Proceedings of the Council of Maryland^ 1684-89. 445

May it please your Majesty
Wee have received a letter from the Mayor, Aldermen and
principal officers of the City of New York dated the 13^th of
May last, setting forth that since your Majesty hath been
pleased to permit Delaware and the two Ierseys to be seperated
from the Government of New-York, that City hath extreamly
suffered by the loss of at least one third Part of its trade, and
hath ever since much decayed in the number of Inhabitants,
Rents and Buildings, and that your Majesty's Revenue doth
likewise suffer thereby, whereupon wee offer our opinions that
your Majesty's Attorney General may have directions to con-
sider the several Grants and proprieties of East and West New
Iersey and of Delaware aforementioned and to enter writts of
Quo Warranto against the respective Proprietors thereof, if He
shall find cause, it being of very great and growing prejudice
to Your Majesty's Affaires in the Plantations and to your Cus-
toms here that such independent Goverments be Kept up and
maintained without a nearer and more immediate dependence
on your Majesty
All which is most humbly submitted
Rochester, Halifax P. Clarendon C. P. S.
Ormond. Beaufort
Council chamber
15. Iuly 1685.

His Majesty being graciously pleased to approve of the
same is pleased to Order that M^r Attorney General do forth-
with consider of the several Grants and Proprieties of East and
West New-Iersey and of Delaware, and Enter Writts of Quo
Warranto against the respective Proprietors thereof, if he shall
find cause. W^m Bridgman.

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At the Court at Whitehall
the 17^th of July 1685.

Present.
The King's most Excellent Majesty
in Council
After reading this day at the Board the Answer of the Lord
Baltemore Proprietary of Maryland to the Complaints against
his Officers there, his Majesty was pleased to order a Copy of
the said Answer to be forthwith sent to the Cornm^rs of his
Majesty's Customs and that they together with the said Lord
Baltemore attend his Majesty in Council upon that matter in
this day sennight being the 24^th inst. W. Bridgman.

17^th July 1685.
Order for Lord Baltemore and the
Comm^rs of the Customs to attend
the 24^th

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