488 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1696/7 98.

           Lib. x.   by my Warrant theirin mentioned directed to all Sheriffs in

                Virginia to apprehend the said John Cood wherever he should

                be found in this Governmt & him to deliver to Mr William

                Ockman the person sent by your Excellency or to any other

                that should be Authorised from your Govt & if your Excellency

                has been informed that Cood was here, I can give no Greater

            p. 123   authority then that warrant Contains by which he might have

                been taken up if it had been prosecuted

                 And as for Mr Sly & others I find your Excellency upon the

                advice of the Lawyers to whom it was referred has issued a

                warrant to the Sheriff of St Marys County for bringing them

                before you & the Council for Examination but not that they

                fled from Justice or other proceedgs or Proclamations warrant

                ing the taking them up Elsewhere

                 I shall be always ready to assist your Excellency for Sup

                port of his Majestys Government of Maryland & to prevent

                Combinations & other offences here against your Excellency

                or any other in Authority in your said Govt

                                     Your Excllcys humble Servant

                 Governor of Maryland         E: Andros

           P. R. O.

             [Letter of Gov. Nicholson to Board of Trade.]

           [Board of Trade. Maryland. Papers. Bundle. C.]

                                       Maryland port

                                         Annapolis Augst 20. 98

                May it please yor Lordps

                 I hope in God that long before this the honourable Sr Tho:

                Laurence Brt his Majestys Secretary of this Province, hath

                waited upon yor LordPs & prsented to you the Journals and

                publick papers &c. with a letter of the 28th of May last, wch I

                did my self the honour of writing to yor Lordps as allso that

                wth yor leave he hath given yor Lordps a just and full account

                of all the affairs concerning this his Majestys Province; as aliso

                of the neighboring Governments in relation to this.

                 I am humbly to beg yor Lordps pardon, that the Journals

                and other publick Papers, which I now humbly transmit to yor

                Lordps are not written upon such paper as yor Lordps sent: for

                it did not come time enough, only for the last journal of Coun

                cil; which I hope is according to yor Lordps directions: and

                for the future what is to be sent to yor LordPs shall be written

                on that paper, or other ruled like it (for I have given and sent

                Copys of yor Lordps Directions therein, to all publick officers)

                but hope we shall never want it, because I have sent to Engld..

                for 12 Ream.