220 Records Illustrating the History of Maryland

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Maryland
B. I. Vol. 2,
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this Province and they the said persons themselves the Judges
therein.
10. Writt of Error granted or denyed at the Arbritrary will
and pleasure of the said Judges as they assert or disassert the
cause or persons suejng for the same,
p E. B. Jowles. Henry Trippe
Ne^a Blakiston John Thomas.
Rich: Gassaway Tho: Stavy.
Nicholas Greenberry Edward Jones
John Edmondson J^no Coode
Geo: Robotham Kenelm Cheseldyn
David Browne. Rob: King.
John Courts. Ninion Beale.
John Brooke.

(Endorsed)
Articles against My Lord Baltemore.
Rec^d 22 Nov: 1691.

p. 44

Councells Letter to Lord Baltemore.

May it please your Lordspps
Wee herewith (to yo^r Ldspp^s) transmit a perticuler of our
proceedings in the last Sessions of Assembly not only by this
our accompt thereof but by the Journall of each Dayes pas-
sages which with these your Lordspps will (wee hope) receive
in the begining whereof yo^r Lordspps will find the heates and
debates wee had with the Lower house about the Oath of
Fedelity to your Ldspps which wee insisted upon the rather
and indeed cheifly for that yo^r Lordspps last-Expressions to
the Assembly in 84. was that for the future your Lordspps did
expect that every Member of Assembly should take the Oath
of Fidelity before they should be admitted to sitt In pursuance
whereof the Government did in the Assembly of 86. propose
the said Oath to the Lower house who excused it at that time
saying that had it been proposed to them in time they would
have taken it but that then they were entred upon other buis-
iness and the like for which and other reasons the Govern-
ment did not then further press the same But at opening of
this Assembly wee humbly conceived it was our duty to cause
Complyance to yo^r Ldspps said demands in 84. and in order
thereunto wee resolved to be early with them in this and
accordingly it was by the Presidents Speech to both houses
given them in charge to which the Upper house readily obeyed
But the Lower house by no means would comply upon which
hott and high debates did arrise and the more they refused to
sweare Fidelity to yo^r L^dspps the more reason wee had to dis-