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continued: ** Robert Percy was a prisoner at Pope's Fort,6 and it was rumored that he had hidden the priest's plate. John Hilliard said he would forgive him a debt, hoping that Percy, who was about to leave the country, would tell him where it was hidden. But Percy did not tell him and so Hilliard sued in vain for the debt in Greene's administration. 6) Md. Arch., Prov. Ct., 415, 418, 419. ** The Protest of 1648, New Style. " We, the freemen assembled in this present general Assembly, do hereby declare, under our hands ; and generally, jointly, and unanimously protest, against the laws which are now pretended to be put in force by the last general Assembly ; conceiving that they were not lawfully enacted. For that no summons issued out return, we may suppose, of all the Roman Catholics, who had been expelled or exported from St. Mary's, by Capt. Ingle, and the other enemies of the proprietary. In 1649, she had but one delegate; while St. Mary's was represented by eight. And this year, she paid but a sixth part of the tax.1 And for many years after, as well as before this Assembly, there is no evidence whatever of a division of the island, or the county, even into hundreds.3 Its population did^not, in 1648, exceed the fifth ; nor in 1649, the sixth part of the to all the inhabitants, whereby their appearance was required by lawful authority. Witness our hands, this 28th January, 1647. Robert Yaughan, 24 voices. Robt. Clarke, proxy, Geo. Akerick, 8, Cuthbert Fenwick, 8, Walter Peake, 22, Robert Percy,proxy, 1 December 2, 1649 Robert Percy defendant for 400 Tobo. Robert Percy a prisoner at Pope�s Fort over this debt. Robert Percy is not found in any record after December 2, 1649, evidently being ejected or fleeing from Maryland. Issue: i. Francis Percy b. 1616 d. 1660 Baptized April 15, 1616, Bickley, Devon, England. ii. Thomas Percy b. ca.1618 In arms under reign of Charles I, slain in wars of that time. Could this be the Thomas Pearsey found in Calvert County, Maryland from 1657-1666? August 22, 1638 - St. Mary�s County, MD. - A true and perfect inventary of all the goods and debts of Andrew Baker�s., their value praised by Thomas Baldridge and Thomas Percy. iii. James Percy b. ca.1620 In arms under reign of Charles I, slain in wars of that time. iv. Anne Percy b. ca.1622 m. ca.1640 Roger England ) (1600- )