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instance the said Colonies to have taken the Rules of England
in Some Proceedings wherein the Lower house do Differ from
them and yet in Such Proceedings the Lower House pretend
a Right and Priviledge to themselves from the Proceedings of
Parliament in England which this house must still Wonder at—
2dly That Several Priviledges of Parliament are in no ways
Convenient and Practicable in this Province or other his Maj-
esties Colonies & therefor this house is of the Same Opinion
as before—
3dly.—That this house never likened the Freemen of this
Province to a Conquered People, nor did this house in any
Sort intend by the word Conquest that the People of Maryland
were Subject to Arbitrary Laws and impositions and his Lord-
ship hopes that this Government has no way Deserved that
Severe Reflection, and as little that his Lordship Should be
Swayed by Strange and evill Councill, which Expressions his
Lordship thinks not very civil, and is Confident came not from
the Speaker and greater part of the house—
4th: That this house do well know that his Lordships Charter
doth Sufficently Provide for an Honourable Government which
his Lordship and this House Conceives this Government has
been Esteemed ever to be And that for the Freemen of this
Province it has also Provided Rights and Priviledges but not
Such as the Lower house have last Jnsisted upon—
Therefore Since Some particular Persons of the Lower
house have so Strangely Misunderstood the True Sense of
what at the Chancellor was Yesterday Ordered to Deliver the
Lower house (and which at the request of the Said house was
afterwards Sent them in Writing) this house does think it
Safest now to be Short by Assuring the Lower house that his
Lordship has been at all times ready to Oblige and Shew his
kindness to the Good People of this Province and as a farther
Testimony thereof his Lordship is Willing to Order the Jssuing

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out of Writts for the Supplying the Vacant places Provided
the Lower house will think fitt to request it as a thing that
will Oblige (at this time) the Inhabitants of this Province of
whom they are the Representatives, and this we hope will be
Sufficient for the Satisfaction of all Persons that Govern them-
selves by reason and not altogether by Will—
Signed p^r Order
p^r J LLewellin Cl of the Assembly—

Sent to the Lower house p^rthe Secretary and Col Darnall—
they return again into this house—
A Petition presented to this house by Henry Stockett of
Ann Arundell County praying the Confirmation of a Iudgment
Obtained by him against Robert Peca and the Quashing of all

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