Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1698.    23

    nuper editas dumodo Vobis ratione Con sanguinitatis Affini-     Lib. X.

    tatis p contractus vel alterius Causae Cujuscumq de lure pro-

    hibite nullum Arnum in ea parte Obsteterit Impediment ne

    ullavis Controversia Seu querela moto Sit vel pendeat Coram

    aliquo Iudice Civili vel Ecclesiastico Cum Allerutro Vrum &

    Ministro Prius Constiterit Vos ad humod Mronij Celebratione

    accedere de et cum Expresso Consensu parentis ac modo

    Mronij Celebratio libere fiat inter horas Octavam & Duo

    decimam ante Merediem Iuxta Ritus Libere publicari prout        p. 179

    Authoritat Parliament in ea parte Edit et Stabilit nec non

    omnibus alijs Christi fidelibus sit Solemnizat Interrestendi ex

    Certis Causis Annis et rationalibus p nos approbat quatenus

    in Nobis est et Iura regni Patiuntur inhac Parte benigne Con

    cedimus et Impertimur p presentes In cujus rei Testimonium

    Sigillum nrum Apposuimus die tertio Octobris 1698

                                     [Sigillum]

                     Peregrine Cony

      Mr Tubman says Mr Cony puts his Seal to it & that he

    himself put in the date

      His Exclcy says he gives Mr Cony no power but as chief of

    the Vestry

      His Excicy tells Mr Tubman that he has heard what he is

    charged with & gives him an hour or two to make his Answer

    in defence thereto

      Mr Tubman says he confesses himself in some respect

    Guilty of what he is accused with but withal says he has no

    wife in England

      The Reverend Mr Benja Nobbs & Mr Hugh Jones being

    sent for came & his Excellency is pleased to request them &

    the rest of the reverend Clergy in Town to take Mr Tubman

    to their chamber & discourse him & give their Opinion for

    the result of this Board thereon

      Then produced & read the following Report of the Revd

    Mr Benjamin Nobbs and Mr Hugh Jones as followeth vizt

      We having as p Order Examined Mr George Tubman

    Clerk do make our Report to your Excellency & honours as

    followeth

      He confesses there is a Woman in England whom he Owned

    as his Wife, has Wrote to, & rec'd from her Letters under

    that Denomination & has desired leave to go & fetch her         p. 180

    hither Under that Title but says she never was his wife & that

    he was never married to any woman but to his wife Elianor

      He acknowledges that he has frequented horse racing he

    confesses he has been Guilty of the Sin of Drunkenness

      He says the License by which he was married to his wife

    Elianor was thus obtained that about easter was a twelve