548 Appendix to Council Proceedings, 1696/7-98.

        P. R. O.   other way than what is directed and agreed in the said Articles

              of Madrid and other Treaties, And you are particularly not to

              grant Comissions of Warr or Reprizalls against any Prince or

              State or their Subjects in amity with Us, to any person what

              soever without our speciall command.

               You are not to admitt or allow of any Appeals whatsoever

              to be made from the Governor and Councill unto the Assem

              bly. But whereas we judge it absolutely necessary that all

              Our subjects may have liberty to appeale unto Us in cases

              that may deserve the same Our Will and Pleasure is that if

              either party shall not rest satisfied with the judgement or sen

              tence of Our Governor or the Cornander in Chief and Coun

              cill, they may then appeal unto Us in Our Privy Councill Pro

              vided the matter in difference exceed the real value or summe

              of £300 sterling and that such appeal be made within one

              fortnight after sentence and security first given by the Appel

              lant, to answer such charges as shall be awarded, in case the

              sentence of Our Governor or Comander in Chief and Coun

              cill in Maryland be confirmed. Provided also that execution

              be not suspended by reason of any such appeal be too fre

              quently and for too small a value brought unto Our Governor

              and Councill. You shall therefore with the advice of the

              Councill propose a Law to be passed wherein the method and

              limitation of Appeals unto Our Govr and Councill may be

              settled & restrained in such manner as shall be found most

              convenient and easy to Our Subjects in Maryland.

               And whereas Richard Rawstone late Deputy Collector of

              the Eastern shore in Our Province of Maryland has repre

              sented by his Petition to Us that having seized two vessels

              which had made no Entry they were unjustly extorted from

              him by means of Henry Darnell & Nicholas Seawell, two of

              the Judges there, and the Petr was imprisoned to his very

              great damage & impoverishmt and therefore humbly praying

              that all Records against him since the year 1685 may be pro

              duced and that he may be reheard thereupon in the Provincial

              Court and in Talbot County Court within Our said Province

              and that he may have liberty to prosecute the said Seawell

              and Darnell for the losses and damages susteined by the PetT

              in this behalfe Our Will and Pleasure is that all actions and

              records against the Petitioner in Maryland since the year 1685

              be produced and that he be reheard according to the Petition

              ers' request thereupon, and that the Petr have liberty to prose

              cute the said Seawell and Darnell for the losses and damages

              he has susteined in this behalfe.

               You shall endeavour to get a Law passed for the restrain

              ing of inhumane severities which by ill masters and Overseers

              may be used towards their Christian servants or slaves, and