one hundred & ninety pounds

       thirteen Shillings & Four pence, more Bills of William Brown

       ings for twenty Nine pounds Seventeen Shillings & four pence, p. 116

       Bills of Gilbert Livesy for twenty five pounds three Shillings

       & Six Pence Bills of Richard Robins for ninteen pounds two

       shillings & four pence Sterl in all amounting to two hundred

       Sixty four pounds sixteen Shillings & six Pence also Bills of

       Exco of Thomas Gravers driwn on Captain Hopes for Ben-

       dali & Mr Robert Warner Mercht in London for Fifty nine

       pounds eighteen shillings & four pence three Bills of Caleb

       Tilleys drawn upon Mr Henry Cane & Company owners of

       the Ship of Peace of Plymouth for fifteen pounds fourteen

       shilling & eight Pence, Bills drawn by John Clark on Alder

       man Thomas Johnson Mercht in Liverpool for seven pounds

       Six Shillings, Bills of Thomas Leach's drawn upon Mr John

       Smith & Compa Merchts in Biddeford for Nineteen pounds