Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1702.     133

   Mr Le Count says that by the new act for Establishing Religion Lib. X.

   the said Minister had been suspended from one of the said

   Parishes & further that his Habitation was in Choptank Parish

   but being told that he mistook the act of Assembly as not

   retrospicient they promise for the future to take care exactly

   to comply with their Duty & are ordered to withdraw

     This Board having well Considered the said Complaint &

   finding the said Vestry had not wherewith to Justify their

   irregular proceedings against their Minister what they

   alledged being altogether mistake & Ignorance in the Law

   yet upon their promise of endeavouring what in them Lyes

   to comply with their Dutys in their Stations were remitted

     But this Board Considering what Great charge Trouble p. 300

   and Expence they had put Mr Howell to in coming several

   times over the Bay for his reasonable Relief & Redress of

   the injury they had offered him Order that the said Mr John

   Le Count Hezekiah Mackey & Robert Steward do pay unto

   the said Mr Thomas Howell the sum of Eighteen hundred

   pounds of Tobacco towards Satisfaction of the great Cost &

   Charge they have put him to

     And they being called in the said Order was read to

   them

     Then was read Mr Gabriel D'Emillian Minister of Nan

   gemy & Port Tobacco Parishes Representation

     To their Honours the President & Council for the Province

   of Maryland now assembled

   May it please your Honours

     Gabriel D'Emilliane Minister of Nangemy & Port Tobacco

   Parishes in Charles County your Honours most humble Peti

   tioner does humbly represent that the Aforesaid Parishes

   being not able to give him a competent Subsistence as having

   the Charge of a Family & having Experienced that the said

   Revenue is not Sufficient to supply him with necessarys

   whereby he hath been obliged to Run in debt thirty three

   Pounds in one year tho he was Reduced next to a starving

   condition with his Family the last Summer

     Therefore your Honours most humble Petitioner to Avoid

   the bad Consequences of running further into Debt & being

   advanced in years & sickly not fit now to undertake the

   Planting Trade or other things Conducing to Better his

   Circumstances and having received since his Coming into p. 301

   this Province none of the helps Promised in England to Min

   isters residing in small Parishes nor the Advantage of two

   Blacks Granted to his Glebe which he was to have at his

   first coming into Nangemy Parish the Bill which he had drawn