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October 22
Red Book
No. 27
Letter 36
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[Petition of Henry Cyple of the City of Annapolis To his Excellency
Thomas Sim Lee Esqr]
Your petitioners wife was by a certain Mary Logan presented in
the General Court for an Assault on the said Mary & an Indictment
found thereon.
That in the absence of your Petitioner his wife was perswaded to
submit the matter to the Court under a protestation of Innocence,
that in consequence thereof & she being wholly Ignorant of court
proceedings thought Evidence unnecessary — the court proceeded to
Fine her, and did so to the Amount of £15. Specie
That your Petitioner & his wife are well known in this City and
he has the happiness to insinuate to your Excellency that they are,
and ever have been Esteemed by all their neighbours and acquain-
tance quiet, peaceable and orderly people.
That from the most indecent and abusive Language accompanied
with violent strokes with a stick, so far provoked your Petitioners
wife that upon wresting the Stick out of her Hands she returned
some of the Blows she had received.
That the said Mary Logan from the vicious habit of Drinking &
her ungovernable passions subjects herself to the ridicule of some &
to the Pity of others, insomuch that Molly Logan's Capers (as they
are called) are become a mere adage.
That if your petitioner had been apprized of the aforesaid Sub-
mission & had been in Town, he is Conscious and well assured that
he could have procured such Testimony relative to the matter as
would have made the invidious machinations of the said Mary recoil
with obloquy upon herself.
That if your Excellency should think it expedient or necessary
your petr by good Evidence could prove that so far from his wife
being the Agressor she had like to have become an Innocent Victim
to the rage of a Malignant, jealous drunken woman
Your Petitioner therefore prays your Excellency to take the prem-
isses into consideration and to grant him such relief therein, as you
in your wisdom shall think just and meet.
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