THE TWO SECRETARIES 35

2. THE SECRETARY IN ENGLAND, 1706-1776.

This office arose on Sir Thomas Lawrence's final return home,
in January, 1705/6, leaving Colonel Philemon Lloyd to be his
deputy in Maryland. ²⁶ After Lawrence died, in April, 1714, his
successor, Thomas Beake of London, solicited and obtained a
restoration of the government to the Lords Baltimore. For this
service he was promised a life appointment, but he was obliged
to share his office first with Charles Lowe and then with the
Honorable Cecilius Calvert. On Beake's death, in or shortly
before February, 1732/3, the post reverted to a single incumbent
and was then held in succession by William Janssen, John
Browning, Cecilius Calvert, and Hugh Hamersley. The last
named, His Lordship's family solicitor, was appointed November
4, 1765. Hamersley 's office ended with the collapse of proprietary
government, and he died in 1789.

We have seen that the Principal Secretary's income arose from
three sources: a salary paid by his deputy, saddles paid by other
officers, and the ordinary license fines.

We may suppose that Colonel Lloyd paid Sir Thomas f 200
sterling a year, for it was this sum that he agreed to pay Law-
rence's successors, Beake and Lowe. ²⁷ Thereafter the amount of
this salary becomes an index of the influence of each party upon
the Lord Proprietor. Edmund Jenings, a particular favorite of
Baltimore's, who in March, 1732/3, succeeded Lloyd as Deputy
Secretary, first got the salary reduced, probably at his appoint-
ment, to £ 100. (The Principal Secretaryship was now placed
in the hands of one person instead of two. ) Jenings then per-
suaded His Lordship to dispense with any payment until he could
get another office to augment his personal income. Baltimore
himself may have paid the salary until 1744 or later. ²⁸ More-

Carroll of Carrollton, Nov. 2, 1770 (Maryland Historical Magazine, XIII
69).

²⁶ Provincial Court Record, liber TL, No. 2, folio 987 (Md. Land Office). The
Secretary had twice before been absent from the province. When Sir William Talbot
returned to Ireland in June, 1671, he left Robert Ridgely as his deputy (Archives,
V, 87). Ridgely ceased to act about April, 1673, when Baltimore revoked
Talbot's commission as Secretary. During Sir Thomas Lawrence's first absence
from Oct., 1694, to Aug., 1696, Col. Thomas Brooke II acted as his deputy (Ibid.,
XIX, 99).

²⁷ Ibid., XXXIII, 523.

²⁸ Cf. Edmund Jenings to Lord Baltimore, Aug. 28, 1744. and Horatio Sharpe
to William Sharpe, July 6, 1757 (Ibid. XLII, 670; IX, 48),