Instruction of youth here, Your Indifattigable care & paines
for Security & Defence of this Province your noble and Gen-
erous Treatment and Assistance to us & Candid Interpreta-
cons of what wee Loyally and Affectionately intended deserves
better words Then wee have to Express our selves by
Let this Noble Sr at preoent be accepted that wee are truely
Sencible of the Same and shall not bee wanting in due
acknowledgments at all times Beseeching you still to retayne
us in your good opinion and to Use your Intrest with their
Sacred Mats to give their gratious assent and grant for those
good things wch by your Exncys happy & good Advice wee
have presumed to Petition their Mats for, for propogation of
ffree Schooles in your Mats Province of Maryland
Signed p Ordr
C Lomax Clk Assembly.
The Honbl: their Majts Covncill doe agree to and Joyne with
the house of Burgesses in the said Message of Thankes to his
Exncy
An Acept of the Guifts of the severall Burgesses of the
house for & Towards the building the free Schoole are as
follows Vizt
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