88 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1735.

Lib. M.

Brown and William Baker or Either of them and when they
or Either of them shall be so taken and apprehended him or
them forthwith to carry before One of his Lordships Justices
of the Provincial Court to be dealt with according to Law,
and as a Reward and Encouragem^t for taking and apprehend-
ing the said Edward Smoot Samuel Smith James Armstrong
John Powell Joshua Lowe James Mitchel John Mitchel jun.
John Wilkins Joshua Hitchinbottom Thomas Brown and
William Baker I do hereby promise that the Person or Persons
who shall take or apprehend the said Edward Smoot and
Samuel Smith shall have fifty pounds Current money of Mary-
land for Each of them, and the Person or Persons who shall
take or apprehend the said James Armstrong John Powell
Joshua Lowe James Mitchel John Mitchel jun^r John Wilkins
Joshua Hitchinbottom Thomas Brown and William Baker
shall have Ten Pounds Current money for Each of them, and I
do hereby strictly charge and require the Sherriff of Baltimore
County to make this my Proclamation publick in the said
County as he will answer the Contrary at his Peril Given at
Annapolis this 25^th Day of October in the twenty first year of
his Ldps Dominion Annoq Domini 1735
J Ross Cl Cone.

His Excellency lays before this Board the following Affi-
davit.

Michael Howard of Talbot County Gent maketh Oath upon
the holy Evangels of Almighty God that Edward Fotterell of
the same County Gent came to this Deponents Lodgings the
fifth day of this Instant August and demanded in a most out-
ragious manner a considerable Sum of Money from this Depo-
nent alledging the same to be won at gaming several Years
ago, which this Deponent refused payment of conceiving that
the same was not due in Honour Law or Equity, whereupon
the said M^r Fotterell, having a Sword by his Side and a
Hickory Stick in his hand, worked himself into a most furious
Passion and Madness, and often pressed this Deponent in the
most aggravating Manner to fight him, challenging often this
Deponent so to do, which he absolutely refused, telling the
said M^r Fotterell as he did several Years ago, when he first
claimed the said Money; that he this Deponent would never
pay the same nor a Farthing thereof, unless he could recover
the same by Law and also assuring him very truly, that he this
Deponent, were he minded to fight, had not a Sword fit in any
Respect for such Business, which Sayings and Words to that
Effect, did but exasperate the said M^r Fotterell, telling then
this Deponent that he must get his Horse and ride with him