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his Warrant for apprehending the said McDonnel, in the
following Words
21^st May 1740
Sir

The Governor of Virginia having by his Letter dated the
30^th of last April acquainted his Excellency the Governor that
Hugh McDonnel of Prince Georges County was bound over
by Recognizance by the Court of Prince William County in
Virginia to appear and give Evidence against Joshua Harp
for Horse Stealing and failed to appear upon which the
Prisoner is continued over to the Court of Oyer and Terminer
to be held the second Tuesday in June next And whereas It
is evidently for the Interest and Security of his Majestys Sub-
jects in both Colonies, that the respective Governments should
contribute their Endeavours to bring Offenders to Justice You
are therefore hereby desired and required to issue Your War-
rant against the s^a McDonnel and cause him to be brought
before you and to enter into a Recognisance in a sufficient
Sum to appear at the Court of Oyer and Terminer to be held
at Williamsburg in the Colony of Virginia the second Tuesday
of June next to testify the truth of his Knowledge for his
Majesty against the said Harp

To the Honble Col Levin Gale
Chief Justice of the Provincial Court

His Excellency is pleased to lay before this Board the foll
Depositions

Charles County ss. 3^d March 1739
The Deposition of John Chesley aged about thirty six years
or thereabouts taken before M^r Alien Davis and M^r William
Middleton two of his Lordships Justices for the County afore-
said, he this Deponent saith that he was in Company with a
Certain Charles Craycroft at a Public House in Benedict
Town and taking: the said Craycroft to be in Liquor heard

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him say that the Reason why the Pretender was not Heir to
the Crown, was owing to King James the second abdicated
the Throne of England and an Act of Parliament that hindered
any Papist from being King of England and further saith not
Jn^o Chesley
Alien Davis
3^d March 1739
Sometime January last I this Deponent being at Benedict
Town declares on his Oath that he heard M^r Charles Craycroft
say that if the Spaniards had the same Resolution that he had