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HISTORY OF MARYLAND.
towards the colony, waiting only the opportunity of revenge. During his
absence, one of the first acts of legislation in the Provincial Assembly of
1637 had been to declare his property forfeited to the government,1 and in
1640 he is found petitioning for its restoration, and otherwise biding his time.
1 The act of attainder was to the following
effect:
" Saint Maries. In the house of generall Assembly, on the 24th Marth, Anno Domini, 1637,
was read the fourth time, a Bill of the tenor and
effect following, viz.:
An act for the attainder of William Cleybome, gent.
Whereas, William Cleyborne, gent., is notoriously knowen to have committed sondry contempts, insolencies, and seditious acts against
the dignity, government, and domination of the
Lord Proprietarie of this Province, and to have
conspired and contrived sondry mischeivous
machinations and practices with the Indians of
these parts, to the subversion and destruction of
this Colony, and the people thereof: and to have
used and exequuted sondry magistraticall and
regall powers and jurisdictions, within this
Province, and upon the inhabitants of the same,
by levying of souldiers, appointing Leutenants
and other Officers, imprisoning and otherwise
punishing of offenders, and by granting lettres
of reprisall and Commissions for the exequution
of justice upon the vessells and goods of the
Leutenant generall of this Province, and of the
people inhabiting this colony of St Maries, without any authority or Commission for the same,
from our Soveraigne Lord the King, or from the
Lord Proprietary of this Province, or from any
other Prince or State whatsoever: And whereas,
by an Act of generall Assemblie held at St
Maries on the six and twentieth day of February, 1634 [1635 N. S.J, among other wholesome
lawes and ordinances then made and provided
for the welfare of this Province, it was enacted,
that the offenders in all murthers and felonies
should suffer such paines, losses, and forfeitures
as they should or ought to have suffered in the
like crimes in England. Since the making of
which Act, that is to say, on the three and
twentieth day of Aprill, 1635, the said William
Cleyborne hath not onely continued his said
insolences, mutinies, and contempts against the
Lord Proprietary and the government of this
place, but hath instigated and commanded
sundry persons to committ the greivous crimes
of pyracie and murther, [which—the manuscript
illegible here,] pyracie and murther is lawfully
indicted by a grand Enquest of foure and
twenty freemen of this Province; and since,
and after the committing of the same pyracie
and murther, hath fiedd and withdrawen himself out of the Province, whereby he cannot be
attainted of the said crimes by any ordinary
course of justice;—We the freemen assembled
in this present generall Assembly, considering
the premises and the necessity of exemplary
iustice to be inflicted on such notorious and
insolent rebells and disturbers of the peace and
safety of the inhabitants of this Province, and
for the terror of like offenders in time to come,
doe request your Lordship that it may be
enacted, and be it enacted by the Lord Proprietary with the advice of the Freemen of this
present generall Assembly, that the said William
Cleyborne be attainted of the crimes aforesaid,
and that he f orf eite to the Lord Proprietarie all
his lands and tenements which he was seized of
on the said three and twentieth day of April, in
the year 1635. And that he f orf eite to the said
Lord Proprietary all his goods and chattells,
which he hath within this Province at this
present.
And the aforesaid Bill, being engrossed in
parchment, was approved and signed by the
Leutenant generall, and all the Freemen assembled."
| Title | History of Maryland - 1 |
| Creator | Scharf, J. Thomas (John Thomas) |
| Publisher | J. B. Piet |
| Place of Publication | Baltimore |
| Date | 1879 |
| Language | eng |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Title | 00000145 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | 120 HISTORY OF MARYLAND. towards the colony, waiting only the opportunity of revenge. During his absence, one of the first acts of legislation in the Provincial Assembly of 1637 had been to declare his property forfeited to the government,1 and in 1640 he is found petitioning for its restoration, and otherwise biding his time. 1 The act of attainder was to the following effect: " Saint Maries. In the house of generall Assembly, on the 24th Marth, Anno Domini, 1637, was read the fourth time, a Bill of the tenor and effect following, viz.: An act for the attainder of William Cleybome, gent. Whereas, William Cleyborne, gent., is notoriously knowen to have committed sondry contempts, insolencies, and seditious acts against the dignity, government, and domination of the Lord Proprietarie of this Province, and to have conspired and contrived sondry mischeivous machinations and practices with the Indians of these parts, to the subversion and destruction of this Colony, and the people thereof: and to have used and exequuted sondry magistraticall and regall powers and jurisdictions, within this Province, and upon the inhabitants of the same, by levying of souldiers, appointing Leutenants and other Officers, imprisoning and otherwise punishing of offenders, and by granting lettres of reprisall and Commissions for the exequution of justice upon the vessells and goods of the Leutenant generall of this Province, and of the people inhabiting this colony of St Maries, without any authority or Commission for the same, from our Soveraigne Lord the King, or from the Lord Proprietary of this Province, or from any other Prince or State whatsoever: And whereas, by an Act of generall Assemblie held at St Maries on the six and twentieth day of February, 1634 [1635 N. S.J, among other wholesome lawes and ordinances then made and provided for the welfare of this Province, it was enacted, that the offenders in all murthers and felonies should suffer such paines, losses, and forfeitures as they should or ought to have suffered in the like crimes in England. Since the making of which Act, that is to say, on the three and twentieth day of Aprill, 1635, the said William Cleyborne hath not onely continued his said insolences, mutinies, and contempts against the Lord Proprietary and the government of this place, but hath instigated and commanded sundry persons to committ the greivous crimes of pyracie and murther, [which—the manuscript illegible here,] pyracie and murther is lawfully indicted by a grand Enquest of foure and twenty freemen of this Province; and since, and after the committing of the same pyracie and murther, hath fiedd and withdrawen himself out of the Province, whereby he cannot be attainted of the said crimes by any ordinary course of justice;—We the freemen assembled in this present generall Assembly, considering the premises and the necessity of exemplary iustice to be inflicted on such notorious and insolent rebells and disturbers of the peace and safety of the inhabitants of this Province, and for the terror of like offenders in time to come, doe request your Lordship that it may be enacted, and be it enacted by the Lord Proprietary with the advice of the Freemen of this present generall Assembly, that the said William Cleyborne be attainted of the crimes aforesaid, and that he f orf eite to the Lord Proprietarie all his lands and tenements which he was seized of on the said three and twentieth day of April, in the year 1635. And that he f orf eite to the said Lord Proprietary all his goods and chattells, which he hath within this Province at this present. And the aforesaid Bill, being engrossed in parchment, was approved and signed by the Leutenant generall, and all the Freemen assembled." |
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