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532 Correspondence of Governor Sharpe.
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Letter Bk. III
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knowledgments for this Instance of Your Friendship as well
as for Your kind Endeavour to prevail on Mr Calvert to
appoint him his Deputy, Having myself many Reasons to
wish that Mr Calvert would have done so I wrote to him pretty
pressingly immediately on Colo Tasker's Decease but a"s I
knew Mr Bordley had likewise sollicited the Office for himself
I did not entertain very sanguine Expectations. By the An-
swer I received to my Letter I find it was at first Resolved
that Mr Bordley should be appointed (indeed Mr Calvert wrote
a Letter to him to that purport) if he would engage to pay
out of the Fees of the Office £100 a year more than Colo
Tasker or his Predecessor had ever done, but if Mr Bordley
should decline to accept on those Conditions then Mr Ridout
was to be continued paying still more than was required of
Mr Bordley, but just after these Letters & Instructions were
signed a Letter it seems was received from Mr Dulany at that
time our Commissary Genl wherein he likewise desired to be
appointed D Secretary & accordingly an Additional Instruc-
tion was transmitted to me in his favour to the no small Mor-
tification of M.r Bordley. Had the latter been appointed in
Colo Tasker's Stead he was to have resigned one of the
Offices he now holds Value £200 (& not £400 a Year to Mr
Ridout, & as by the Additional Instruction he was to be
appointed Commissary in Mr Dulany's Stead He was also to
have resigned the other, but he did not choose to make the
Exchange, so instead of Mr Bordley I have now appointed Mr
Ridout Commissary & desired His Ldp to confirm my appoint-
ment (at least untill some other Place may be made or become
vacant) which if he does I believe Mr Ridout will be better off
than if he had held the other Office on the Terms proposed,
unless Mr Calvert should also insist on his paying him more
out of the Fees of this Office than any Commissary has yet
paid. In a Letter which Mr Calvert was pleased to write to
Mr Ridout upon being advised of my having appointed him
his Deputy he expressed much Satisfaction thereat professing
himself his Friend &c. & in the Letter whereby I was directed
to issue Commissions as is above mentioned he tells me that
he should have been glad to continue Mr Ridout had not
Lord Baltimore entertaining a very favourable Opinion of his
Abilities punctuality &c. signified his Intention "to keep him
to his own purpose " intimating that His Ldp being dissatisfied
with the Management & Dilitoriness of his present Agent &
Receiver Genl has Thoughts of appointing Mr Ridout his Suc-
cessor. In answer to the observation you make on a Sup-
position that Mr Ridout must have already received great
Advantages by living with me I do assure you that except
what I gave him in lieu of the Salary which the Doctor by his
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