also been dangerously ill for some time but he is now on the
Recovery, I have made him acquainted with Your Ldp's
Instructions concerning & Favour towards him & will as soon
as there is a Council & he can attend have him qualified
agreeable to Your Ldp's Order, I do not know whether M^r
Tasker will now choose to resign in his Favour or not but I
am very glad Your Ldp has been pleased to leave that to
themselves. I have not seen Colo Lloyd since I received your
Ldp's Instructions but he has promised to come over very

shortly, I shall then press him to exchange with M^r Thomas
& hope he will no longer refuse to comply with what is so
reasonable & what Your Ldp is pleased to require. I beg
leave to acquaint Your Ldp in Answer to the Instruction that
you have at Mess^rs Hanburys Request been pleased to give
me concerning M^r Wolstenholme their Agent or Factor here,

that I should without any such Direction from your Ldp have
served M^r Wolstenholme if it had been in my Power. The
Connection that he has with M^r Hanbury as well as my own
Regard for him which was confirmed during our Voyage to
Maryland would have induced me to provide for him agree-
able to his Inclinations & indeed did induce me to offer him
the Sheveralty of this County which I was surprized to hear
him refuse; if he had accepted it would have been worth at
least £200 a year to him & I beleive there is no other Person
in the Province in his situation that would have declined
my Offer, indeed he told me that if I would serve him
I must give him a place that he could execute by Dep-
uty for that he could not think of accepting any that
would require his own Attendance. This being the Case
I know not what to do for him, there is no Office that
would suit him but a Naval Office & Your Ldp knows
that there is none of them vacant. I have writ to M^r Han-
bury more than once & acquainted him with its being out of
my Power to provide for M^r Wolstenholme for the reasons
that I have now mentioned, but I beg leave to observe to
Your Ldp that by the Acts of Assembly which have been
lately made for His Majesty's Service M^r Wolstenholme is
appointed one of the Agents as I presume your Ldp has been
informed, this is worth near £300 p Ann to him which is

more than any office that I have the Disposal of brings in
clear & almost as much as I have been myself able to save in
any one year. It might perhaps be urged that he is endebted
for this Office to the Assembly only as his Name was inserted
in the Bill by the Lower House but as the other Branches of
the Legislature had it in their power to object to him & did
not I cannot but think that some Acknowledgment is due to
them likewise. I ask Your Ldp's Pardon for being so prolix