208 Correspondence of Governor Sharpe,

Letter Bk. IV

hend be also necessary to insert the Substance of His Ldp's
particular Order in the Preamble of the Patents I am &c.

[Sharpe to Baltimore.]

To Lord Baltimore the 11^th of July 1765.
My Lord
I embrace the first Opportunity that has offered since I had
the Satisfaction to receive the Letters your Ldp was pleased
to favour me with the seventh & 9^th of Feb^ry last to congratu-
late Your Ldp on your happy Return to your native Country
in good health & to assure your Ldp that the Intelligence gave
me the most sensible pleasure: with the Letters I likewise
received your Ldp's several Instructions dated the 16 of Jan^y
& 7^th & 26^th of Feb^ry one of them signifying your Ldp's
Approbation of several Acts of Assembly passed here during
your Absence from England, Another of them containing your
Ldps Sentiments on the Proceedings of the two Houses of
Assembly with regard to a Bill for quieting Possessions &
Enrolling Conveyances. A Third containing your Ldp's
Appointment of M^r Holliday to be a Member of the Council,
another directing me to appoint M^r Walter Dulany Naval
Officer of Potuxent which is already done, the fifth & sixth
containing Orders for the Sale of sundry Mannours & Reserve
Lands, & for Leasing such Parts of Talbot's Mannour as lies
northward of the Temporary Line but will on the true Lines
being run fall into this Province: Upon which two last Instruc-
tions I have wrote very fully to M^r Calvert desiring him to lay
the same before your Lordship, nevertheless I shall take the
liberty to communicate to your Ldp the Substance of what I
have written to him with regard to those Instructions. When
in Obedience to your Ldp's order the several Gentlemen to
whom the Instruction about the mannours was address't had
met at my House & considered the Contents of it Col^o Lloyd
was desired to inform us how the Mannour & Reserved
Lands therein referred to were circumstanced he said that he
apprehended some parts of the Mannours had since they were
originally laid out been sold & and that a great part of what
remained had also been long ago leased for three Lives or
very long Terms on small Rents, & he produced Lists of
sundry Tenants who at present hold parts of such Mannours,
but as he could not give us such full & satisfactory Informa-
tion as was necessary to enable us to form a Judgment of the
Value of the Land not Tenanted, & of the Value of the Land
& Improvements on what was leased, nor whether the selling
some Parts would not greatly reduce the Value of the Rest
The Gentlemen were all of opinion that no Step ought to be