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      named Psons or others we declare & Protest that we are not C. P.

      willing to be transported in manner afd Unless the same be

      really & truly legall & Sufficient and wheresoever the said

      Commission or Ordr shall be found insufficient to the Effect

      afd in any action or actions that may hereafter be maintaind agt

      the said Prisoners & others for such their Illegal transporta

      tion of us We do protest that then & in tht Case may be

      lookt upon in Construction of Law as unwilling and forceable

      transported and we do Protest further that we in no ways

      receed from our Petition formerly sent by us to his Majesty

      praying Transportation and lastly we do Protest that the

      Agreemt or bargain made by us with the aid Psons or any of

      them or others for our good usage in our Transportation and

      for our liberty at end of our voyage shall not debarr us from

      maintaining an Action or Actions agt all or any the afore

      named psons and others for their illegal transporting of us

      and such others as adhere to this our Protestation and we Pro

      test in manner afd that any such bargain made was only for

      preventing the severities we justly apprehended might be Ex

      ercis'd on us on Ship board dureing our voyage and for

      preventing Imprisonmt & Confinemt in those parts to which

      we are to be transported both which were threatned by the

      aforenamed Psons & Contraveeners of the said Act in Case

      of our refusall to make Agreemt with them for Civill Usage

      and liberty at the end of our Voyage

                                     John Chalmers.

        Resolved and Ordered that a proclamation Issue declaring

      whosever setts free any of the afd Rebbells transported into

      this Province shall give security for their abideing within this

      Province and be of good behaviour for the Term of Seaven

      years as follows.

      Maryland ss.

           By his Excellency the Capt Genll &c.

                      A Proclamation

        Whereas there has been transported into this Province by

      his Majtys Royall Comand fifty five psons most of them Scott

      men taken in the late rebellion at Preston & imported in

      the Ship the Good Speed of Liverpool whereof Arthur

      Smith is Comander concerning whom his Majty has been

      graciously pleased to Signify to me by letter from the right

      honble James Stanhope Esqr One of his Principall Secretarys

      of State dated at Whitehall the fourth day of May last that

      it was his royall pleasure that the rebbells so taken & Im

      ported as afd should either enter into Indentures to serve such