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318 Correspondence of Governor Sharpe.
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Letter Bk. IV
p. 25
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Ldp may see if you shall be pleased to peruse the Copy of it
which you will herewith receive, but the Gentln of the Lower
House refused to pass it without many Amendments & these
the Upper House would not agree to, being of Opinion that
the Bill as it was first drawn was severe enough & sufficient
to answer every good End that could be desired by any Prot-
estants who delighted not in Persecution. The Step which
the Gentn of the Upper House had taken in proposing such a
Bill, added to the Report which the Iustices had made had
this Effect however that it quieted the minds of the People &
silenced those who had endeavoured to inflame & terrify
them. I have since ordered another Circular Letter to be
wrote & sent to the Justices desiring them to enquire again
& inform me how the Roman Catholicks in the several
Counties have behaved since they the Justices made their last
Report, in a Packet marked No 2 I shall transmit Your Ldp
Copies of all their Answers which will I am apt to think incline
Your Ldp to believe that the Roman Catholicks who are
among us continue to behave as behoves good Subjects &
upon the Whole My Ld I must say that if I was asked whether
the Conduct of the Protestants or Papists in this Province hath
been most unexceptionable since 1 have had the honour to
serve Your Ldp I should not hesitate to give an Answer in
favour of the Latter.
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Letter Bk. III
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[Sharpe to Forbes.]
Annapolis the 30th of Decemr 1758.
Sir
Colo Dagworthy having intimated to me that he intends to
repair immediately to Head Quarters to receive Your farther
Commands, I embrace the Opportunity to congratulate Your
Excellency on the Success of His Majestys Forces under Your
Command & to inform you that a few Days before Colo Dag-
worthy arrived here with the most agreeable News of your
Excellencys having forced the French to abandon Fort Du
Quesne & the Ohio Country, our Lower House of Assembly
had prepared a Bill for repaying as they said the Money
which Your Excellency & Mr Kilby were pleased to advance
last Summer on the Credit of the Province for paying off all
the Arrears that should be due to the Maryland Troops at the
End of the Campaign & for supporting three Companies of
them during the winter I am sorry however to inform Your
Excellency that the Gentln took Care to frame their Bill in
such a manner as they knew would not be agreed to by the
Upper House it being almost in every respect the same that
had been offered by them three times before & had been as
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