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Government it was made payable to Lord Baltimore and his
name was used because of his office, and is descriptive of it.
So when the king & Queen was named the Designation was
for the same purpose and his Lordship with Respect to this
Matter stands in the same Relation as Successor to Queen
Ann, as King William and Queen Mary did To Lord Charles.
I am running into no Refinement. I am Suggesting no more
than the general Opinion and the Practice of the Province
have always corresponded with, and further heads but I own
I can't guess upon what Principle his Lordship may be justly
considered as representing or Succeeding the King or Queen
with Respect to one Law and not to another.
The Recognition Specified in the 26th Canon that the Kings
Majesty under God is the only Supreme Governor of this
Realm and of all other his Highness's Dominions and Countries
as well in all Spiritual and Ecclesiastical Things as Temporal
will not now, I believe, be call'd in Question. If then Lord
Baltimore is Consider'd as the Successor of Queen Ann
with Respect to all other powers of this Government, his
Supremacy Over the Church evidently Stands on the same
Foundation as well in Virtue of such Succession as of the
absolute Dominion with which he is endowed.
The King's Power of dispensing with Pluralities is declared
to be unlimited by the following Clause of 21. H. 8. C. 29.
" Provided that it shall be Lawfull to every spiritual
Person, being Chaplain to the King, to whom it shall
Please the King to give any Benefices or Promotions
Spiritual to what number soever it be, to accept and
Take the same without incurring the Penalty and For-
feiture of the Statute
That is, According to the Comment Gib: 909. Salk. 162
he may Accept and take the Same without previous Dispen-
sation, which the King himself as Supreme Ordinary hath
power to grant and his Presentation of his own Chaplain
imports the granting of it.
If the Powers of this Government now rested in the Crown,
I believe no body will deny that the King would be Authoris'd
hereby to present one of his Chaplains, to two Livings or
more, and so to do According to the Comment without a
Previous Dispensation: and it can as little be made a Ques-
tion of from the foregoing Premises, that Lord Baltimore has
a Right as Patron Paramount and Supreme Ordinary of the
Church To present one of his Chaplains (of which number I
am) to two Livings, as he shall think fit, which Presentation
has in itself the force of, and the Conditions implied in, a Dis-
pensation, and imports the Granting of it. The Right of the
King and the Proprietary stands on the Same footing and
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