Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1 746, 373

The Deposition of M^rs Jane Bourdillon aged thirty years
being sworn &c deposeth and saith that sometime the first of
this Instant she heard M^r Thomas Chase call M^r James
Richards Scoundrell and Rascall several times, and that by his
God He would turn him out of his Office as high Sheriff, This
Deponent being asked if ever she had heard M^r Richards to
curse the Royal family at her house or Elsewhere, who an-
swered she did not Taken in the Presence of the abovesaid
Chase & Richards this 29^th of November 1746 before
W^m Hammond

The Deposition of William Payne aged about forty years
who being summoned by the Reverend Thomas Chase to
testify his Knowledge relating to some treasonable Words
spoke by James Richards against his Sacred Majesty King
George and Royal Family being sworn on the holy Evangels
of Almighty God deposeth and saith That he to the best of
his Knowledge never heard the said Richards at any time
curse or damn his Majesty King George & say he was an
Hanover Dog and a Turnip Man, nor never heard the said
Richards say that he wished himself at the head of the French
King or the Pretenders Army that He might drive the Hanover
Son of a Bitch back to his own Country and he further says he
never heard the said Richard drink the Pretenders health, and
he further declares that after the said Chase had rec'd a Letter
from the Governor and telling him the Contents of the same
the said Chase asked the said Payne if he could swear to this on
which the said Payne replyed that he remembered nothing of
any such thing that he laid to M^r Richards Charge on which
the said Chase said that I have heard you say several times
that you could swear to the same, and this Depon^t replyed, if
I did, I was drunk or mad, for I can remember nothing about
It, on which the said Chase replyed, God if you don't I will
swear against you, and get Other Evidence to do the same,
and Richards will ruin you, And he further says that the said
Chase came to this Deponents house after this Deponent had
sworn before Col Hammond that M^r Thomas Craddock had
drank the Pretenders health, on which this Deponents Wife
upbraided the said Chase for not swearing against Cradock
as full as he had often expressed himself, for you know said
she that I have often heard you repeat that He did, On which
the said Chase said, Oh, shaking his head had It been that
Rascall Richards I would have swore black enough against

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him, but you can't blame me to favour my poor Brother
Cradock which the said Chase expressed several times, And
This Deponent being asked by the reverend Thomas Chase
whether he told the said Chase that M^r Richards had cursed the

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