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nies set the Example ours will also soon force the Officers of
the several Courts to issue Writs &c on Common Paper & I
assure your Ldp that when the People are so unanimous in
opposing the Execution of a Law as they are on this Occasion
nothing but a Military Force can procure Obedience to it. I
am &c.

Letter Bk. IV

[Hamersley to Sharpe.]
S^r
I am hon^d with Lord Baltimore's Commands, to acquaint
you with his Lordships great surprize and uneasiness at the
Silence and neglect of Coll Loyd his Principal Land Agent,
who has not favoured his Lordship with a remittance, or even
Letter, these 14 months past. Had any Calamity Publick or
Private occasioned this Disappointment, his Lordship Pre-
sumes you wo^d have been the first to have Informed him of it.
The arrival of Ships from the Province has been as usual, and
the Correspondence between you and his Lordship, and
other Gentⁿ in Maryland, has proceeded in its regular and
uninterrupted course. To what cause or accident then to
impute this conduct his Lordship is at a Loss to guess, but is
too sensible of the great Inconveniencys and distress it lays
him under in the arrangement of his own private affairs. His
Lordship therefore requests you will take the earliest oppor-
tunity of seeing and expostulating with M^r Loyd, and if the
proper remittance are not already made, that you will Accele-
rate them to the utmost, and Instruct his Lordship in the
reasons of the delay. He likewise desires you will procure
from M^r Loyd a State of his Account to be brought as forward
as possible, that he may know the reall situation of his affairs,
and hopes you and M^r Loyd will be able to adjust some Plan
to render his future remittances less Dilatory and precarious,
for his Lordship thinks it hard to Starve with so Noble a
Patrimony, and, If the Revenue does not keep pace with the
expences it brings with it, it is little better. M^r Loyd will
scarce be surprized at his L^d Ships uneasiness, and will, I am
persuaded, be happy in giving him every possible satisfaction.
I need not add that his Lordship will expect an Account of
your Proceedings by the first opportunity, that he may regu-
late his measures accordingly.
The affairs of America are now at their Crisis. Both
Houses of Parliament have been employed this week in read-
ing the Papers Laid before them by the Crown, which has
been done in the most secret manner by Excluding every
other Individual from their Walls, for, as the Private Corre-
spondence of the Governors and other Servants of the Crown
in the different Colonys makes a considerable part of the

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