520 Correspondence of Governor Sharpe.

Letter Bk. V

any such Error hereafter I should be glad to have a List from
His Ldps nominating the Successors to each Office that might
become vacant for I really do not wish to have the nomination
left to Myself, there are very few for whom I have a great
Regard, & tho I think them as deserving of His Ldps Favour
as any I will not incur a suspicion of being influenced in the
Disposal of Offices by partiality or Personal Attachment.
Mess^rs Fendall & Clagget Two of the Clergymen that were
ordainedlast Summer & brought Recommendatory Letters from
you are as yet without Livings, but as several of the Rectors
of Parishes are old & infirm there will doubtless be Vacancies
within about a year & half or two years for both those Gentlⁿ
& M^r Caswell also nor shall I venture to fill up S^t James's
Parish till I am favoured with an Answer to my late Letters.
I shall punctually observe what you say against dividing
Parishes hereafter & as there has been only one Instance of it
during the fifteen years I have been in the Govern^t I have not
much to answer for on that Acco^t As you intimate in your
Lett^r that you were to have a meeting in a few Days with
Mess^rs Penn or their Agent to adjust & settle the Form of the
Return to be made by the Commissioners here with respect
to the Dividing Lines we shall I suppose put off our Meeting
till we hear from you again on the Subject as your Transmis-
sion of the Form agreed on might perhaps prevent Alterca-
tion here & be a means of our Concluding the Business very
speedily. I delivered Ld Straffords Letter to M^r Ridout
who will answer it in due time. I have not yet seen M^r
Huggit, should he come hither I shall readily give him all the
Countenance & Assistance in my power. The inclosed State
relative to Talbot Mannour being pretty full I have little to
trouble you with on that Subject but must observe to you that
the parts destinguished by this Mark t are from Information
& not drawn from any Authentic Records. I have likewise
understood that after Col^o Talbots Conviction in Virginia the
then Ld Baltimore ordered that the Mannour should be sold
for the Benefit of the Family but if he did 'twas never done
nor does it appear that any Step was then taken towards seiz-
ing it. Perhaps you may discover something relative to it in
the Collection of Letters that passed between Ld Charles &
the People in power here at that period which perhaps by
reason of the Revolution that so soon after ensued might not
appear on Record here. How far the Outlawry in Ireland
said to have been in 1696 will operate to extinguish the
Familys Claim you can best tell but as to the Attainder in
1716 there was evidently a Misnomer, the Person attainted
being called Robert & the Jury of Inquest that was impanelled
in Cecil County pursuant to the Order of the Com^rs for