460 Correspondence of Governor Sharpe.

Letter Bk.III

my part be entirely satisfied tho I did indeed promise to
recommend in case of a Vacancy another Gentleman. I shall
agreeable to your Desire avoid determining the Contest about
the Inspector in S^t James's till I return from Baltimore &
wishing the Indisposition that confines you at present to your
Chamber may be of short Continuance I am Sir
Y^r very humb. Serv^t
H S

Letter Bk. V

[Sharpe to Hamersley.]

Copy of Letter to M^r Hamersley. Annapolis 27^th Nov^r
1767 transmitted by Capt Davies.
D^r S^r
It gives me great Uneasiness to have such an Occasion as I
have at present to trouble you with another Letter so soon
after that I addressed to you the 25^th Inst but a Disappoint-
ment M^r Alien met with at a Vestry held in this Parish the
24^th (of which I had received no Intimation till he informed
me of it by the inclosed Letter) having as he told me this
morning determined him to write to you on the Subject, I
cannot let the Ship sail without writing to you also. Since I
I saw M^r Allen M^r Walt^r Dulany has been likewise with me &
on my giving him an Intimation of the Information I had
received he assured me that Whatever Arguments he might
have urged to dissuade M^r Alien from Applying to the Vestry
of this Parish for their Consent to his holding this Living
together with that of S^t James's he is confident nothing could
have dropt from him reflecting in any manner whatever on
His Ldp or derogating in the least from His Prerogative, &
that when he found M^r Allen was at all Events resolved to
bring the Matter before the Vestry & at once as he appre-
hended oblige them to say Yes or No he was so far from
endeavouring to prejudice M^r Worthington or any other
Vestryman against the Proposal that he never spoke to any
of them tho he acknowledges that he is himself of Opinion the
Two Parishes cannot be legally held by one Rector. All the
Conversation they had on the Subject was it seems at M^r
Dulany's House previous to the Vestry's Meeting at which he
declined attending & he seemed much surprized that I had
been apprized of it, tho if M^r Alien had not wrote to Me I
must I find have soon heard of it. Nothwithstanding what
has passed & the Obstinacy of M^r Worthington whose Influ-
ence in the Lower House as well as that of M^r Johnson is very
great I find M^r Alien is fully persuaded he shall by some
means or other be able to carry his Point & that the Assembly
will never trouble themselves about the Matter while I for my