in the Years 1691-92. 291

(Endorsed)
Referrence of the L^d Baltemores
Petition for the in
Maryland.

Coll Copley to Ld President.

10^th Dec: 91:
My Lord
I beg yr lordps pardon for the trouble I so often give you:
the enclosed is a Peticon for an Order ab^t my dues from the
shipping in Maryland for the yeares 1689 & 1690 of w^ch I have
not reced a penny and those Comanders are now a goeing
againe to that Province and soe shall not receive any thing
here for those two past yeares, and therefore humbly beg
by this Peticon for an Order to receive it of them in Maryld
when next they arrive there y^r Lordps favour here in will pre-
serve from Ruine
Y^r Lord^ps Most
My Ld Obedient & most
humble servt
C Baltemore.
xb^r 16^th 1691.
(Endorsed)
Coll^o Copleys letter to My
Ld President touching money
owed on the Maryland bills
To the Right Honourable the
Ld President
these most humbly present

P. R. O.

Maryland
B. I. Vol. 2,
B. F.

p. 37

The Memoriall of S^r Thomas Lawrence.

May it please yo^r Lords^ps
S^r Thomas Lawrence having presented a memoriall to yo^r
Lords^ps complaning that he apprehends that I have some
intentions to lessen the Fees and perquisites belonging to his
place of Secretary of Maryland, Yo^r Lords^ps have commanded
my answer to it in obedience to which I answer that his appre-
hensions are groundless for that uppon his very early shewing
me his temper by rasing disputes with me uppon these imagi-
nary suggestions to himselfe I have toulde him that I am
allmost as greate a strainger to the Fees and business of sec-
retary of Maryland as himselfe but that the Fees now settled
uppon him by act of Assembly shall and must be saife to him;
and I doo further assure yo^r Lords^ps (for my owne sake) I will
never breake in uppon any Law of that Collony to hurte S^r

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