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safe nor secure by reason of his Lordships unexpected claim
which obliged George Markham to consult the persons of his
Council most concerned in the Province, who was not willing
he should at this time go out of the Province but remain, to
quiett the disturbed People and therefore advised him to write
to the Lord Baltemore.

W^m Markham Gent, maketh oath that all the contents within
mentioned are true, to the best of his knowledge.
W^m Markham.

(Indorsed) Information touching
My Lord Baltemore at Upland.

Sworn before the Committee
March 17^th 1684/5

To Answer my Lord Baltemores letter to me of the 11^th
July 1682. will be sufficient to clear myself of what he hath
charged me with until that day- it being a repetition of the
Jornall be kept, but cannot begin my Answer with the begin-
ning of his letter, he having begun with the end of the story.
The Letter I sent my Lord from the head of the Bay, bore date
the 25^th of Sept" 81. occasioned by my long passage up thither
having spent most of the time I intended for my journey to
New York, or to have sent thither to borrow Col. Morrises
Instrument by which I desired tenn days longer. After I got
home (being very ill) sent a second letter to my Lord which he
mentions the receipt of, but before it came to his hand I had
one from him of the 10^th Sept" 81 (which he cunningly would
avoid mentioning) wherein he tells me he could not come up
that year for fear of the frost; but would wholely lay the not
meeting that year to me. To mine of the 17^th March 81/2 I
might reasonably have expected an Answer before the 22^nd of
May, which was the day I received his of the 14^th Ibid in
which he tells me he had ended his Sessions of Assembly, and
setting his business in order, to meet me the beginning of next
month, without regard to any Affairs of mine, the which at
that time was very urgent, for having engaged to pay the
Indians for the land I had bought of them before the middle of
June, in expectation of which they deferr'd their hunting
till it was almost too late for that year, and if they had gone
before I had payed them we could not have had any land that
year to seat the people on that dayly came there, it being our
custom not to bye any land on bought of the natives, a thing
my Lord Baltemore's a stranger to having taken all his by
force, never purchased any of the poor natives, nor did he
once mention his having an Instrument I desired by mine,
altho' he knew I had none, but that had sent to New York to

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