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    within our Said province that they upon Sight of this our proclama- Liber C D
    tion do Imediately publish and proclaim the Same And Give the
    Respective Deputys & Delegates of their County particular notice
    of our will & pleasure herein Given at our City of S.t maries under
    our Great Seale of our Said province of Maryland the Sixteenth
    day of September in the 41.th year of our Dominion over our S.d
    province Annoq Domini 1672. Wittness our Dear Son Charles
    Calvert Esq.r our Capt Generall & Cheif Governour of our Said
    province of maryland
      Nine of these writts or proclamacöns were Sent into the nine
    Severall Countys

      Henry Beedle & Sophia his wife Sp :a ag.t George Wells Gent
    Chan.ry ret the 1.st of Oct.r p & Dated the September 1672

      Caecilius &c To our Sher of the County of Kent, Greeting because (fol. 95)
    in the Record and process as also in the Rendering of Judgm.t &
    Granting Execution against Christopher Andrews and mary his now
    wife the late wife of William Standley deced at the Suit of Robert
    Chapman in a plea of Slander and defamation manifest Error hath
    happened to the Grieveous damage of them the Said Christopher
    Andrews & mary his wife as out of their Complaint we have accepted
    as by the Record & processe thereupon Between the parties afore
    said by virtue of our writt of Correcting the Error to our Corn
    mission.rs of Kent County Directed by them before our Justices of
    our provinciall Court To be holden at our City of S.t maries the
    tenth day of December next under their hands and Seals to be
    Sent, And because upon the Said writt of Correcting of Errors
    the Said Christopher Andrews & mary his wife have put in Sufficient
    Manucapto.rs for their appearance in our Said Provinciall Court
    on the sd tenth day of December and So from day to day or at any
    day to them in our Said Court in the premisses pfixed or to be
    pfixed untill the Said writt of Correcting Errors Shall be determined
    and to Satisfie the Said Robert Chapman his Damages of it shall
    happen the Said Christopher & mary the S.d tenth day of December
    or at any other day by our Said Court perfixed or to he perfixed
    Shall not appear or not prosecute with Effect or that it Shall happen
    the Said Judgem.t Shall be affirmed Therefore We Command you
    that from further taking arresting Imprisoning or them by that
    Occasion any ways molesting you altogether Supersede & if them
    the Said Christopher & mary for that Occasion and no other you
    have taken them from the prison in which they are Detained, if
    upon that Occasion & no other they are detayned without delay you
    Cause to be delivered upon perill thereon following. Wittness our
    Self at our City of s.t maries the Seventh day of October in the
    xxxxi.th year of our Dominion over o.r Said province Of Maryland
    Annoq Domini 1672              George Parker