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the other side, I should not think our hearts and tongues went
together.
Your Lordshipps
most obedient and most
humble & faithful Servant
W^m Digges.

Maryland
11^th June 1685.
Extract of a letter from M^r Digges.
Read the 1^st August 1685.

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Mem^d On the second of July 1685. the following Letter
from his Majesty is delivered for the Lord Baltemore

Right Trusty and welbeloved, wee greet you well. As wee
have with great satisfaction received the ready and dutiful
assurances and expressions of loyalty and obedience from our
good subjects under your Government since our accession to
the Crown, so shall wee at all times extend our royall care and
protection to them in the preservation of their Rights And in
the defence and security of their persons and estates which wee
think fit that you signify unto the Councill and Assembly of
that our Colony, As also upon meeting of our Parliament they
have for the Repairs of our Navy, and for providing stores for
our Navy and Ordnance and other our important Occasions
chearfully and unanimously given and granted unto Us an Ayd
and assistance to be raised and levyed upon all Tobacco and
sugar to be imported into this our Kingdom according to such
rates and during such time and in such manner and form as by
the Act herewith sent you is more particularly set forth, Which
imposition as it is not layd on the Planter or Merchant but only
upon the Retaylor, Consumptioner or Shop-Keeper, Wee are
well assured will not be burthensome or inconvenient to our
subjects under your Government but that on the contrary it
will be of great benefit, credit and advantage to them by the
enabling us the better to defend and protect the navigation of
this Kingdom and the Trade of our Plantations, which cannot
but be of great satisfaction and security to the inhabitants of
that our Colony.
Wee have likewise thought fit to acquaint you for the inform-
ation of our subjects under your Government, that the peace
and quiet of our Kingdom of Scotland has received some dis-
turbances from the Traiterous practices and rebellion of the
late Earl of Argyle by his landing in the West High-Lands
with men and arms, but that it has pleased Almighty God to
deliver that Traitor and his rebellious followers into our hands,
so that upon seizing his Ships and Arms and materials of war

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