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Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, \ 737. 123
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Present
His Excellency Samuel Ogle Esqr Governor
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Lib. M.
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The
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Benjamin Tasker Esqr
Philip Lee Esqr
Michael Howard Esqr
George Plater Esqr
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Edmund Jenings Esqr
James Hollyday Esqr
Col Charles Hammond
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To His Excellency Samuel Ogle Esqr Lieutenant General
and Commander in Chief in and over the Province of Mary-
land
The Petition of Matthew Cohune
Humbly Sheweth
That your Petitioner being a young Man, and but in
indifferent Circumstances, having had some Difference with a
Certain Mr George Robins, One of his Lordship's Justices of
the Peace fur Talbot County about their Dealings, the said
George Robins then threaten'd to remember him; That the
said Robins afterwards upon a Dispute between your Peti-
tioner and a certain James Sutton, Your Petitioner being
by Virtue of a Warrant taken before the said Robins, the
said Robins gave Judgment against your Petitioner without
hearing your Petitioners defence, or examining his Evidences,
although your Petitioner told him that he had a Certain Mr
Robert Lloyd for an Evidence who was not then present, and
who, he apprehended would fully clear up the Debate in favour
of your Petitioner; and actually then another Evidence ready
to testify for your Petitioner at the house of the said Robins
then attending, whom the said Robins insulted and threat-
ened in these Words (You are a noisy Fellow, and I'l send
You to the Place you belong to, which Your Petitioner under-
stood to the County Goal) for no other Reason or Provocation
but that the said Person told the said Robins, that he was
called upon to testify in behalf of your Petitioner. That the
said George Robins hath at divers times threatened and insulted
your Petitioner, and in Order to intimidate your Petitioner
(called upon as an Evidence in a Dispute between a certain
Gilbert Barrow and a Tenant of the said Robins) said; that
your Petitioner was carryed about the Country by the said
Barrow to swear to any thing right or wrong, and by Way of
Insult told your Petit' he would make a Justice of Peace of him,
and calling him Irish Rascall in Order to provoke your Petitr
as he apprehends to make a Breach of the Peace, or to drop
some Expressions against the said Robins as a Magistrate that
might give Occasion for a Prosecution, that the said Robins in
pursuance of his Malice laboured with the greatest Violence
to procure an Information of Forgery to be exhibited against
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