410 Correspondence of Governor Sharpe.

Letter Bk. V

nient to this Parish which he now holds If I can prevail on
the Rector of either of the Parishes contiguous to this to
resign & go over the Bay I will notwithstanding the Act of
1702 of which I sometime ago apprized Your Ldp offer M^r
Alien an Induction to such adjacent Parish also or leave it to
him to make his Terms with such of the Probationers as he
may desire me to induct tho I really think that such Transac-
tion will not be long a Secret & am apprehensive the Assembly
will by making a Stir about it render M^r Alien uneasy. At
the time M^r Alien arrived I gave him an Account of the
Parishes then vacant, the best of which was S^t Lukes in
Queen Annes County of the Annual Value of about which
I had kept vacant from the time your Ldp was pleased to
give me an Intimation of your Desire to provide for M^r Alien
that Parish however M^r Alien being averse to settling on the
Eastern Shore declined accepting & signified to Me that he
would prefer this tho it was of less Value wherefore in order
to gratify him I immediately presented the then Rector of this
Parish to S^t Lukes. By the List of the Parishes Your Lord-
ship will see there are some in Baltimore Prince Georges &
Frederick Counties that are of considerable Value, the Rec-
tors of those called S^t Johns in Baltimore & Queen Anne's in
Prince Georges are old & infirm & M^r Bacon too who has the
best in the Province is now advanced in years & declining so
that in all probability one or other of the most desirable
Livings will e'er long become vacant, & the Moment either of
them falls I will make him an Offer of it & if in the mean
time One of the Rectors in the contiguous Parishes can be
removed I will as I have already told Your Lordship either
give M^r Alien an Induction thereto or leave it to him to
recommend a Successor & make Terms with him which is all
I can do, tho He may perhaps think otherwise for I have
observed that Gentlem^ll on their first Arrival here are apt to
think a Governor might do whatever he pleases. I can truly
say I have from his first Arrival been studious out of respect
to Your Ldp's Recommendation to do M^r Alien every kind
Office in my power & to make this place agreeable to him but
from some Hints he has dropt I am apprehensive he is a little
disappointed in his Expectations. Col^o Lloyd having lately
signified to us that he is now as well prepared as he can be to
make a final Settlement of his Agents Accounts we have
desired him to attend here for that purpose the Beginning of
September when M^r Dulany will return hither from his Sum-
mer's Residence & M^r Jordan be more at leisure than at
present to give Attention to that Business.
M^r Charles Goldsborough the late Commissary General
having died about the Middle of last Month I have at the