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shewing his regard to the Doc^r for his long and faithful
Services. You will therefore please to Issue the proper Grant
upon the usual Terms.
The Justices having Certifyed the truth of the Facts in the
Petition Praying relief upon the fforfeited Recognizances His
Lordship leaves it to your Excellency to reduce the forfeiture
as much as you please.
It is with peculiar satisfaction his Lordship finds a Board of
Officers has been Constituted according to his Instructions
and that they have already met and intend to continue their
Meetings for the better Management of his Revenues as he
Expects the most salutary Effects from their Advice and
Assistance and the New Agent is, by his Commission, particu-
larly Enjoyned to Govern himself by their Regulations.
I am with all Due regard and Esteem
S^r
[July 18, 1768] Yo^r Excellencys
Most Obed' & Faithful Hble Serv^t
Hugh Hamersley.

[Hamersley to Sharpe.]

Serj^ts Inn London 20^th July 1768
Dr Sr
It is with equal reluctance Lord Baltimore dictates, and my
Pen transmits his present Commands. His early Connection
with your Excellency from his first stepping into Manhood,
The Attention and regard you have constantly paid him, your
unwearied Zeal to Promote the Welfare of his Province, the
Uninterrupted harmony which has ever Subsisted not only
between you and him, but between you and every Branch of
his Government and even every Individual in that Govern-
ment, and the very acceptable light in which your Services
have been constantly rec'd by your King and Country here,
all Concurr to make his Lordship wish that Connection might
have been Co-Extensive with your Lives, unless your own
better fortune had first Inclined you to Dissolve the Union.
But your Excellency is no Stranger to the Alliance some time
since made by His Lordships Sister with M^r Eden a Lieu^t in
the Coldstream Regiment of Guards and a younger Brother
of S^r John Eden an Antient Barr^t in the County of Durham.
A Similitude of Pursuits Joined to his Lordships Partiality for
his Sister naturally Led him to Entertain hopes of one Day
succeeding your Excellency ; hitherto his Lordship has resisted
every temptation, Except that Superior one which has so
Attached him to you, But the workings of Nature, the Merit
of his Brother in Law, to himself particularly, and the Sollici-

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