The following record
is the transcription of a portion of the Council Minutes of St. Mary’s,
At
a Councill held at St Maries the 14th Day of July Anno
Dmi 1681:
The
Rt honbl8 the Lord Propry
Philip
Calvert Esqr Chancellor
William
Calvert Esqr Secry
Coll Henry Darnall Present
George
Talbot Esqr
William
Digges Esqr
At wch
time Mr John Tyrling
according to summons makes his appearance and being called is charged with
having uttered mutinous and seditious words to the people his Audi- tors Sayeing that his Lspp the Lord Propry had
furnished the Indians with powder and shott and noe wonder .then the English had their throats cutt when the Propry gave them
powder and shott for that purpose & words to that
effect for Evidence is called William Hodgeson who
Declared That James Rumsey Reported that Mr Tyrling should say in presence of Coll
Jowles and others that the Indians had received
powder and shott from his Lspp
and noe wonder they cutt
our throates when his Lspp
furnished them with powder and shott. Mr Tyrling prayes
the testimony of Coll Jowles
or any other person of note that was then his Auditors when he spake these words otherwise if onely
the said Hodgeson heard it it
cannot be tearmed sedition, but further Denies that
he said any such thing but that sometime since came a man to his house and told
him that Mr Rosewell should
report that one Daniel Mathena of Charles County
would offer to sweare that his Lspp
had sent a Packett of letters to the Sinniquos for them to come and cutt
off the Protestants, to wch he the said Tyrling Replied that the said Mathena
and those who reported it after him ought to be whipped, that possibly he might
tell this to some other person at some time but the words laid to his charge or
any thing tending thereunto he utterly Denies. William Hodgeson
further saith that James Rumsey
(as Simon Stacy told him) made this Report of Mr Tyrling before The said Stacy. Thomas Lawson Richard Mr Darceys Overseer and others
The further heareing and Examination whereof is
referred till thursday next the 2 Ith
of this instant July at wch time to be summoned James
Rumsey Simon Stacy, Thomas Lawson and Darceys Overseer, and Mr Tyrling to give bond to the sheriff of 20000lb tobo
for his appeareance then at this board, accordingly
issued the following ordr to the sheriff of Calvert
County to summon the persons aforesaid viz
By the Lord Propry & Councill You are
hereby willed and required as also strictly charged and comanded
to summon James Rumsey, Simon Stacy, Thomas Lawson,
and Richard Mr Darceys
Overseer all of your County that all excuses sett
apart they and every of them be and personally appeare
before his Lspp and Councill
at the City of St Maries on thursday next the One and
twentieth instant by Nine of the Clock in the morning to testifye
the truth of their knowledge to what shall be proposed unto them in behalf of
the Rt honble the Lord Propry whereof they are not to faile
at their peril Dated the fourteenth Day of July in the sixth yeare of his Lspps Dominion
&c. Annoq Domini
1681Signed p ordr To Coll
Henry Jowles high Sher. p J Llewellin Cl
Consil
of
Then also issued the
following ordr to the Sheriff of St
At a Council held at
the City of
twentieth day of July Anno Domini 1681:
The Rt honble the Lord Propry
Philip Calvert Esqr Chancelor
William Calvert Esqr Secry
John Hoskins of St
Maries County according to summons from his Lspp to
him formerly directed makes his appearance at this board Who was charged with
saying in some Company that if he had said half soe
much as Capt Coode had said he would runn away too, and being required to testifie
upon oath what it was Capt Coode should say to cause
those expressions to come from him being duely sworne saith that possibly in
drink such or the like words might by him be spoken but that Coode should
speake any thing mooveing him thereunto he knows not being sometimes apt to
talk at randome in drink and speake what he cann give noe Accompt of William Hodgeson according to order of this board the last Councill Day makes his appeareance
and haveing taken his oath upon the holy Evangelist saith that being up at a horse Race at Mr
Rumseys in Company with Simon Stacy and others he
told Stacy that he heard he had fforted in his house,
To wch Stacy replyed he was
afraid of the Indians ffor that Mr
Tyrling had reported My Lord had furnished them with
powder and shott, And that he called Thomas Lawson,
and Richard Thomas to witness that Mr Rumsey heard Mr Tyrling say soe. Simon Stacy
called Denyes that he ever said any such thing of Mr Tyrling Thomas Lawson called Denyes that he was desired to witness any such thing or
that he heard any such thing said Richard Thomas saith
that he heard Mr Rumsey say
that Mr Tyrling should say
My Lord had furnished the Indians with powder and shott.
James Rumsey then called Saith
that haveing formerly heard the Report of his Lspps furnishing the Indians with powder and shott and being One Day at Church before it begann it was the generall
discourse amongst the people there that My Lord had lett
the Indians have powder and shott, and that Mr Tyrling amongst the rest said
he heard soe too but could not give any creditt to it Mr Tyrling is Discharged from his Recognizance taken last Councill Day and from his further appeareance
at this board upon this occasion
At
a Councill held at the City of
twentieth day of July Anno Domini 1681:
The
Rt honble
the Lord Propry
Philip
Calvert Esqr Chancelor
The
honble William Calvert Esqr
Secry Present
Vincent
Lowe Esqr
Coll Henry Darnall