542 Correspondence of Governor Sharpe.

Letter Bk. V

according to what shall then offer, & your Excellency will
please to receive it as an actual immediate Commission or as
Instructions from His Ldp for the particular Commission as
you will find it most effectual to answer His Ldps Intentions."
Col^o Lloyd having in Feb^ry last express't to me an earnest
Desire to be discharged of his Agent's Office which I then
press't him to hold till My Lord should himself appoint him a
Successor, I had no doubt but he would readily give it up at
a Moments Notice & therefore when M^r Allen waited on me
in Consequence of Letters to him which came inclosed in
yours to myself & desired that I would without Delay fill up
to him the blank Commission for the Agency (since I did not
think myself at liberty to confer on him the Commissarys
Office & he declined accepting that of Keeper of the Rent
Roll) I intimated to Col^o Lloyd that I was then authorized to
appoint him a Successor & that therefore he might resign at
the ensuing Lady Day or sooner if it was agreeable to him.
In Consequence of such Intimation Col^o Lloyd came over the
Bay to deliver up to his Successor such Papers relative to his
Office as it was proper the latter should have in his possession
but a Question having arisen whether the Revocation of his
Commission might not affect some Causes in which he as His
Ldps Agent w'as Plaintiff or Defendant particularly that of
Brerewoods I thought it incumbent on me to delay issuing
a Commission till I could procure the Attorney General's
Opinion, whereupon M^r Allen was pleased to write me the
following Note. "Sunday March 27 M^r Allens Compli-
ments to Governor Sharpe & desires to know whether the
Express is returned from over the Bay & begs to know the
Contents of the Attorney General's Opinion. M^r Hall has
farther declared his opinion that his Name may with the
Consent of Parties be made use of instead of Col^o Lloyds at
the next Court & that it is immaterial whether John a Nokes
or John a Stiles be the Defendant of My Lord's Title. M^r
Allen has been informed that his Enemies (in which Number
he flatters himself His Excellency is not included) would use
every possible Art & Evasion to set aside his Commission.
It was dropt likewise at M^r Carrolls Rout in public that he
may yet be disappointed. A Gentleman told him he knew
what was going forward, but these Reports did not then affect
him which now have given him the greatest Concern. Upon
reviewing the Copy of M^r Hamersley's Letter to your Excel-
lency & a Letter from himself & from My Lord to M^r Allen
it is very evident that the Best Place in the Province was
intended His Ldp desires & expects M^r Allen maybe imme-
diately provided for & the better it is & the sooner it reaches
him, His Ldp will be the better pleased. M^r Hamersley in