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"For my own part, I think myself in honor and justice obliged, and I 

 am determined to protect such of his Majesty's subjects who are my own 

 tenants, in all their rights; and therefore, to the end the persons com- 

 plained of may be punished, if upon a fair tryal they shall be found 

 guilty, I desire that they, or such of them as can be found in your Pro- 

 vince, may be sent without loss of time into this, as the only and proper 

 place, where the fact with which they are charged is cognizable, and 

 where my officers will be ready to receive them, particularly the sheriffs 

 and justices of my counties of Baltimore and Cecil. 



"I also desire that such of your magistrates as shall appear to have en- 

 couraged the commission of these or any other violences in my province 

 by the people of Pennsylvania, may be punished for their abuse of 

 authority; and that you'l favor me with a categorical answer to these my 

 just demands by this bearer. Your humble servant, 



Baltimore." 



" Addressed thus : 

 " To His Excellency Patrick Gordon, Esq., at Philadelphia." 



The Precept referred to in the foregoing Letter, follows in these words: 



"Maryland, ss: 



"Whereas Charles Jones, James Patison, Alxr. McKey, John Capper, 

 John Hart, John Pattan, James Pattan, James Patison, jr., John Trotter 

 and William Macmanac being, or pretending themselves to be, inhabi- 

 tants of Pennsylvania, together with several other persons unknown, are 

 charged upon the oath of John Lowe of Baltimore county, planter, taken 

 before me, Kobert Gordon, Esq., one of his Lordship's Justices of the 

 Provincial Court of Maryland, who having assembled themselves, armed 

 with weapons, offensive and defensive, in a riotous manner, on the plan- 

 tation of him the said John Lowe, in the said county, in the nigkt of the 

 twenty-sixth of November last, and violently and riotously assaulting 

 and beating the said John Lowe, his wife and family, and imprisoning 

 the said John Lowe and his two sons, to the great terror and damage of 

 the said John Lowe and his family, against his Lordship's peace, good 

 rule and government : 



" These are therefore in his Lordship's name, to will and require all 

 Sheriffs, Coroners, Constables, and other his Lordship's Officers, to make 

 diligent search and enquiry within their respective Counties and pre- 

 cincts, for the said Charles Jones, James Pattison, Alexander M'Key, 

 John Capper, John Hart, James Pattan, James Pattison, Jr., John Trot- 

 ter and William Macmanac, and all other persons concerned in the said 

 riot, and to apprehend them or any of them who shall be found within 

 this Province, and to carry them or any of them before some one of his 

 Lordship's Justices of the Provincial Court, or some one Justice of the 

 Peace of the County where they or any of them shall be found, in order 



