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Great Seal used in this Province, but being of a Refractory and Tur-
bulent Disposition, and intending to deter and prevent his said Ex-
cellency John Hart, Esq; Governour and Keeper of the Great Seal
aforesaid, from the Lawful Execution of his Office of Keeper of
the Great Seal aforesaid, and from Using the same at the said Lord
Proprietary's Court-House, commonly called the Stadt-House,
within the City of Annapolis, in Anne-Arrundel County, then and
there having discourse with a certain Michael Howard of the same
City and County Esq; and the said Michael Howard then and there
telling the said Thomas Macnamara, That he had got a Supersedeas
to his Replevin (meaning a Writ of Replevin about that time sued
out of the Court of Chancery by the aforesaid Thomas Macnamara,
for a Certain Andrew Dalrymple of Somerset County, Merchant,
to Replevy one Sloop, Called, The Nightingale Fifteen Hogsheads
of Tobacco and two Casks of Rum, said, by the said Dalrymple to
be taken from him by William Stoughton, Esq; against Sureties and
Pledges, &c.) the said Thomas Macnamara well knowing that the
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aforesaid Writ of Supersedeas was only Grantable by his Excellency
John Hart, Esq; Governour aforesaid, as Keeper of the aforesaid
Great Seal, then and there in the hearing of the said Michael How-
ard, Esq; and divers others Leige Subjects of our Sovereign Lord
King George (that now is) did say and utter the following Words,
in a threatning manner and accent (to wit) I (himself the said
Thomas Macnamara meaning) wish I could see him (the Person
meaning) that dare grant such a Writ (the aforesaid Writ of Super-
sedeas granted by the Governour, as Keeper of the Great Seal afore-
said, meaning) and further the Jurors aforesaid, upon their Oaths
do say, That afterwards, to wit on the thirteenth day of August, in
the year aforesaid, the aforesaid Thomas Macnamara being a Mag-
istrate and Alderman of the aforesaid City of Annapolis, but of a
Turbulent, Babbling, Wicked and Seditious Spirit, the Cordial re-
spect and due Obedience which to the Person of his said Excellency
John Hart, Esq; the then and yet Lieutenant Governour of this
Province, and the Government thereof by Royal Authority Estab-
lished and Appointed to have and bear, he ought, with-drawing, and
the Authority to his said Excellency John Hart, Esq; Governour,
as aforesaid, granted in and by their said Lordship's Commission,
then and still on Record, and duly published within this Province,
contemning and setting at nought, and the Good Rule and Adminis-
tration of the Government of his said Excellency John Hart, Esq;
in and over this Province, as well as his said Person to render
Odious, Contemptible and Vile in the Eyes of Good People of this
Province, and other his Majestie's Liege Subjects, and to stir them
up to Sedition and breach of his Lordship's Peace and good Rule
within this Province, Endeavouring, being then and there within the
Attorney's Bar in the said Lord Proprietaries Court-House, in the
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