168 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1753-1761.

Lib. J. R.
& U. S.

not particularly request or desire me to go or carry Letters,
neither was it at his Sollicitation that I did go back,
q: 10: What sort of a Man was Priest Neale?
Pris: He is a pretty tall, slim Man, of a fair Complexion,
and long Visage generally wore a light Cloth Coat and rid
a good bay Horse.
The Prisoner was afterwards asked many other Questions
& cross examined but as he discovered nothing more than
what is contained in the Information & Answers above
written, it was ordered by the Board that the said Infor-
mation should be distinctly read to him, which was accord-
ingly done, and it was by him acknowledged to be the Truth,
and what he had always averred and insisted on.

p. 141

The said Johnson was then remanded to prison, and the
Governor after a short time desired the Opinion of the
Board on what they had heard, and the Matters that had
been laid before them, and his Excellency desired to know
what farther Steps they would advise him to take thereon.
In Answer the Board unanimously gave it as their Advice
and Opinion that Priest Neale and the other persons, In-
habitants of this Province, that the prisoner had in his In-
formation, or Answers charged or named should be taken
into Custody, and brought hither for an Examination before
his Excellency and the Council, and thereupon the following
Warrant was immediately made out and issued to Charles
Christie Esquire high Sheriff of Baltimore County.

Maryland ss :
Whereas Information hath been made to us the Governor
and the Subscribers Members of his Lordships Council of
State met in Council at the City of Annapolis on the 13^th
day of November Anno Domini 1756. that a certain Bennet
Neale a Romish Priest, President in Baltimore County, and
Thomas Burgen, Darby Tool, James M^cDonald, Ulick Burk,
Ignatius Wheeler and John Crayton of the said County are
Persons very ill affected to his Majesty's person and Govern-
ment and have behaved themselves on many Occasions in a
seditious manner contrary to their due Allegiance.
These are therefore in his Lordship's Name to require you
that immediately on Receipt hereof you take into your Cus-
tody the Bodies of them the said Bennett Neale, Thomas
Burgen, Darby Toole, James M^cDonald, Ulick Burk Igna-
tius Wheeler and Jn^o Crayton, and them safe keep, so that
you have them before us at the City aforesaid, on Monday
the 29^th of this Instant November to answer unto such
Matters and Things as shall be then and there objected