Correspondence of Governor Sharpe. 323

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up, & of the publick Encouragements which shall be given
thereto. We are Sir
Your most obedient Servants,
Dartmouth
Palmerston Ed: Eliot
John Roberts
Horatio Sharpe Esq^r
L^t Gov^r of Maryland

[Baltimore to Sharpe.]

Baltimore house August 2^d 1766
Sir
I received yesterday y^r letter of the 29^th of last May and I
dont doubt that as I have effectually now given you the power
to serve me, that you will give me great satisfaction. I no
sooner read the unanimous opinion of My Upp. House con-
cerning the Licences, but I imediately directed my Secretary
to prepare the same day an instruction to give you liberty
therein to Act as you and the Upp. House shall think fitt.
I desire that you will be pleased to observe what has been
mentioned to you in Relation to a Living for a particular
freind of mine here in England M^r Alien of Oxford. I pro-
pose he shall have one of the best and he will send a Deputy
from hence for him and in this for many reasons I desire y^r
Assistance in compleating
I am extreamly concernd to hear of that worthy Gentleman
M^r Keys Decease & I approve of y^r Appointment in his place.
With Regard to the Attention w^h y^r Excellency is so good
as to give to the Trifles I sent you they are surely not worth
it, but by some opportunity this year I shall send you some-
thing more elegant than I had time at M^r Jordans departure
to prepare. I expect y^r directions to y^r Brother Phillip, touch-
ing what I wrote to you of M^r Calverts Attention.
I am, with the greatest friendship and consideration
Y^r Excellencys most obed. hum^ble Serv^t
Excuse haste. F. Baltimore

Original.

[Sharpe to Baltimore.]

To Lord Baltimore. Annapolis 6^th Aug^st 1766.
My Ld
In a Letter I did myself the honour to address to your Ldp
the 19^th of last Month I acknowledged my Receipt of that
your Ldp had been pleased to favour me with the 13^th of May
but as the Ship was ready to sail when your Ldp's Letter was

Letter Bk. IV