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another Gentleman we have in View that we have reasons to
hope would answer our expectation in the meantime we shall
wait with patience until we receive your answer, and do rest
assured of your favourable answer to this our requisition and
as our future hapeniss so greatly depends on your appointment
we shall think ourselves under the Strongest Engagements
Bound to pray for your present & future hapeness and to
contribute every thing in our power for the atainment thereof
and are with great defference your Excellency's most
Obed^t and very Humble
Servants
Teague Riggen
Thomas Bruff
James Gunby
Tho. Hayward
Michel Cluff Wording. Joshua Merrill

Letter Bk. IV

[Sharpe to Baltimore.]

To Lord Baltimore. Annapolis 7^th Decem^r 1766.
My Ld
Having lately received the Letter Your Ldp did me the
honour to write to Me the 2^d of August last I embrace the
earliest Opportunity to express my Acknowledgments for the
same & to inform Your Ldp that I had before this came to
hand communicated to the Gentlemen of the. Council the
Instructions Your Ldp was pleased to give the 6^th of that
Month on the Subject of Ordinary Lycences at which they
expressed great satisfaction. As it is now five Months since
I wrote to my Brother Philip desiring him to pay to Your
Ldps Order the Sum of £100, which in pursuance of Your
Ldps Direction I had before desired him to pay Annually, to
Captain Eden I have no doubt but he has ee'r this time com-
plied with my Request & will hereafter be punctual in paying
the same to Your Ldps Order. I observe what Your Ldp is
pleased to write with regard to a good Living being pre-
served for the Benefit of Your Ldps Friend M^r Alien of
Oxford & shall not fail to give Your Ldp the earliest Notice
thereof when any of considerable Value shall become vacant
but as the bestowing a Living here on a Clergyman resident
in England leaving it to him to send hither a Curate to
officiate in his stead is a new Measure & might perhaps if
known here be deemed contrary to the Spirit of the Acts of
Assembly that provide for the Clergymens Maintenance Your
Ldp will I hope excuse me for intimating how necessary it will
be that the Curate so to be appointed be a Person of approved
honour, otherwise he might refuse to pay his Rector accord-