472 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1727.

            Lib. x.    of your Province I have Caused a Hue and Cry to issue un

                 der the Seal of our Colony for the Apprehension of these

                 Robbers and have directed Thacker to attend your Excellency

                 for such further Process as you shall think proper to issue for

            p. 170     the taking these Felons and Conveying them unto this Gov

                 ernment in Order to their further Prosecution here I have

                 also directed Thacker and his Witnesses to Appear with the

                 Prisoners at their Examination before a Court to be held for

                 that Purpose according to our Law I am

                 To his Excellency    Sir

                 Charles Calvert Your Excellencys most Obedient &

                 Governor of Maryland      most humble Servant

                                                 Robert Carter

                 Virginia

                   Robert Carter Esqr President of his Majestys Council and

                 Commander in Chief of the Colony and Dominion of Vir

                 ginia

                   To all Constables & other Officers & Ministers of our Lord

                 the King to whom the Execution hereof shall belong sendeth

                 Greeting

                   Whereas Richard Thacker late of the Province of Mary

                 land planter hath this day made Oath before me that on the

                 twenty eighth day of April last past at the House of George

                 Yates in the County of King William in the Colony aforesaid

                 he was Assaulted and Robbed of Eleven pieces of Gold (to

                 wit) two Quadruples, Three Moidors, two French Guineas,

                 Two Pistoles one English half Guinea and one half Pistole

                 by Philip Hammond William Hammond and John Howard

                 Inhabitants of the Province of Maryland aforesaid and that

                 they fled for the same and are not yet apprehended These

                 are therefore to Command you forthwith to make diligent

                 search within your Sevl Precincts for the Persons aforesaid

            p. 171     and to make Hue and Cry after them from Parish to Parish

                 and from County to County as well by Horsemen as by

                 Footmen according to Law and if you shall find them or

                 either of them that then you bring them before some one of

                 his Majestys Justices of the Peace for the County where they

                 shall be taken so to be dealt with according to Law And in

                 case they shall have escaped into the Province of Maryland

                 aforesaid or other the Neighboring Governments I do hereby

                 desire and request the Governors and other Officers and

                 Ministers of Iustice therein that they will be aiding and As

                 sisting by their Authority to Apprehend the said Felons and

                 to Convey them to some County in the Colony and Dominion

                 of Virginia aforesd to the end that they may be brought

                 before some Iustice of the Peace of such County to be dealt