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which I propose to do when the new Assembly meets about
the End of February should M^r Stewart succeed so far as to
procure a Dissent to the Acts Be so kind as to communicate
to Me the Substance of the Arguments advanced before the
Council & on what principles they determine for our Assembly
will very probably on such Event fall on some other Scheme
to prevent the Evil complained of. In the inclosed Letter I
I have remitted My Lord Bills of Exchange for £284 1 1 6 1/4
more received from the Purchasers of Anne Arundel Man-
nour. We could sell ho more than 897 3/4 Acres of the Man-
nour at Conegocheague & I much question whether Purchasers
will offer for those in Baltimore & S^t Marys County which are
to be next set up, & the Tenants it seems are so poor that
they cannot bid for their respective Tenements. I expect this
Letter will be presented to you by M^r Hugh Scott an Officer
in the 28^th Regiment who having served during the late War
in all the American Expeditions is now going to join his Regi-
ment in Ireland unless he can by exchanging or otherwise
procure another Commission or Appointment in North America
where I find he would choose to continue, he is a Nephew of
M^r Scotts Clerk of the Council here & if he should wait on
you with this I beg the favour of you to take some notice of
him.

Letter Bk. V

[Rev. Bennet Alien to Sharpe.]
To
His Excellency
Horatio Sharpe Esq^r
Sir
I take the Liberty of troubling your Excellency with a Very
Long Letter. The Importance of the Subject must plead my
Excuse. A Subject of no less Importance than a Vindication
of the Lord Proprietary's Supremacy over the Church in
Maryland, and of the Instructions which I have had the Honor
of Laying before your Excellency. Which Instructions if I
prove to be not only Exactly conformable to the Ecclesiastical
Laws of the Kingdom of England, But also in no Respect
dissonant or contrary to the Laws of Maryland, I flatter
Myself your Excellency can be under no Difficulty of putting
them into Execution.

The Constitution of the Church established in Mary-
land is explain'd in The fourth Section of the Royal
Charter, and Lord Baltimore is Declared Patron

"Also we do grant and confirm to the said Baron of
Baltimore his heirs and Assigns the Patronages and
Advowsons of all Churches which with the Increasing

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