98 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1736.

Lib M.

Misbehaviour It is ordered by this Board that the Attorney
General prosecute the said Charles Worthington according to
Law

The following Papers were laid before this Board by his
Excellency

Baltimore County
Miles Foy of Baltimore County Wool comber aged about
Sixty two years being sworn on the holy Evangelists of
Almighty God, deposeth and saith, that about a fortnight ago
he this Deponent being imployed in his Trade of a Wool
comber by a Certain Elisha Gatchell One of the Justices of
the Peace in and for Chester County in the Province of Pensil-
vania, the said Elisha Gatchell begun a Discourse or Con-
versation about the seating of some Lands under the Authority
of the Lord Proprietary of Maryland, which the said Gatchell
pretended were not within the fortieth Degree of Northern
Latitude, and the said Gatchell not only used many reflecting
Expressions and Words against the Lord Baltimore, but partic-
ularly affirmed and declared that the Lord Baltimore before
the forty Days were expired after the Parliament, was runaway
or gone over to France to prevent his Body or his Estate being
sequestred And that he the said Gatchell had such Account
from M^r Penn One of the Proprietors now in the Province of
Pensilvania, who (as the said Gatchell affirmed) had received
a Letter to that Purpose from England.
Sworn before me the Subscriber One of his Lordships Jus-
tices of the Peace for Baltimore County this 7^th Day of Octo-
ber Anno Dom. 1736
Nat: Rigbie
Maryland ss
Elizabeth Low of Baltimore County Wife of John Low aged
about thirty Eight years deposeth and saith, that she and her
husband have lived about five years at Conojoholah under the
Governm^t of Maryland, that they have constantly paid the
forty p Poll to the Minister of their Parish, and all the other
Taxes paid by the Inhabitants of Baltimore County that of late
they have been much terrified by the Pensilvanians, who have
often threatened to take them and carry them to Prison unless
they would turn Tenants to the Proprietors of Pensilvania ;
And this Deponent further deposeth & saith that they live in
continual fear of some Mischief being done them, for no other
Reason but that they refuse to hearken to the Proposals that
the Pensilvanians are daily making them And this Deponent
likewise saith that on or about the thirteenth of this Instant
October she heard that many men in Arms were in the Woods