372 Correspondence of Governor Sharpe.

answer My Lord's Expectation, the beforementioned three
Rentals consist only of Estates in fee held in the said Counties
& they not specifying the different Rates of the Annual Rents
the several quantities of Acres are respectively held at to prove
the Rents in Charge to be rightly computed; nor the proper
References from whence they are taken out of the Records of
the Land Office for procuring the Numbers of Acres granted
& the Rates of Annual Rents reserved on each Grant to be
the same as in Charge; are the Deficiencies to be rectified in
these three Rent Rolls as well as the other Observation sent
to M^r Lloyd which have arisen thereon.
From M^r Lloyd is lately received £3181. o. 3 to My Lord's
Account & a Sketch of his Account for 1754 but with the said
Sketch he has neither sent the Land Office, Naval Officers nor
any other Accounts or Vouchers to support & prove it — tis a
peculiar Conduct; all Agents having annually transmitted
compleat Accompts to the 29^th of Sept^r his Delay is not only in
this respect therefore can't be submitted to much longer,
His Lordship hearing it with uneasiness & in Defiance of
Duty to his Affairs essential; he thereupon recommends to
your serious Consideration concerning M^r Lloyd's Deficiency,
& that you'll in Case he questions his Duty to accept of his
Resignation & appoint another more for the purpose to the
carrying on his Affairs so important, as particularly the Requisi-
tions thereof do relate to his Honour & Support of Life — M^r
Lloyd seems by the Tenor of his Let^r full of lealousie he says

" he wishes that all Offices that of necessity in Virtue of
my Post I must have the Inspection into the Offices therein,
I hope may be so far approved by me as to have my recom^dn
otherwise Sir a Man greatly opposite to me in sentiments if
not otherwise unfit may be appointed by w^h means you can
supose His Lord^ps affairs would be but 111 Conducted." His
Lord^p doubts not y^r Circumspection & Counteance to him &
of future Agents concern'd in his Revenues with regard to
their recom^dns that you'l consent & accept thereof so far as is
consistent with good Policy & Circumstance of Affairs. M^r
Lloyds Drift is, to get M^r Charles Goldsbfough into Place
(of w^h he mentions his offer to you) My Lord will not admit
him, unless by recom^dn from you. I have hinted him so, & that
it is out of my Power to Medle it being with My Lord & you.
And I shall do so on all such request to me, a Caution due to
y^r Rank & scitituation in the Province. And to that Effect I
have now write to M^r Dulany to address you as the way
to advance with favour with My Lord.
I have been in hopes thro y^r Brothers Iohn & W^ms Interests
you wo^d have rec^d His Majesty's Comissⁿ as Col: of one of the
new Battallions to be raised in America (tis due to y^r Service)
not any thing has been wanting in me to render you such