464 Correspondence of Governor Sharpe.

Letter Bk. V

for England the latter End of next Month. We have at last
finished with Col^o Lloyd at least so far as was possible there
being still many Outstanding Debts to be collected & in order
that he may collect them himself It was our opinion that he
had better continue in the Agency till next Michaelmas before
which time Your Ldp will be pleased to send a Commission
& full powers to such Gentleman as you may think proper to
be entrusted from that time with the management of Your
Ldps Revenue arising in this Province. Having in a Letter
I wrote to M^r Hamersley the Beginning of January desired
him to lay before Your Ldp a Copy of the last Minutes of the
Proceedings of the Commissioners impowered to run the
Boundary Lines by which Your Ldp would see that the Sur-
veyors having extended the East & West Line as far as the
Indians would permit were discharged I shall not trouble
Your Lordship with anything more on that Subject but must
apprize Your Lordship of an Affair that has given me a good
Deal of Concern & which I am afraid will cause here great
Uneasiness. In the Letter which I did myself the honour to
address to Your Ldp the 29^th of Oct^r last I informed Your
Ldp that in pursuance of Your Ldps pleasure signified to Me
in favour of the Rev^d M^r Alien & at his own Request I had
upon the Decease of the late Rector of S^t James's Parish in
this County granted a Lycence to M^r Alien to officiate in the
said Parish he continuing at the same time Rector of this,
whereupon he applied to the Vestry of that Parish for their
Consent to his holding both Parishes & some of them at least
agreed to his Request tho upon Condition that he should
afterwards sign such Articles as they may propose. Upon
his sounding afterwards the Vestry of S^t Annes he found
those that were present so averse to the Scheme that he
declined putting it to the question. Previous to the Vestry's
Meeting M^r Alien had it seems talk't on the Subject to M^r
Walter Dulany who was one of them & as the latter had then
said he did not think the two Vestries were impowered by the
Act of 1702 to do what was desired of them & dissuaded M^r
Alien from proposing it M^r Alien immediately attributed his
Miscarriage entirely to M^r Dulany & thereupon wrote me the
Letter which I transmitted the 27 of Nov^r by a Ship that was
just about to sail at the time I received it. As the Vestry
however had not made any formal Objection to M^r Aliens
officiating as a Curate in S^t James's while he continued Rector
of S^t Annes he engaged the Rev^d M^r Edmiston on whose
behalf Your Ldp lately wrote to Me at the Request of Lady
Essex to assist him in the Discharge of his Duty in the two
Parishes & I heard no more about the matter till we were
attending the Sale of the Mannours in S^t Marys County when