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First Session: May 15, 1676 - June 15, 1676
Second Session: October 20, 1678 - November 14, 1678
Third Session: August 16, 1681 - September 17, 1681
Fourth Session: November 1, 1681 - November 12, 16811
Fifth Session: April 25, 1682 - May 13, 1682Source:
Edward C. Papenfuse, et al., A Biographical Dictionary of the Maryland Legislature, 1635-1789, Vols. 1&2. Annapolis, MD: Maryland State Archives, 1979, 1985.
| Upper House | |
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| Philip Calvert, chancellor
William Calvert, secretary Baker Brooke, d-3 Samuel Chew, d-2 Jesse Wharton, d-22 Thomas Taillor Thomas Notley, a-2, d-3, deputy governor 22 |
Henry Coursey, a-2
Benjamin Rozer, a-2, d-3 Vincent Lowe, a-3 Henry Darnall, a-3 William Stevens, a-3 George Talbot, a-33 William Digges, a-3 |
| Lower House4 | |||
| Anne Arundel County
William Burgess James Rigby, d-3 John Homewood William Richardson Richard Hill, e-3 |
Baltimore County
George Wells John Stansby, s-3 John Waterton John Scott James Mills, e-4 or e-55 |
Calvert County
Thomas Brooke, d-2 Richard Hall Richard Ladd Christopher Rousby6 Francis Billingsley, e-2 |
Cecil County
James Frisby Jonathan Sybray William Pearce Nathaniel Garrett |
| Charles County
John Allen, d-2 John Douglass, d-3 Robert Henley Henry Adams Josias Fendall7 John Stone, e-2 Randolph Brandt, e-3 |
Dorchester County
John Stevens William Ford, d-3 Bartholomew Ennalls John Hudson, d-2 Anthony Tall, e-2, d-3 John Brooke, e-3 Henry Trippe, e-3 |
Kent County
Joseph Wickes Thomas Marsh, d-3 Henry Hosier Samuel Tovey8 John Hynson, e-3 Thomas Smith, e-3?8 |
St. Mary's City
Kenelm Cheseldyne Robert Carvile |
| St. Mary's County
Thomas Notley, spkr 1, c-22 John Coode9 William Hatton Walter Hall, e-2 Clement Hill, e-210 Richard Gardiner, e-3 |
Somerset County
William Stevens, c-3 Roger Woolford James Dashiell John White, s-3 John Goddin, e-3 Henry Smith, e-3 |
Talbot County
Philemon Lloyd, spkr 2-5 John Edmundson Richard Woolman, d-3 Wenlock Christison, d-3 George Robotham, e-3 John Rousby, e-3 |
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1. The November 1681 session was actually a continuation of the third session, which had been adjourned, rather than prorogued, on September 17, 1681. For convenience it is counted here as a separate session.
2. Before leaving the colony in June 1676, Charles Calvert, 3rd Lord Baltimore, commissioned his infant son Cecilius as nominal governor, and Councilor Jesse Wharton, his stepson-in-law, as deputy governor. Wharton died within a month, and as predetermined by Calvert, Notley became Wharton's successor. Speaker of the first session, Notley was now elevated to the Council. Notley presided over the second session, but died in April 1679.
3. There is no evidence that he attended any of the three sessions of this Assembly at which he was eligible to sit.
4. Although four delegates were elected from each county for this Assembly, Charles Calvert actually summoned only two delegates per county for the first session, an action that caused much discontent. All elected members received the proper summonses for subsequent sessions. Those individuals known to have been present at the first session were Thomas Notley, John Coode, Joseph Wickes, William Burgess, Thomas Brooke, Richard Hall, John Douglass, Robert Henley, Henry Adams, Philemon Lloyd, John Edmundson, William Stevens, Kenelm Cheseldyne, and Robert Carvile, the latter being summoned after the Assembly convened at the special request of the Lower House.
5. Definitely present at the fifth session, when he signed a declaration with other delegates; he may have been elected to the fourth session, but the records are incomplete.
6. Returned to England in 1681 on business arising from his controversies with Lord Baltimore over the collection of customs duties; he missed the third through the fifth sessions.
7. Voters of Charles County attempted to elect Fendall to the vacancy created by John Allen's death, but the Council issued a clear warning that he was ineligible to sit because of the prohibition placed on his holding office after his overthrow of the proprietary government in 1659/60.
8. The journal of the fifth session mentions a Capt. Thomas Smith as a member, and the records of the third session refer to both a Mr. Smith and Capt. Henry Smith of Somerset County. The reference may represent a clerical error, or Thomas Smith may have replaced Samuel Tovey of Kent County, who was excused from the second session for illness and may have subsequently resigned.
9. Calvert sought the dismissal of Coode from membership in the Assembly at its third session for Coode's alleged conspiracy with Josias Fendall earlier in 1681. The Lower House strenuously and successfully resisted the effort to unseat one of its members on as yet unproven charges.
10. Hill, who was serving as sheriff in 1676 and 1677, was apparently elected to replace Thomas Notley.
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