190   Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1705.

      Lib. C. B. Whereupon it is advised & Resolved that the said Masters

                 will an inteligible person to Virginia and bring an Authentick

                 Copy of the Resolution there taken by the Governour and

                 Councill in Reguard to the Sayling of the Shipping in that

                 Colony if they be there permitted to Sayle the Shipps here

                 will be Imediately cleared and for their better Dispatch to

                 make their Severall reports of their Ladings that the Officers

                 of the Customes may have their Clearings Ready.

                   Edward Mariarte being called in is told that Thô he has not

                 performed what -he promised in takeing Richard Clarke but in

                 reguard to his Excellency Word

          p. 39  It is Ordered he be not further prosecuted for letting Clarke

                 have horse & boate.

                   Collonel Adisons Letter to his Excellency Proposing that

                 the two Partys of Rangers should meet once in twenty days

                 upon the Maine Branch of Patapsico Read and Ordered that

                 Letters be wrote to Coll Addison & Coll Dorsey so to Direct

                 the Said Rangers.

                   Received the Lord Cornburys Letter of the Second of June

                 1705 Acknowiedgeing the Receipt of his Excellencys & that

                 he had directed inquiry to be made at albany among their

                 Senequyrs concerning the Mischeif Supposed to be done here

                 by those Indians and so soon as he had received the Answer

                 he would Write to his Excellency.

                 At a Council held at the Towne and Port of Annapolis,

                 the Eleventh Day of October Anno Dni 1705

                                Present

                      His Excellency the Governour

          p. 40  The honrble Thomas Tench Esqr Coll John Hamond Lt Coll

                 William Holland & William Coursey Esqr

                   Mr James Keech appearing at this Boarde pursuant to a

                 Somons to that Purpose Copys of Divers Letters by him wrote

                 to Coll Nicholson & Mr Peregrine Cony of the 26th of ffebry

                 1704 Sent from his Excellency Coll Nicholson Governour of

                 Virginia to his Excellency Coll Seymour were read at the

                 Board wherein the Said James Keech did most notoriously

                 reflect on the Present Constitution of this Government seem

                 ing in a very Extraordinary manner to Espouse the Cause of

                 one Henry Gerard a Runagado Romish Preist who presumed

                 to Lybell his Excellency the Governour and Stuck not in a

                 most Scandalous manner to call in question the whole Govern

                 ment as protectors and ffavourers of papists. And the said