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wee may regulate ours relating to the Shipping here accord-
ingly to the best advantage for his Maj^tys Service.
I am Your Hon^rs most humble Servant
J^no Coode.

Maryland. 20^th Jan^ry 1689.
Copy of a letter from M^r Coode
to M^r Bacon P^r of Virginia.
Rec^{d 1}4^thAprill 1690.
from M^r Coode.

To the Right Hon^ble the Lords of the Committee
for Trade and Plantations.
11^th Jan^ry 1689/90.
The Petition of Charles Lord Baltemore.
Humbly Sheweth.
That your Petitioner was ordered to attend your Lordships
on Tuesday the 7^th instant, which he did, and brought with him
several Persons, Inhabitants and Traders of the Province of
Maryland, who have had long knowledge of your Petitioner's
manner of Government there, that your Petitioner was then
ordered by your Lordships to attend His Majesty in Councill
upon the Thursday following, which accordingly your Peti-
tioner did with the Persons aforesaid but was told by M^r
Blathwayt your Petitioner was again referred to your Lord-
ships, whose order your Petitioner hath received to attend to
this day.
Your Petitioner humbly prays your Ld^ps that you will
be pleased to grant him a hearing before yo^r Lordships
concerning the present disturbances and troubles in
the said Province of Maryland, in order to the quiet
resetling the same in the hands of your Pet^rs Dep^tys
& Officers, that Law & Justice (by these troubles
obstructed) may again have their due course to the
general good of his Maj^tys Subjects there, and that
your Lordships will be pleased to admit the Inhabitants
and Traders aforesaid to speak their knowledge in any-
thing relating to the Affairs of the said Province.
And y^r Pet^r shall ever pray etc.

Rec^d the 11^th Jan^ry 1689/90.
The Lord Baltimore's Petition.

Humble Proposalls of Charles L^d Baltemore
to the R^t Hon^ble the Lords of the Committee
for Trade and Plantations.
14^th Jan^ry 1689/90.
That those Persons that are in Commission for Dep^tys, Coun-

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