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Lib. C. B.

Villain and several bad Names and seemed much prejudiced
against him, from which I really believe all the Difference
proceeds I am
Your Excellencys
Very humble servant
2^d Decem^r 1746. W^m Hammond

Lyde Goodwin of Baltimore County Merchant being a
Person of full Age and worthy of good Credit and being duely
and solemnly sworn on the holy Evangels of Almighty God
deposeth and saith That sometime about the Begining of the
Week before last He this Deponent was at Baltimore Town
in Company with Col William Hammond & the Rev^d Thomas
Chase of Baltimore County and that in Conversation with
those Gentlemen among Other things he heard the said
William Hammond ask the said Thomas Chase what he had
to say or alledge against M^r James Richards of the said
County, in Answer to which the af^d Thomas Chase said that
He had nothing to say against him, for that all the Informa-
tion he had against him was from M^r Pain
Lyde Goodwin
Sworn to before me this 3^d Day
of December 1 746.
W^m Rogers

This Board having taken into Consideration the above Dep-
ositions and Testimonial subscribed by several of the Princi-
pal Inhabitants of Baltimore County in favour of the af^d
Richards are of Opinion that the facts charged upon him in
M^r Chases Letter to the Governor are not supported by any
Proof and appear to them to be groundless and malicious

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At a Council held in the Council Chamber on the 17^th Day
of february in the thirty second year of his Ldps Dominion
Annoq Domini 1746
Present

His Excellency Thomas Bladen Esq^r Governor

Benjamin Tasker Esq^r
Col George Plater
Edmund Jenings Esq^r
Col Charles Hammond

Daniel Dulany Esq^r
Col Benjamin Tasker
Richard Lee Esq^r