Assembly Proceedings, April — May 1669. 179

W^m Calvert Esq^e: was sent to the Lower House to desire a
Conference with them this Afternoon who returned & said that
he had communicated the message to the Speaker Who
answered that there was several absent from the House so that
till Monday Morning they could receive no Message Where-
upon the said W^m Calvert requested the Speaker to send for
the Members into the House being all under the same roof
Which he did suppose was but a small request & tending to
the Furtherance of Business. The Speaker answered he could
not receive any Message till Monday Morning

The House Adjourned till seven of the Clock on Monday
Morning

Monday 26^th April 1669 Present as before
The House Adjourned till after Dinner

The House met again Present The Governour & the rest
as before

Then came the Lower House to the Conference at which
was read this following paper viz.

Gentlemen —
We the Upper House did patiently wait your leisure till this
Morning in expectation of the Conference We desired with You
on Saturday last But We found ourselves disappointed with
your sudden Adjournment till two of the Clock this Afternoon.
We desire a good Correspondence & therefore We will put no
sinister Interpretation upon your Actions but leave the first to
be interpreted by the last, wise & good mens actions being
commonly of one dye, & like the Links of a Chain coupled
together by the necessary Consequence of right Reason, if You
be the men the Countys that sent You imagined You were at
your Election viz prudent & seeking the common Good, You
will use no further delays but come to a present Conference
upon the ways and means to salve the Soars You have Caused,
& to stop the Breach you first made by your paper dated 20
April & after widened by your Vote of the 23^d April
What was said or Writt by us in answer to those papers was
but necessary defence of the Lord Proprietors Rights & our
own Innocence. If You will upon your own Journal acknow-
ledge you ought not to stile the Lord Proprietors Rights
Grievances Which in the paper of the 20^th April are stiled so
(Viz) Article the first & second, and that in the 3^d Article

U. H.
Journal
1659-98

You were mistaken in saying the last Year's Levy was raised
against the Lord Proprietary's Charter the Law of the Province
and Consent of the Freemen, The Upper House will enter upon

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