442 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1692-1694.

Liber K.

mittee of Plantations &c^a the Lords of the Treasury & the
Commsrs of their Majestys Customs containing chiefly matters
of Complaint against two of their Majestys Officers of Con-
siderable Posts within this Province we send you under a
flying Seal for your Perusuall and afterwards delivery
according to directions, we must request you as our Agent
to appear to and manage the same on our behalf their inso-
lencies & behaviour has been such and so frequently put in
Practice that it is become almost insupportable as p the
inclosed Copys of Depositions and the Contents of our Letters
you will perceive which we doubt not in a short time we shall
be able to back and confirm with other proofs and evidences
of the like nature & transmitt it to you for your further Gov-
ernment & Instructions in the management of our Concerns
which we wholly recommend to your prudence and discretion
and no ways doubt of your Integrety therein in confidence

whereof we rest

Sir your Servants
L: Copley Tho Tench
N Blakiston In^o Courts
Nic Greenberry Tho Brooke

At the same time was also ordered to be writ & sent this
foll^o Letter from the Councill to the said M^r Peter Paggen (viz^t)

Maryland Dec^r 21^st 1692
M^r Paggen
S^r
M^r Francis Nicholson our L^t Governor being lately gone for
England upon some private Sinister Acco^t as we have occa-
sion to suspect we take this opportunity to acquaint you as
our Agent therew^th desiring you to be very diligent in watching
his motions and if he shall offer any thing on his own behalf or
otherwise in prejudice to this Government or our present
Governor (who we are throughly sensible hath demeaned
himself with that apparent Loyalty good conduct prudence
and Integrety to the honour of their Majestys and the generall
Satisfaction of the whole Country that we are bound to pray

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for his continuance amongst us, and cannot well hear of any
ill against him Wee desire you will appear on our Behalfs to
defend the same by representing to their Majestys and the
Lords of the Committee or wheresoever it shall happen to be
the true and Genuine Character we have given you of one,
and the Contrary Disposition of the other, not unknown (we
presume) to you and most people upon the late revolution
wherein he did in no small measure demonstrate his inclina-
tions and aversion to the present Constitution and frame of