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Thomas Greaves, of Saint Mary's County, Carpenter, aged sixty
three Years, or thereabouts, being sworn on the holy Evangelists of
almighty God, deposeth and saith, That Mary, the Wife of William
Snowden, told him this Deponent, that the Roman Catholics, in
Maryland, did raise Money for the Use of the Pretender, in the late
Rebellion, and that she, the said Mary, had paid Ten Shillings to that
Purpose, and that he understood by her, that they the Papists had all
contributed to that End, viz. towards carrying on the Rebellion
against King George. That he observed, at that Time, the Papists, in
Saint Mary's County, judged themselves so numerous, that they said
they were sure that they were Man to Man against the Protestants,
and that the Papists very frequently said, they would wash their
Hands in the Blood of Protestants, and that they would soon preach
in Chaptico Church, which is a Parish Protestant Church, in the said
County, and that all the Protestants would be damned, for that there
was no Salvation out of the Church of Rome, and that in that County,
the Papists, as well as their Priests, endeavour to pervert the Pro-
testants in that County, as also the Negroes of Protestant Inhabi-
tants, insinuating to them Damnation if they do not follow their
Doctrine. This Deponent further saith, That one Molyneux, a Jesuit,
who resided at Port Tobacco, in Charles County, and who was Chief
of the Jesuits at a House there, and over all the rest in the Province
as he judges, was often absent from his said Place of Abode, and as
this Deponent understood from one William Fletcher, who lived with
one Livers, a Jesuit, in Saint Mary's County, the said Molyneux was
gone back in the Country, but how far he did not well understand,
but that it was among the Dutch or French, and that by the Neigh-
bourhood, it was supposed he the said Molyneux, was gone among the
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Liber No. 47
October 29
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French; that upon the said Molyneux his next Return, he brought
with him a Person who was affirmed to be a Priest, and who this
Deponent saw, but did not understand his Language, but believes it
to be French or Dutch, as he was informed he could not talk English ;
that, in the Time of the late Rebellion, this Deponent saw three well
dressed Gentlemen, whom he took to be Frenchmen, coming from
Mr. Livers the Jesuit his House, and that they had been there two
or three Days, as he understood; that at the said Livers his House,
there are always two or three Priests, or Jesuits, who have a public
Chapel there, as also two more within the Space of four Miles off this
Deponent's House; that Mr. Livers, the Jesuit aforesaid, was about
an Agreement with this Deponent to undertake to build a Popish
Chapel, in Saint Mary's County, but offered him too little to compleat
it; that James Thompson, a Papist, also Messieurs Sligh and Lan-
caster, Papists also, who projected the Building, treated with this
Deponent about it; that Thompson told this Deponent, that Philip
Key, Esq; and Mr. John Bond, were to give Five Hundred Pounds
of Tobacco each, towards building the said Chapel, which Tobacco
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