Assembly Proceedings, April — May 1669. 177

ances that is part with his royal Jurisdiction granted by his
Pattent to the Assembly they will not proceed to any Business
as they formerly Voted he desires them to call in all the Mem-
bers of the House & to put it to the Question & upon their Jour-
nail to Enter every particular Member's Consent or dissassent
to that Vote, & let the Vote be signed by the Speaker that he
may if he find they are Resolved to do no Business make an
End of this Assembly —

Then came three Members of the Lower House & declared
that they were sent by the Lower to let this House know that
they were very willing and ready to go about the Country's
Business & in order thereunto did desire to have the Acts of
the last Year's Levy

The House Adjourned till nine of the Clock in
the Morning

Friday 23^d April 1669

Present The honourable Charles Calvert Esq^r
Philip Calvert Esq^e Jerome White Baker Brooke
Henry Coursey Tho^s Trueman & W^m Calvert Esq^es

Ordered that the Chancellour & some of the Members of
this House go to the Lower House and require them to raze
the mutinous & seditious Votes contained in the paper En-
tituled The Publick Grievances delivered into this House by
the Speaker the 20^th April last out of their Journall Before
which is done this House is Resolved to treat with them no
further It being adjudged in this House that it is an Arraign-
ment of the Lord Proprietor the Governor & Council

The House is Adjourned till after Dinner

At two of the Clock in the Afternoon The House met
again
Present as before

Then came from the Lower House this following Message
Viz.
Friday 23^d April 1669

U. H.
Journal
1659-98

Ordered that M^r Rob^t Slye Co^l Nathaniel Utye Cap^t W^m
Burgess M^r Tho^s Taylor M^r Richard Boughton M^r Samuel
Withers M^r Daniel Clark & M^r Robert Dunn do carry this
message to the upper House (viz) that this House having con-
sidered of the paper in writing sent to this House this Morn-
ing by the Upper House by a Member thereof have Voted the
same Paper to tend very much to the dishonour & breach of

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