142 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1702/3.

            Lib. x.   them in the Ship whereupon Captain Mitchel not being

                 then On Board the Deponent caused some of the Ships Crew

                 to hollow on Shore for him and proposed that whereas the

                 Wind was Southerly that Captain Mitchell should send his

                 Pinnace to Chester to fetch the men Captain Bostock had

                 Lent him who very readily agreed to the Proposal but the

                 said Captain Bostock saying he was a Gentlemn by his Com

                 mission threatning to take three of his best men tho he had

                 thought to take but two & that his Commission would bear

                 him out of it & calling Capt Mitchell Dog and Rogue swag

                 gered & swinging his Cane over his head threatned to

                 crack his Crown and tho the Deponent Offered to the said

                 Bostock that it would be ruinous to the Ship & Cause her to

            p. 314    Lose her convoy which she might Now probably hope to go

                 with provided he did not so Disable her by taking away the

                 chief mate & men he would not hearken thereto but swear

                 ing Damn him Damn him cut him down bad his men throw

                 the mate head foremost & Carried him away with two other

                 men belonging to the said Ship swaggering & hectoring

                 what he would do to the said Mitchell & Ship & that he

                 would if he could but get him into the Bay take both him

                 and his Ship whereupon the Deponent said he hoped the

                 said Bostock would not forget his Commission & Turn Pyrate

                 J urat cor nobis             James Sanders

                       Tho Tench

                        Jno Hammond

             Maryland Annapolis Friday March the 5th 1702/3

                  Then came before the honble the President & Council

                 Capt James Mitchell Commander of the ship Owners

                 Adventure of London now riding in South River in this her

                 Majestys Province and did Solemnly declare in the presence

                 of Almighty God the witness of the Truth of what he said

                 that on Tuesday the 2d Instant One Wallace Mate to Captain

                 Bostock Commander of her Majestys Advice Boat Eagle

                 about six of the Clock in the Evening came on Board his

                 Ship in the Pinnace Belonging to the said Advice Boat

                 together with the Boats Crew who Stiled him Master where

                 upon the Attestant desired him to walk aft & entertained

                 him very kindly till very late between twelve & one of the

            P. 315    Clock as he Believes & then ordered a Bed and Supper in an

                 Ordinary on Shoar by the said Ship to be got ready for the

                 said Wallace who then told the Attestant that he was ordered

                 by Captain Bostock to bring away the two men he had lent

                 him or otherwise the two best men on Board whereupon the

                 Attestant demanded by what Authority & thereupon the said