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346 Correspondence of Governor Sharpe.
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Letter Bk. IV
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so much Weight as to incline them to pursue reasonable
measures & undeceive their Constituents who have been
hitherto imposed on & by false Stories propagated at seasonable
times been made to believe that Your Ldp was really averse
to any Persons being made acquainted with the Reason that
no Supplies have been lately granted here for the Kind's Ser-
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vice or the immediate Defence of the Province. As it is now
more than two months since I sent Mr Calvert Authenticated
Copies of the two Acts of Assembly that were made in 1651
& 1661, Your Ldp has I hope before this time received them
but lest that Vessel should have been lost I shall by a Gentle-
man that intends to take his Passage from Philaa for London
very shortly transmit other Copies of those Acts that if Your
Ldp pleases to submit them for Mr Pratt's Opinion concerning
the Propriety or Reasonableness of Your Ldp's Quit Rents
being taxed nothing may be wanting that I can furnish for his
Information. I flatter myself Your Ldp has long ago received
the Letter I took the Liberty to address to you the 16th of
Decemr last together with the Copies of Letters which I had
received from the several County Courts relative to & in
Commendation of the Behaviour of the Roman Catholicks in
the several Parts of the Province, I hope likewise that Your
Ldp is convinced by what has passed between me & the
Lower House at several times when they have discovered an
earnest Desire to persecute those people that as well in Obe-
dience to Your Ldp's Commands as in Compliance with the
Dictates of my own Conscience I was determined to oppose
their unjust Attempts & Your Ldp may depend & be assured
that unless the Roman Catholicks shall hereafter give very
sufficient Cause I will not assent to any Act which any of
them may judge severe or unreasonably partial with respect
to Persons of their Religious Persuasion. It gives me great
pleasure that I can inform Your Ldp that most of the Troops
wch were to be employed this Summer on the Ohio have
reached Pittsburg or are far advanced on their March thither,
that a considerable quantity of Provisions has been at length
carried to that Post, & that according to the last Accounts
from that Quarter there is great reason to hope that all the
Tribes of Indians which were lately so formidable & trouble-
some to the Frontier Inhabitants of these three Provinces are
inclined to make a League with Us & by trading henceforward
with none but the English to make up in some measure for
the Expence that they have put us to since they thought fit to
commence Hostilities. As the Packet by which I propose to
transmit this will not probably sail before the Fate of Ticon-
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deroga & Crown Point is determined any Account I can send
of the late Situation or Motions of His Majesty's Forces in
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