Correspondence of Governor Sharpe, 333

[Sharpe to Baltimore.]

To Lord Baltimore. Annapolis 21^st Oct^r 1766.
My Ld.
The Steward of the Mannour in Baltimore County called
My Ladys Mannour alias the Lords Gift containing about
10000 Acres having this Day informed me that Writs of
Ejectment have been brought against Three of the Tenants
by M^r Hall a Lawyer here who acts on behalf of the Heirs of
M^r Brerewood I dispatch this to Potowmack whence a Ship is
about to sail for London to advise your Ldp thereof & to
desire your Ldp will by the first Opportunity after your
Receipt of this Letter be pleased to send me a Copy of the
Bill that M^r Calvert told me had been filed in Chancery
against your Ldp by M^r Brerewood & of your Ldp's answer
thereto in order that I may communicate the same to your
Ldp's Attorney Gen^l here if the perusal thereof will enable
him the better to defend your Ldps Title to said Mannour
which as your Ldp will see by the inclosed Copy of a Letter I
wrote four years ago to M^r Calvert was after M^r Brerewoods
Death leased out to sundry Tenants by the Agent of your
Ldp's Father. If the Claimants can produce no Patent I do
not know how they will support their Pretensions, for no
Patent is recorded here if they can produce One the Point in
question will I apprehend then be whether the L^d Proprietary
may during his Life like the King grant Lands within this
Province in fee to his Wife contrary to the Law which holds
in the Case of All other Subjects. If your Ldp should upon
considering this Matter think it necessary to send the Attorney
General any particular Instructions for his Guidance in manag-
ing this Cause the sooner you do so the better that he may
know as early as possible what kind of Defence your Ldp
will choose to have made. As your Ldp will by a Vessel
ready to sail hence receive a Letter from me about other
Matters & also a Duplicate of this, & the Person by whom I
send this to Potowmack is impatient to depart I shall only add
that I remain with the utmost Respect.

[Sharpe to Baltimore.]

To Lord Baltimore. Annapolis 22^d Oct^r 1766.
My Lord
Having within these few Days received a Letter from M^r
Hamersley inclosing your Ldp's Instructions dated the 6^th of
August last by which your Ldp is pleased to revoke your
Instruction of the 7^th of Feb^ry 1765 by which I was restrained
from assenting to any Ordinary Lycence Bill but on certain

Letter Bk. IV