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L. H. J.
Liber No. 47
June 17
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8thly. Your Committee humbly report to your Honourable
House, That not only most of the Papists within this Province exert
their Power and Interest, to procure such Persons to be elected into
your Honourable House, as they think most suitable to their Pur-
poses; but more particularly Mr. Charles Carroll, a powerful Papist,
before and at the late Elections, did endeavour to influence many
Electors in Anne Arundel, Prince George's, and Frederick Counties,
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by treating, writing, and other artful Means; which we humbly ap-
prehend to be a Violation of the Rights of his Majesty's dutiful
and loyal Subjects of this Province.
All which we humbly conceive to be great Grievances, introduc-
tious of dangerous Evils, and tend to alienate the Affections of his
Majesty's Protestant Subjects of Maryland from his Lordship's
good Rule and Government; but is humbly submitted to the Con-
sideration of your Honourable House.
Signed per Order, Wm. Wilkins, Clerk.
And the following Deposition; viz.
Henry Cassell, of Frederick County, who was born of German
Parents, and says he understands the German Language well, makes
Oath on the Evangelists, that he knew Mr. Wapler, the German
Jesuit, or Priest, or who stood in the Priest's Place; and he, this
Deponent, heard him preach as such in the German Language, and
who now is, he supposes, in Germany; but this Deponent understood
the said Wapler had stayed his Time here, and another was to come
in his Room: That he has a Plantation at Connawago, called Wap-
ler's Place, and a Settlement thereon: That lately there was at
Connawago, at Wapler's Place, another German or English Jesuit
or Priest, who had his Meeting there, and at which were several
English as well as Germans: That many of the Germans are Roman
Catholics; and, he believes, many of the English or Irish up that
Way, about Pipe Creek: That most of the German Roman Catholics,
that this Deponent knows live up towards the Mountains; and that
he has been informed, the said Wapler has preached several Times
at Mr. John Digg's: And further saith not
Henry Cassell.
Sworn the 30th Day of May, in the Year of our Lord God 1751.
before me, Robert Jenckins Henry.
And the following Papers, marked A, B, C.
A.
In the Records and Proceedings of the Provincial Court of Mary-
land, amongst other Things, is contained as follows; viz.
At a Provincial Court held at the City of An-
Maryland, ss. napolis, in Anne Arundel County, in and for the
[Province aforesaid, on the second Tuesday of April,
being the eighth Day of the same Month, and in the 31st Year of the
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