374 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1746.

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King for a Hanover Son of a Bitch and Turnip man to which
the said Payne answered he did not think proper to answer
the same, On which the said Chase insisted that Payne should
declare whether he had told him that M^r Richards cursed the
King as af^d and the said Payne still refusing to answer alledg-
ing that It was an improper Question and further said that
he could very easily give an Answer but he would not. Taken
in Presence of the Rev^d Thomas Chase and James Richards
Esq^r this first Day of December 1746 before
Cha Ridgeley

The Deposition of M^rs Elizabeth Payne aged about thirty
one Years who being sworn on the holy Evangels of Al-
mighty God who being asked by the Reverend Thomas Chase
whether She ever heard M^r James Richards curse his Majesty
King George, or say any disrespectful Words of his present
Majesty or any of the Royal Family, who deposeth and saith
on her Oath aforesaid that she never did
And the said Elizabeth Payne being asked by M^r James
Richards whether She never heard M^r Chase tell her hus-
band that if he did not swear to what he had alledged against
Mr. Richards he would get the said Richards to prosecute
him and turn Evidence against him, on which she answered
she heard her Husband say so of M^r Chase but had never
heard the said Chase say any such thing her self, And the said
Elizabeth Payne being further asked by the said Richards that
after M^r Chase had swore before M^r William Hammond relating
to the Reverend Thomas Craddock's drinking the Pretenders
health, She answered that sometime after the said Chase came
to her house, on which this Deponent declares that she said
to the said Chase that she was surprized that he swore so
favourably relating to Mr. Craddocks Affair, for she told him
that she had often heard the said Chase repeat that M^r
Cradock had drunk the Pretenders health, On which he an-

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swered Oh, if It had been against that Rascall Richards I
would have sworn black enough against him, but You can't
blame me to favour my poor Brother Craddock, and she
being further asked by the said Chase who was present when
he said so, she answered that there was not any Body but her
Husband and further saith not.
Taken in the Presence of the Reverend Thomas Chase and
James Richards Esq^r this I^st day of December 1746
Cha^s Ridgeley

The Deposition of Doctor William Lyon aged about
Twenty Eight years who being sworn on the holy Evangels
of Almighty God deposeth and saith He being asked by the