398 Correspondence of Governor Sharpe.

Letter Bk. IV

a Pretence for their postponing all farther Proceedings at least
till the next Session. As soon as I had perused the Copies of
M^r Brerewoods Bill in Chancery against your Ldp & your
Ldps & M^r Calverts joint answer thereto, I put them into M^r
Dulanys hands in order that he might consider them before
they were delivered to the Attorney General as I had before
desired M^r Dulany to assist the latter in defending the Action
brought against your Ldp by Order of M^r Brerewood for the
Land in Baltimore County that has been commonly destin-
guish't by the Name of My Lady's Mannour. The Trial in the
Provincial Court is I understand to come on next October
when M^r Dulany & the Attorney General think the Plaintiff
must be non-suited. As to the Report which your Ldp speak-
ing of M^r Brerewoods Claim takes occasion to mention I know
nothing of it, nor do I apprehend it would easily gain Credit.
It is indeed surprizing to hear what stories are sometimes
circulated here not only respecting Persons & Transactions at
a Distance but also about Persons on the Spot by whom such
Stories may easily be disproved & confuted, & I am sorry I
must at this time trouble your Ldp concerning One which I
thought myself obliged to take some Notice of. It seems
when M^r Jordan was sometime ago at Col^o Barnes's in S^t
Mary's County one Alien Thomas who was there took occasion
to say that he had some years ago heard the present Attorney
General speak of your Ldp in the most disrespectful Terms
before a Publick Company in order as M^r Jordan apprehended
to court popularity. M^r Jordan having upon his Return
hither communicated to me what he had heard I thought it
incumbent on me to advise M^r Goldsborough the Attorney
General thereof who thereupon wrote me a Letter expressing
the greatest Surprize & Concern that such a malicious Story
should have been propagated at the same time denying in the
most positive & solemn manner that he had ever spoke of
your Ldp otherwise than in the most respectful manner &
defying any Person to produce a single Instance of his ever
behaving otherwise than as a Warm Advocate for your Ldps
Government, upon my Receipt of such Letter I shew'd it to
M^r Jordan who one Day during the Races here last Month
brought M^r Thomas to my House in order to repeat what he
had said to him, whereupon I desired him to commit it to
Writing when he persevered in what he had before asserted to
M^r Jordan excepting that he now said the Declaration he
alluded to had been made by M^r Goldsborough a few Weeks
after he returned hither from the Temple which was I think
about the year 1761 not in a publick place but at his Fathers
House, no Person being present except his Father the Com-
missary General, one M^r Tho^s Goldsborough a first Cousin,