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36) four or more of you as afd Shall Make known unto him that he give his Attendance on you And if need require he Cause to come before you or Any four or more of you as afd Such and So many good and Lawfull Men of your County by Whom the Truth of the prmises May be the better known and Enquired of Lastly You Shall Cause to come before you on the day and Att the place afd the writts precepts processe & Judgts. to your Cort belonging and Jurisdiction, that the Same May be Inspected And by Due Course of Law determined Wittness our Trusty & well beloved Nathll Blakiston Esqr. Capt. Grall and Govr. in Cheif in and over our Said Province and Territory of Maryland this twentyeth day of March in the fourteenth year of our Reign &ca. Annoq Dom 1701 // N Blakiston ( loco ) The above Comon was endorsed as folls. Vizt. | Sigelli | ( magni ) William the third by the grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireld: King Defender of the faith &ca. To Mr. Phillip Hopkins Mr. Solomon Wright Mr. John Wells Mr. John Chaires Mr. James Smith and Mr. Michael Miller of Kent County Gentn Greeting We do hereby Authorize And Empower you the Said Mr. Phillip Hopkins Mr. Solomon Wright Mr. John Wells Mr. John Chaires Mr. James Smith and Mr. Michll= Miller or Either of you to Administer the Oaths Appointed by Act of parliamt. instead of the oaths of Allegiance And Supremacy as Also the oaths of Juste To Mr. Wm. ffrisby Mr. Elias King Mr. John Whittington Mr. Charles Hynson Mr. Thomas Ringold and Mr. John Salter or either of them And you the Said Mr. Elias King Mr. Wm. ffrisby Mr. John Whittington Charles having taken the Said Oaths are to Administer the Same unto the rest of the Justices and Comrs respecitvely as they are Nominated in the Within written Comission And that you and every of you do Severally Sub= Scribe the test and Association And for So doing this Shall be your Sufficient Authority hereof faile not And When you have the Same So done you are to Certify the Same under your hands and Seales unto us in our high Cort Wittness our trusty and well beloved Nathll. Blakiston Esqr. our Capt. Generall and Govr. in Cheif in and over our Province and Territory of Maryland this twentyeth day of March in the fourteenth year of our Reign &ca. Annoq Dom 170½ N Blakiston Which Comicon being read as afd Mr. Wm. ffrisby was Called to take the Oaths in the Comicon appointed to be taken but the Said ffrisby refusing Answered, he had Sworn Enough. And hop’d to give the Justices Satis factory reasons for his non Jurans When in private. The rest of the Justs were All Sworn according to dedimus potestm Save Elias King, who (also |
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