566 Proceedings 0/ the Council of Maryland, 1692-1694.

Liber K.

Nicholson Esq^r as are there mentioned & thereupon the Clerk
hav^g by Order as we Conceive prepared a Letter for us to

sign it was tendered to us & we desired to sign it which we
did but never after heard any proof of those Allegations nor
any thing more of them but since that upon better acquaint-
ance & knowledge of his Ex^cllcy Gov^r Nicholson we find the
direct Contrary principles in him to what was then asserted
that he is so far from disaffecting the then & present consti-
tution of Government that it hath been his greatest Care &
Study to preserve & improve the same by the best measures
& means he can And as to Countenancing Papists &c^a we
find nothing in him tending that way unless it be his Admin-
istring Iustice to them where it is due without distinguishing
one Sect from another but on the Contrary our Iournals of
Assembly & all other Records make appear & we are assured
that none has ever done more by his perswasions Example &
large Gifts to propagate the Protestant Religion in this prov-
ince than he

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This we thought our selves obliged in Iustice to say to your
Lordships to vindicate the honour of his Excellency & wipe of
the aforesaid Reflections in a manner imposed on

To the right Honble
the Lords of the Coun-
cil for the Committee of
trade & foreign Plantations j

Your Lordships
most humble Serv^ts
Nich Greenberry
Tho^s Tench
Iohn Courts
Tho Brooke