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

Lib. J. R.
& U. S.

of whatever has Come to our knowledge concerning his
Absence or Misbehaviour
In Obedience to the Commands of your Excellency &
Honours We beg leave to Represent That we know not of
any Tumultuous Meetings or Caballings amongst the Ne-
groes in our County more than usual; for the Constables of
the Several hundreds are directed by an Act of Assembly
to prevent and suppress the Same for which they have an
allowance every November and we have always been Par-
ticularly careful in Satisfying ourselves that the Several
Constables have discharged that part of their Duty

We also beg leave to Represent that we do not know in
our County of any Person or Persons of the Roman Catho-
lick persuasion having misbehaved themselves in any manner
so as to give any Grounds whatever to any of his Majestys
Loyal Subjects to fear an Insurrection nor do We know
of any Roman Catholick Priests who are residents in our
County nor has any Information been made by any Person
whatever to our Court, nor Come to our knowledge as private
Men relating to the foregoing Particulars we are directed
to enquire into.

Therefore We beg leave to Represent to your Excellency
and Honours that in Our County there does not Appear to
be the least foundation for such Rumours and Reports as
tend so much to the Disquiet of his Majestys Subjects in
this Province And we wish the Authors of such Rumours
and falsehoods Punished as Disturbers of the Publick Peace

Nov^r 17^th 1755. We are
Your Excellency and Honours Most Obedient & most
Hble Serv^ts

Monat, Alex^r Warfield, Wm Chapman, Tho^s Jennings
Henry Hall jun. Jn^o Iams, Henry Howard, Ephraim Howard

p. 71

Sir
The Justices of Kent County Court having received a
Letter from you by direction of the Governor and Council
Informing them that Reports had been Spread that in this
County had been tumultuous Meetings & Caballings of Ne-
groes, that the Roman Catholicks had misbehaved and that
some of their Priests had been absent Our County Court
hereupon have made diligent enquiry into these Particular
facts and do not find that there have been any tumultuous
Meetings or Caballings of Negroes or that the Roman Catho-
licks in this County have misbehaved, as to Priests of that
Persuasion we do not know of any who reside in this County